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Stony Brook in the snow
By adamg on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 3:48pm
If you crouch low, you can almost forget there's a small parking lot right behind you and a road just to your left:
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I love Stonybrook because
I love Stonybrook because it's sort of unlovable. Our own scrubby rocky little wetland, with no "pretty" things in it, really, but the best darn woodland with a Dunkin Donuts at its edge that you can find. I did hear red-winged blackbirds there this summer.
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A Real Brook?
I didn't think there was any actual brook left...
Rich brooky goodness
Yeah, it's basically a storm sewer through JP and a good part of Hyde Park, but it still flows freely through the reservation.
The brook drains Turtle
The brook drains Turtle Pond, as it always did.
More than you ever wanted to know about Stony Brook:
http://stonybrookinboston.blogspot.com/
Through Stony Brook Conduit
I love the story, reprinted from the Boston Globe of March 14, 1893, of the Perilous Trip by boat through the Stony Brook conduit from the gatehouse (?) to the Fens and back. I had no idea the tunnel was so large.
It's really a wonderful site you've put together there, Mark -- thanks for that!
People stopped writing like
People stopped writing like that and went for simple "just the facts" reporting. It's a shame.