by Middleton Stream Team | May 6, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for May 9, 2014 Almost two centuries of railroads have changed our continent and the world. In America internal combustion engines on paved roads have largely passed them by. In eastern Massachusetts the web of rail beds now lie relatively silent...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 29, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for May 5, 2014 What a very strange place is the Salton Sea in southern California. Off and on for many thousands of years it was not a sea at all. Then in 1905 manmade canals to irrigate its desert land received flood waters from the mighty Colorado...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 22, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 25, 2014 Back in late winter we fretted from afar about droughts and fires in magnificent, one thousand mile long, California, a state with mountains four times Massachusetts’s highest, and Death Valley several hundred feet below sea level. ...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 15, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 18, 2014 On March 11, 2011 the tsunami came ashore and surged far inland along the low northeast coast of Honshu, Japan. The power plant at Fukushima was severely damaged. Radiation still leaks from it three years later. This story continues...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 14, 2014 | Activities
(See slideshow below) On a sunny April afternoon approximately seventy people, young to old, headed out on the trail from Lake Street around Middleton Pond. First stop was a lesson in tree identification (hemlock, spruce, red pine and white pine). Then we engaged the...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 10, 2014 | Activities
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by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 9, 2014 | Events
Middleton Earth Day Festival – May 3rd, 2014 (rain date May 17th) , 1-4PM. Creighton Pond Camp, 210 Essex St. Middleton. Following a very successful Earth Day Festival last year at the Creighton Pond Day Camp, an exciting new venue, the Middleton Stream Team...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 8, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 11, 2014 Last week a Closeteer received an old fashioned letter via snail mail from a farmer friend for two-thirds of a century. They went to school together in the “Pioneer Valley”, more appropriately called the Connecticut Valley. Both were...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 3, 2014 | Featured Article
Save The Date! Middleton Earth Day Festival – May 4th, 2014 (rain date May 18th) , 1-4PM. Creighton Pond Camp, 210 Essex St. Middleton. The Middleton Earth Day Festival has an exciting new venue for this year! In partnership with Creighton Pond day camp in...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 1, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 4, 2014 Last week as the thick ice on Middleton Pond finally melted around its edges, two old Closeteers from Middleton drove northeast along the river to catch a late afternoon low tide in Ipswich. They said they were seeking clams but we know...
