by Roger Talbot | Apr 20, 2018 | Activities, Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 27, 2018 On a cool clear Saturday afternoon about fifty people ages three to eighty-five hiked the ups and downs of glacial sculpted land near fast running Boston Brook. They walked, some of the smallest being...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 10, 2018 | Activities
Middleton’s 11th Earth Day Festival, April 29th With the generous offer from Creighton Pond Day Camp, the Earth Day Festival will be held again in their beautiful location on Essex Street in Middleton on Sunday, April 29th from 12-3 in the afternoon....
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 9, 2018 | Activities
On Saturday, April 7, after a cool and dreary morning, the sun came out to warm approximately 50 hikers (adults and children). These hikers followed Middleton Stream Team members along the banks of the swiftly running Boston Brook and paused at the dam ruins of...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 6, 2018 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 13, 2018 Two decades ago on a card table in lovely Warner, New Hampshire, two attractive book covers caught the old Closeteer’s eye. At that Saturdays Farmers Market, Laurette was selling her husband David Carroll’s Swamp Walker’s Journal...
by Roger Talbot | Mar 20, 2018 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for March 23, 2018 [pullquote]”What a wonder are the lands set aside for us all by conservation trusts such as TTOR and Greenbelt.”[/pullquote] During the night of the 7th and 8th of March the second storm in a week...
by Roger Talbot | Mar 16, 2018 | Events
The Middleton Stream Team 2017 Nature Photo Contest awards event was held on March 11, 2018. The venue was the Historical Museum on Pleasant St. Many photographers, family and Stream Team members attended the event in order to congratulate the artists and look over...
by Roger Talbot | Mar 16, 2018 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for March 16, 2018 The TV weather folks had warned us for a week that a storm was heading our way from the southwest with impending complications coming up the East Coast and down from the Canadian Shield. Thursday evening,...
by Roger Talbot | Feb 9, 2018 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for February 16, 2018 [pullquote]”Tom had always impressed them with his disciplined style. Wearing hip boots, he kneeled on the flat and thoroughly got all of legal size from the upturned clogs of mud”[/pullquote]...
by Roger Talbot | Feb 3, 2018 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for February 9, 2018 [pullquote]”From the 17th century on the land eventually called Maine had more than its share of ambitious exploiters and land grabbers, the most ruthless operating out of England and its New World center in...
by Roger Talbot | Jan 29, 2018 | Activities
The Stream Team’s winter hike, held in partnership with Essex County Greenbelt, and led by Pike Messenger, explored areas in North Middleton. The hike started on the Bay Circuit Trail off North Liberty St and looped back via a large, ice covered beaver...
