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The mighty Neponset

By adamg on Wed, 07/03/2013 - 7:16pm

Neponset at Lower Mills

Brian MacLean captured the Neponset at Lower Mills the other day.

Copyright Brian MacLean. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

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Neponset River
Dorchester Lower Mills


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Comments

By JohnAKeith on Wed, 07/03/2013 - 9:08pm.

Put it in black and white and you couldn't tell the century.

(Okay, okay, you could by the ivy ...)

By anon on Thu, 07/04/2013 - 3:25am.

The ugly bridge places it squarely in the now. Our predecessors wouldn't have built such an ugly, purely utilitarian POS.

By another anon on Thu, 07/04/2013 - 8:12am.

Not all structures have to be edifices. I'm sure the old Yankees would have been happy to have a utilitarian bridge that safely got them to market and church without frills.

Tehy certainly wouldn't break the bank for a monument. That is a mill pond, after all.

By Suldog on Thu, 07/04/2013 - 9:04am.

Since this is only the third century in which photography has been extant (with the total of years being less than 200) I'd say John A Keith is quite correct. Having grown up less than a half-mile from that spot on the river, and having seen that particular view from a few childhood explorations UNDER that bridge, I can tell you it looks almost exactly the same as it did in the 1960's.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

P.S. The Neponset looks as though it smells the same, too.

By b kokes on Wed, 07/03/2013 - 10:23pm.

And that river often smells bad! It's one of the reasons I'm moving out.

By anon on Thu, 07/04/2013 - 9:35am.

When I think of that area I think of the smell from Walter Baker's Chocolate that was made in a factory in the immediate area. Great aroma!

By Suldog on Thu, 07/04/2013 - 10:02am.

Yeah, when I was a little kid, the entire neighborhood smelled like chocolate. Hard to beat that.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

By anon on Thu, 07/04/2013 - 10:58am.

We called it the Mighty Nepo when I was a kid.