Gettysburg Battlefield, Hershey’s Chocolate Factory (when you could still go in to the actual production floor), Three Mile Island (before its little oops). Not a field trip, but we drove through Baltimore’s Inner Harbor area before it was redone - garbage and rats and rotting wharves, oh my.
Welcome to bluesky from another MA resident here!! And thanks for all you’ve been doing. I love all those things you cite, but my personal favorite is how you’re getting after the towns refusing to comply with the MBTA Communities Act - please persist!!
Intensity. Stupid auto correct
God mode inTension, love it.
What a play on that 3rd goal by Czechia, holy crap. I have no connection Czechia but I about went thru the ceiling watching that one.
One of my responses seems to have vanished: yes, the green line with be running in the summer
Also, the closest stop to Fenway Park is Kenmore Station, not Fenway Station. Confusing, welcome to Boston. there’s four green line branches, all in the same tunnel downtown, but branch out west of either Copley (E splits off) or Kenmore (B,C, and D diverge) (there’s no A).
Oh, for summer you’ll be fine, they’ll be done. someone noted Coolidge Corner - good idea, fun area for little kids. The Commonwealth is super close to Fenway but the CC places will be cheaper. Be sure to note the different branches of Green Line that your hotel is on, wherever you end up.
If you’re coming between now and Dec 22, try to book a room within walking distance, because the Green Line will be shut down for that stretch. That means the T - usually the best way to/from Fenway —will not work. Don‘t even think about driving to/from Fenway, it’ll drive you mad.
Thanks for posting this
If you get the chance, could you link to whichever site you got this from? For those of us with CFPRO (compulsive floor plan review obsession). Thx
Richard Cromwell
My wife also shares Dump’s birthday, and she is well and truly pissed off about it.
Marker in Fairhaven, MA, USA. Placed by Dr Shineaki Hinohara of Japan to commemorate Fairhaven’s role as temporary home of Manjiro Nakahama, the first Japanese person to reach the eastern USA.
IKEA connection item, misleadingly described as a Nevets by a bored Blueskyer.
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut:
I’m Nevets, one of those weird little connector thingies; at the end of every project you have either three too many of me (yay) or one too few (arrrgggh).
LOTS of eco-research in NE on this theme that’d be of use to the Europeans. (Guardian writer probably knows this and it just didn’t get into the article.). Any walk in the New England woods reveals ample evidence of this history - iconic stone walls, bldg foundations, etc.
Great article. Precedent in the New England region of the US. Huge land clearing (>80% of all land) prior to 1860s, followed by huge farm abandonment (~50-ish% of all land) in the next 80-ish years. Some sprawl re-encroachment since, but most of the previously abandoned land is still forested.
The Blue Book breaks down both by line and by station
