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Stalking Jorge

My obsession with the TV show Lost and actor Jorge Garcia

Rubber Soul

The land in question is layered with history. It is the original site of Paul Revere’s Copper Rolling Mill. The copper sheathing the dome of the Massachusetts State House was rolled there, as were the sides of the U.S. Constitution, “Old Ironsides.” Before Paul Revere bought the property it housed a gunpowder mill that supplied the colonial army during the revolutionary war. Sitting on the east branch of the Neponset River the plot of land has always been conducive to industry of one sort or another. In the 1600s the scattered farmers in the area banded together and built a mill and house there “for an honest miller” to grind their grain. The last known Native Americans to occupy the site were the Neponsett. They too used the river for commerce, carrying furs down stream in canoes to sell to the Europeans who had set up a Trading Post on Thompson Island in Boston Harbor before the Pilgrims ever set foot on the Mayflower.

The remnants of all this history are two buildings from Paul Revere’s occupancy. There is a gracefully aged, ramshackle barn, one of the first buildings he erected, and a nine thousand square foot brick building that was one of the copper rolling mills. Leading the charge to save the historic buildings is attorney George Comeau, a member of the town Historical Commission. Comeau has stated in the local press that he will do everything he can to save the buildings and will take legal action if necessary. “In buying the property, they bought two historic buildings. As part of this it’s their ethical, and, in time they will find, their legal, obligation to preserve these buildings.” (more)

The Climb

My idiotic idea that I could climb Gros Morne, the second tallest mountain in Newfoundland, and how it almost killed me

Don't Look Down

A light hearted account of going blind