MDC Concrete Menagerie

While Geocaching in Medford/Woburn/Winchester this weekend doing a really cool series of caches about the Middlesex Canal, we came across this little glade with a menagerie of concrete alphabet animals in it. I didn't grow up here, and have never seen these before... so I found them endearing and lovely. I also thought they were horribly sad, because there was no one playing on or with them. The beach (Sandy Beach) was far away from these creatures. They should be moved closer to the fun.

I felt somewhat sad hanging around them, and totally enjoyed my 8 year old climbing on all of them.

Are any of you life-long Bostonians familiar with these creatures? Someone told me there used to be a similar grouping of these things in Nahant. Any other MDC parks have these (or do you remember some and they are no longer there?)

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