by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 7, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for July 10, 2015 [pullquote]”Pond lilies provide food, shade, protection, substrate for small creatures and perhaps even aesthetic delights as clouds above us do.” [/pullquote](It is white water lily time again. The following Water Closet...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 30, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for July 3, 2015 [pullquote]”It had two plywood planks, one each side, attached to a lance shaped, pointed at both ends, ½ inch plywood bottom.”[/pullquote] Boat designer Philip C. Bolger lived until his death at 82 in 2009 ten leagues...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 23, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for June 26, 2015 [pullquote]”The tree we admired was a great robust ball of dark green a hundred-feet in diameter poised above a sturdy trunk, sixteen-feet in circumference at waist height.”[/pullquote]Fred Rossi’s fine table, made from the...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 16, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for June 19, 2015 [pullquote] “It is as if the Mediterranean Sea had just been discovered,” King said. “It’s a huge body of water”.[/pullquote] As a boy the old Closeteer slept beneath a large Mercator projection map of the world. His family like most...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 9, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for June 12, 2015 [pullquote]”It was in this area, then called “The Farms” of Salem, where our town began, and Friday we started and ended our walk. “[/pullquote]2015 AD. For almost 400 years English has been spoken here by the self proclaimed...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 2, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for June 5, 2015 KAYAKS [pullquote]”Except for the going and coming in cars, thousands can now enjoy our waters at little cost without leaving sound and exhaust fumes in their wakes.”[/pullquote] On drives around the watershed from March to...
by Middleton Stream Team | May 26, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for May 29, 2015 [pullquote]” In his wanderings in places around our towns still unvisited by earth moving machines he has learned how to meander easily without paths.”[/pullquote]The old Closeteer left the paved road of a new subdivision...
by Middleton Stream Team | May 20, 2015 | Events
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by Middleton Stream Team | May 19, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for May 22, 2015 [pullquote]”In Middleton the tributaries, from upriver down, are Flint Brook, Punchards Brook, Middleton Brook, Emerson Brook, Boston Brook, and Nichols Brook.”[/pullquote]At the turn of the millennium the three year old...
by Middleton Stream Team | May 12, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for May 15, 2015 [pullquote] ” After the three or four eggs hatch, the hungry, fast growing, noisy chicks, and food hustling parents will greatly add to the domestic sights and sounds.”[/pullquote]The Middleton Council on...
