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...
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 16, 2014 | News
We are happy to announce that Middleton Stream Team has received official 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status from the IRS.
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 16, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for September 19, 2014 “Why is the land so up and down”, the boy asked his grandpa who year round, almost daily, roams the undeveloped forests and fields of Middleton and beyond, especially along its streams and river. [pullquote]” It obviously...
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 9, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for September 9, 2014 THERE WAS A MEETIN HERE TONITE1 As high dark clouds came from the southwest, three octogenarians of the Middleton Stream Team met to carpool to the annual meeting of the Ipswich River Watershed Association at an estate down river in...
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 2, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for September 5, 2014 On June 8th Kristen Thompson of North Andover witnessed a hit-and-run accident on Essex Street in Middleton. She stopped her car and ran to the victim, a female snapping turtle. Nearby on the asphalt were eggs that had oozed from...
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 26, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 29, 2014 Juanita, an Inca girl, is permanently cold yet warm in appearance. Mountaineers Johan Reinhard and Miguel Zarate found her near the top of Peruvian mountain Ampato, a god to her sacrificers. Ampato is one of many gods in the Andes; a...
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 20, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 22, 2014 IT ALL FLOWS DOWNHILL (PART II) by Arthur McKee1 (Ecologist McKee’s Part I of this essay ended here last week after listing some of the many successes arising from the Clean Water Act. Here in part II he resumes.) There are some...
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 16, 2014 | Events
The Middleton Stream Team Nature Photo Contest is now underway! Middleton has miles of brooks, streams and the Ipswich River and acres of wetlands. A wide variety of wild creatures such as frogs, turtles, beavers, river otters and great blue herons are frequently...