Hermagoras
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Joined: June 2007
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| Quote (Steverino @ Sep. 06 2007,11:41) | | Quote (Hermagoras @ Sep. 06 2007,11:37) | | Quote (Rob @ Sep. 06 2007,11:30) | | Joe G and JAD are in a class of their own when it comes to instability. ?There's gotta be something in the New England water. ?Do you drink Evian, Hermagoras? |
If Joe G is in New Hampshire, we drink different water. ?Mine comes from the mighty Quabbin, and it's fine indeed. |
Then I must be south of your location.
Did you ever see the Quabbin special on PBS? Fantastic special with divers diving the bottom to show the old town, bridge and railroad and golf course remains. |
I'm in the Boston area. As to documentaries, I only know Haunting the Quabbin, a great radio documentary produced by WBUR. The former town residents still hold ceremonial town meetings every year. Very poignant.
Also there's James Tate's poem "Quabbin Reservoir" (in Distance from Loved Ones, 1990), which includes the following passage:
| Quote | There was a village at the bottom of the lake,
and I could just make out the old post office,
and, occasionally, when the light struck it just right,
I glimpsed several mailmen swimming in or out of it,
letters and packages escaping randomly, 1938, 1937,
it didn't matter to them any longer. Void.
No such address. |
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