A ROUND-ABOUT WAY TO SUDDEN POND

A ROUND-ABOUT WAY TO SUDDEN POND

Water Closet for July 18, 2014 A stone, little seen by humans, marks where North Reading, North Andover, and Middleton meet.  Six feet high, roughly triangular in cross section, it reminds us of an obelisk sculpted by Mother Nature and later found and used by man.  On...
POND LILY TIME

POND LILY TIME

Water Closet for July 14, 2014 ( It is white water lily time again. The following Water Closet piece was published in the Tri-Town Transcript on July 4, 2008.  Visit Stearns Pond in Harold Parker State Forest to see a mile long watery field of these beauties or almost...

WHALING ENSHRINED?? By Bob Hicks*

Water Closet for July 7, 2014 By the time you are reading this the restored last surviving wooden whaleship, Charles W. Morgan, will be at the State Pier in New Bedford, MA in early July.  The Morgan will be moving on to Boston July 18-20 to tie up alongside the USS...
LAYERS OF LIFE

LAYERS OF LIFE

Water Closet for June 27, 2014 The other day on the Middleton Stream Team’s annual June paddle down river we were delighted by the lush green canyon with walls of swamp dogwood, reed-canary grass, and a half dozen other wetland plants.  The dogwood is now in full...