by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 12, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 15, 2014 IT ALL FLOWS DOWNHILL By Arthur McKee1 In May of this year, I spent about a week in my home state of Vermont visiting family and old friends. The harsh winter had dragged on into a cold spring with late snowmelt and delayed leaf out. ...
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 5, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 8, 2014 Minnesotans used to boast on their vehicle license plates that they lived in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Maine, one time part of Massachusetts is said to have 6000 lakes and ponds1 and 3,500 miles of tidal coastline. An old Stream...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 30, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 1, 2014 This mid-July, in north Lynnfield along the Ipswich River the Middleton Council on Aging/Conservation Commission hikers walked a little known path; some places no path at all, in the shade of tall eastern white pines.1 While the same...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 22, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for July 25, 2014 DOCKSIDE OCEANOGRAPHY: TAKING THE PULSE OF THE OCEAN by Nick Record* The sea is a weird potion of invisible magic. I’m a scientist, and a very geeky one at that, and I’m always amazed at what can be learned with...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 15, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
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...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 11, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
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...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 1, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
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...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 24, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
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...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 24, 2014 | Events
Stream Teamers and supporters prepared and then cycled on the “Machine” in the Chief Wills Day parade in Middleton. The Stream Team was proud to participate and display this ergonomic wonder, all people powered vehicle which featured 10 people peddling and...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 17, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for June 20, 2014 Usually our weekly closet essay is written first, and then a suitable photo sought. This week Stream Team photographer Judy Schneider has taken the lead with a domestic scene of beauty. The feathered family photographed is on and around...
