NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent This month NSRWA features the town of Norwell in its 50 Places to Explore Contest. Through the years, the Town of Norwell has done a remarkable job preserving wildlife habitat across a diverse array of landscapes. There are trail networks and maps for every major conversation parcel, which of course […]
Early Activism Leads to Cleaner Rivers By Jim Glinski, Scituate The Scituate Wastewater Treatment Plant was built in the 1960s to treat town sewage and to discharge wastewater into the ground only. Over time the sand filtration system became inadequate to treat the growing volume of sewage. During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, […]
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent This month NSRWA features the town of Marshfield in its 50 Places to Explore Contest. With its many beaches and parks, as well as the walking spots featured here, Marshfield offers an extraordinary array of places to enjoy the natural world. You could visit a different property each day during […]
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent This month the North and South Rivers Watershed Association is featuring the town of Duxbury in its 50 Places to Explore contest. During this prolonged time of social distancing, we encourage the public to visit conservation lands and other open space areas. While a few of my favorite properties are presently […]
The following story was unearthed recently. It tells the tale of the Brig Polly, a 131 ton ship constructed in Pembroke in 1791. She was probably built by shipbuilders Alden Briggs, Calvin Turner and Icabod Thomas, Jr. Her home port was Boston. Lost Ships and Lonely Seas by Ralph D. Paine 1920 A hundred years […]
A Second Wind: “Watershed Wakes Up — How About You” (Newsletter, May 1989) By Jim Glinski, Scituate In a frank letter to its members in May 1989, the NSRWA admitted that after the passage of the North River Scenic Protective Order in 1978, “we all relaxed because it seemed like the state would take care […]
By Kezia Bacon, Correspondent As the coronavirus pandemic surges here in Massachusetts, and social distancing becomes even more defined and urgent, we’ve been advised to stay close to home. For nature enthusiasts, this might feel confining, especially if daily walks in any of the hundreds of the South Shore’s open spaces have become part of […]
By Caleb Estabrooks, Hanover Fox Hill is located in present day Norwell where the Barque Hill/Brigantine Circle neighborhood can be found. Today it is difficult to identify the hills that dominated the landscape, but during the colonial and early federalist era; when the area was deforested and before the bulldozers had leveled the land for […]
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent This month the North and South Rivers Watershed Association’s “50 Places to Explore” contest, which encourages the public to visit conservation lands and other open space areas, features properties in Weymouth, as well those located on the land that used to be the South Weymouth Naval Air Station. Weymouth is a large town, with 46 parks and recreation […]
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent This month the North and South Rivers Watershed Association’s “50 Places to Explore” contest, which encourages the public to visit conservation lands and other open space areas, features properties in Hingham. Hingham has quite a number of open spaces — a number that keeps growing! In 2017 the Hingham Land […]