Author: Jill Sinclair
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262195917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The history of Fresh Pond Reservation—onetime summer retreat for wealthy Bostonians, center of the nineteenth-century ice industry, and stomping grounds for Harvard students—told through photographs, maps and plans, and stories. Fresh Pond Reservation, at the northwest edge of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been described as a “landscape loved to death.” Certainly it is a landscape that has been changed by its various uses over the years and one to which Cantabridgeans and Bostonians have felt an intense attachment. Henry James returned to it in his sixties, looking for “some echo of the dreams of youth,” feeling keenly “the pleasure of memory”; a Harvard student of the 1850s fondly remembered skating parties and the chance of “flirtation with some fair-ankled beauty of breezy Boston”; modern residents argue fiercely over dogs being allowed to run free at the reservation and whether soccer or nature is a more valuable experience for Cambridge schoolchildren. In Fresh Pond, Jill Sinclair tells the story of the pond and its surrounding land through photographs, drawings, maps, plans, and an engaging narrative of the pond's geological, historical, and political ecology. Fresh Pond has been a Native American hunting and fishing ground; the site of an eighteenth-century hotel offering bowling, food and wine, and impromptu performances by Harvard men; a summer retreat for wealthy Bostonians; a training ground for trench warfare; a location for picnics and festivals for workers and sporting activities for all. The parkland features an Olmsted design, albeit an imperfectly realized one. The pond itself—a natural lake carved out by the retreating Ice Age about 15,000 years ago—was a center of the nineteenth-century ice industry (disparaged by Thoreau, writing about another pond), and still supplies the city of Cambridge with fresh drinking water. Sinclair's celebration of a local landscape also alerts us to broader issues—shifts in public attitudes toward nature (is it brutal wilderness or in need of protection?) and water (precious commodity or limitless flow?)—that resonate as we remake our relationship to the landscape.
Fresh Pond
Geological Survey Bulletin
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Pennsylvanian and Permian Rocks of the Southern Inyo Mountains, California
Author: Charles Warren Merriam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Stratigraphic revision of the Inyo section is made, and two new formations are described; the Keeler Canyon formation of Pennsylvanian and early Permian age and the Owens Valley formation of Permian age.
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Stratigraphic revision of the Inyo section is made, and two new formations are described; the Keeler Canyon formation of Pennsylvanian and early Permian age and the Owens Valley formation of Permian age.
Rhodora
Hydrogeology and Water Resources of Block Island, Rhode Island
Author: Anne I. Veeger
Publisher:
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Category : Block Island (R.I. : Island))
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Block Island (R.I. : Island))
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Bay Cities and Water Politics
Author: Sarah S. Elkind
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Combining insights from urban, western, and environmental history, Elkind examines the ways that people's reactions to their natural surroundings drive both demand for improved public services and political reform. She traces public works development in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era to explain how these programs united each city with its suburban neighbors, creating new political entities and allowing Boston and Oakland to appropriate rural resources and thus overcome the environmental limits to their continued growth and prosperity. She also shows how, when the power of regionalism is turned to urban development, environmental and social costs are sometimes overlooked.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Combining insights from urban, western, and environmental history, Elkind examines the ways that people's reactions to their natural surroundings drive both demand for improved public services and political reform. She traces public works development in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era to explain how these programs united each city with its suburban neighbors, creating new political entities and allowing Boston and Oakland to appropriate rural resources and thus overcome the environmental limits to their continued growth and prosperity. She also shows how, when the power of regionalism is turned to urban development, environmental and social costs are sometimes overlooked.
Report on Improvement of the Upper Mystic River and Alewife Brook by Means of Tide Gates and Large Drainage Channels
Author: Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
...A report on improvement of the Upper Mustic River and Alewife Brook by means of tide gates and large drainage channels...
Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
...A report on improvement of the Upper Mustic River and Alewife Brook by means of tide gates and large drainage channels...