by Middleton Stream Team | Nov 26, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for 11-28-14 As the ground freezes and Thanksgiving and blasphemous Black Fridays approach, Closeteers’ minds drift back four centuries to November 1620 when the brave and foolish-for-sailing-so-late Pilgrims arrived at Cape Cod. [pullquote]”We,...
by Middleton Stream Team | Nov 2, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for November 7, 2014 Last Friday Middleton’s Council on Aging/Conservation Commission walkers hiked up the old rail bed built through the floodplain of Boston Brook in 1848, the same year clean water came to Boston from Lake Cochituate, Natick. Now all...
by Middleton Stream Team | Oct 28, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
by Middleton Stream Team | Oct 7, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for October 10, 2014 The weekly Water Closet below entitled WATER WORKS was published by the Middleton Stream Team in October 2007. We are repeating it again this week with “colorful” added to the title. Plants in most places on the planet are not...
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 30, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for October 3, 2014 Water in its unseen state has been rarely mentioned in the Water Closet’s nine years. The other day talented Middleton artisan1 Carl Close called an old Stream Teamer and invited him to watch his steam boiler and engine, no toys, in...
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 23, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for September 26, 2014 Teddy rowed and sailed with his children on Oyster Bay; Franklin and Eleanor looked out on waters from Hyde Park above the Hudson River to Campobello, New Brunswick. After stints as Assistant Secretaries of the Navy the men were...