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Franklin Park needs more sheep

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The BPL has put up a collection of Boston post cards from the early to mid-1900s, including this one, from back in the day when sheep roamed free in Franklin Park.

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I have some of those, unused.

As soon as I find some uncanceled stamps of the appropriate time periods, I can mail some post cards with great stock tips, warnings of sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and other sage advice received too late.

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how else were they going to cut all that grass?

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They've got a lot more up on a display in the lobby of the new building at the central branch. Some really great stuff there.

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I actually had no idea that Huntington Ave used to cut right through Copley like that, or that it was redesigned so recently. Hey, I'm of a younger generation, sod off. ;)

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Yeah it's interesting that Copley square didn't really exist. What's odd now is that the weird diagonal across the park goes the opposite direction from Huntington. I also think it's interesting that the trolleys used to run above ground there.

There's an interesting one up on the physical display which shows boating on the Charles that I can't figure out quite where it is. I think it might be at one of the ponds on the Esplanade.

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You can buy these on Ebay. Olmsted wanted sheep at Franklin Park because he didn't want the grass cut by machine - he wanted that nibbled look.

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