by Middleton Stream Team | 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 Middleton Stream Team | 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 Middleton Stream Team | 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...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jan 27, 2018 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for February 2, 2018 The old Closeteer has lived near the coast of the Gulf of Maine for three quarters of a century. His playground as a boy and now when clamming is where the continent meshes with the ocean. He experienced this wondrous...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jan 12, 2018 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for January 19, 2018 In the last year of the second millennium beavers found a brook in the northern tip of Middleton. They heard and felt the water flowing out of a large red maple swamp that extended into Boxford and North...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jan 5, 2018 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for January 12, 2018 [pullquote]”Otters eat perch, catfish, crayfish, minnows, turtles, snakes and even lamprey eels. In their quests for food and in play otters surface about every 30 seconds for air.”[/pullquote]What common local...
by Middleton Stream Team | Dec 23, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for December 29, 2017 [pullquote]”Supposedly, the Hooded merganser is the mildest tasting of this group of foul fowls, but I think I’ll have my fish straight off of the hook, thank you.”[/pullquote] A handsome small duck, the...
by Middleton Stream Team | Dec 9, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for December 15, 2017 [pullquote]” The cows, cats, and Artie’s horse are long gone. Wildlife is thriving. The native artifacts and mounds are still there but are overgrown and not easily found” [/pullquote] A few days...
by Middleton Stream Team | Dec 2, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for December 8, 2017 The Middleton Historical Commission decided in 2016 to mark the site of an important industry here that was started three centuries ago on what is now called Emerson Brook. A dam was built; a mill pond...
by Middleton Stream Team | Nov 25, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for December 1, 2017 [pullquote]”Muskrats, like most rodents, have a high reproductive rate. This far north a healthy female in a good environment may have upwards of 3 litters of 6 annually, but here these youngsters don’t mature until they...
