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Five-car pileup on flash-frozen Enneking Parkway
By adamg on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 8:31pm
AlertNewEngland reports five cars have crashed on Enneking Parkway south of Washington Street after temperatures dropped and the winding road became a sheet of ice.
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Invincible!
I roll down that road every day. 50% of the time I get someone behind me thinking they can go 60-70.
By the way, yes I am watching BBC top gear as I type.
True confession
I like when I have the road all to myself from Washington to that weird intersection in the middle of nowhere (you know, the one with the signs pointing to Readville, Hyde Park, West Roxbury, Dedham, Flotsam and Jetsam), because I get to press the accelerator on the Prius just so, which disengages both gas engine and electric motor and lets me coast all the way down with the gasometer reading 99.9 m.p.g.
Yes, I'm one of those.
No Laugh
Maybe my wife won't see the story. I do the road on car and bike frequently. She's heard me scoff at the slippery-road warning signs frequently. Learning to drive on the mountains of WV, where a 15MPH sign for a coming curve means it, I have long disdained the hyper-cautious limits around here - bah, unskilled drivers. Now, it'll be think, think, think. I am a bear of very little brain.
Boston's nooks and crannies
Since migrating here many years ago, I've made it a point to familiarize myself with the city's neighborhoods and parks, but I'm trying to think if I've ever been on Enneking... Some years ago, a local friend took us on a hike through the woods (Stony Brook? We cut behind a police station or barracks?) onto a fire road that led to the far side of a really lovely, peaceful pond. I don't recall a heavily-traveled road on the other side, though, so it may not have been Turtle Pond.
The road's name, btw, honors "America's first impressionist", painter John Joseph Enneking, of Hyde Park.
Yeah, that sounds like it
The largest part of the reservation consists of woods surrounding Turtle Pond. It's really quite an amazing thing - an actual forest inside the city limits, all woodsy and rocky-outcroppy and everything. Also the headwaters (well, more like the headswamps) of Stony Brook, as in the T stop, as in what goes into a large pipe not long after it leaves the reservation and doesn't surface again until somewhere in the Fens. And there are deer in there.
There are two docks on Turtle Pond, one off the main road, the other a 10 or 15-minute walk into the woods. From the dock/clearing in the woods, you can see the other dock, but the trees will most obscure the road.
I think (somebody correct me if I'm wrong) Enneking was also the guy who convinced Ol' Man Grew to donate the land for the reservation to the state. At one time, his property included not only what is now the reservation but the George Wright Golf Course and Grew Hill, where he lived with only the company of the Hermit of Grew Hill.