by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 18, 2013 | Water Closet Blog
Once again, Pike relates a fascinating story from Arthur McKee about a traveling experience that Arthur had in August, 1983 while driving through the Great Basin’s mountains and plains in a van with other profs and grad students from Oregon State University. They encounter a seemingly impassible lake that has flooded the highway in front of them only to witness a pickup truck do what they would have thought to be an impossible drive across the lake. The secret of how the pickup truck is able to drive across the lake will surprise readers.
by Roger Talbot | Sep 17, 2013 | News
On June 22, members of the COA, CC and Middleton Stream Team, enjoyed the comraderie and experience of clearing the Pike Messenger Trail with Pike (1st row, 2nd from left), as a way to celebrate his birthday.
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 10, 2013 | Water Closet Blog
In this weeks Water Closet, Pike writes about historian, Daniel K. Richter’s book “Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America”. It is not a happy story and deals with the unending skirmishes, wars, and broken treaties, between the native american indians and the European settlers from the late 1500s to the mid 1800s on the continent east of the Mississippi. It is revisionist history that is sure to raise controversy with readers.
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 3, 2013 | Water Closet Blog
In this week’s Water Closet, Pike relates a human interest story from heavy equipment operator, Leon Rubchinuk, regarding a rescue mission that shows a caring for other creatures on this planet that should be inspirational for all readers.
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 27, 2013 | Water Closet Blog
In this weeks Water Closet, Pike relates another fascinating story from Arthur McKee about his time spent in Alaska as a researcher in the 1960’s where he has the opportunity to see view some of the most beautiful and fragile crystalline structures found on earth buried deep in the permafrost. The crystals are formed naturally in caverns that were dug deep into the permafrost during the 1940’s and 50’s ostensibly to hold food supplies to support oil exploration. Given the size and depth of the caverns and the fact that they were dug during the hight of the cold war, one is left wondering whether they were dug for purposes other than food storage. Perhaps one of the readers could shed further light on this mystery. Regardless, I think it will make for enjoyable reading for all readers.
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 24, 2013 | Article
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by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 23, 2013 | Water Closet Blog
In this weeks Water Closet, Pike offers a different perspective on what are often called “invasive species”. The term itself often raises fears of some foreign plant species taking over our landscape at the expense of native plant species. Purple loosestrife is one example that raised such fears a decade age, however those fears did not materialize and Purple Loosestrife today is on the wane, whether thru man’s intervention or the natural balance of nature is left for the readers conjecture. The story makes for interesting reading and may even influence how people think about “invasive species”.
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 18, 2013 | Featured Article
The following Water Closet, written by Pike Messenger, is a wonderful and fitting tribute to the efforts of The Middleton Stream Team who worked tirelessly over the last ten plus years to transform five forgotten and overgrown sites along the Ipswich River into clean, inviting and beautiful public spaces highlighting the hidden jewel flowing through our community
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 14, 2013 | Water Closet Blog
In this week’s Water Closet, Pike relates a story by forestry researcher, Arthur McKee of his surreal encounter with a moose in Alaska at temperatures between minus 50 and 55 degrees. The story is a testament to the adaptability and beauty of nature. Unfortunately, Arthur did not have a camera with him at the time, but his story paints a word picture that I think will amaze and delight readers.
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 6, 2013 | Water Closet Blog
On Sunday afternoon July 28, 2013 Middleton lost one of its most energetic citizens. Rita M. (McGilloway) Kelley, 86, longtime friend of the Stream Team and almost anyone else who ever met her, died. How can we relate her to water, our subject?
