An Air of Permanent Mourning
The polarization between city and country is an old story, but now it is entrenched in the upstate communities that were sacrificed to provide water to the downstate metropolis.
Luc Sante
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This is the third installment in a four-part series on the reservoirs of upstate New York. Constructed to supply water to New York City, these feats of engineering exemplify the social compact that undergirds ambitious public infrastructures even as they intensify divisions between city and country, wealth and poverty.
Angler at Pepacton Reservoir, 2020. [Tim Davis]
New York City, its population ever expanding through the decades, continually needed more drinking water, having exhausted its local supply by the early 19th century. Between the 1830s and the end of that century, the Board of Water Supply built the Croton System of twelve reservoirs in Westchester County just north of the city, but construction barely kept pace with demand. As the 20th century da
A Page from North Quabbin History: T & F Cycle Car of New Salem
Don Flye with the T&F Cycle Car that he and Wayne Hachey recreated at the Orange Engine Show in June 2019. Photo/Wayne Hachey
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Most of the cars seen today are very different than the vehicles that once existed in the late 1800s and early 1900s. One of the more inventive vehicles created at that time was the T&F Cycle Car by T&F Cycle Car Co. of New Salem. The company was founded by Levi Flagg and William E. Taft in 1906. Flagg always had an interest in mechanics and had started a machine shop in his father’s chicken coop, according to Donald Flye of Petersham, a former New Salem resident and member of the Swift River Valley Historical Society. Flye has always had an interest in cars, he said, since he began driving a Model T around back roads as a teenager.
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Belmont Heritage Commission presents Heritage Awards
December 16, 2020BELMONT Belmont Heritage Commission Chairman Vicki Donovan, along with six commission members and the Belmont Board of Selectmen, announces its annual Community Heritage Awards.
The Heritage Commission overwhelmingly chose and honored Gretta Olson-Wilder, who received the Community Partners and Special Events Award. She worked diligently and tirelessly as Belmont s Events Coordinator to organize numerous events celebrating the town s 150th Anniversary last year. Olson-Wilder went above and beyond to bring many activities, concerts, and special events to the community. She was determined to acknowledge people, groups and moments that had helped form, inspire and enrich the town s history and community past, present and future. Some examples of her energy and effort showed through with programs and activities she arranged and promoted throughout the year. Olson-Wilder had four different band concerts, two held