Fresh Pond Water
Author | : Cambridge (Mass.). City Council |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Fresh Pond (Cambridge, Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Cambridge (Mass.). City Council |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Fresh Pond (Cambridge, Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cambridge (Mass ) City Council |
Publisher | : Scholar's Choice |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2015-02-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781298198570 |
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Author | : Jill Sinclair |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2009-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0262195917 |
The history of Fresh Pond Reservation—onetime summer retreat for wealthy Bostonians, center of the nineteenth-century ice industry, and stomping grounds for Harvard students—told through photographs, maps and plans, and stories. Fresh Pond Reservation, at the northwest edge of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been described as a “landscape loved to death.” Certainly it is a landscape that has been changed by its various uses over the years and one to which Cantabridgeans and Bostonians have felt an intense attachment. Henry James returned to it in his sixties, looking for “some echo of the dreams of youth,” feeling keenly “the pleasure of memory”; a Harvard student of the 1850s fondly remembered skating parties and the chance of “flirtation with some fair-ankled beauty of breezy Boston”; modern residents argue fiercely over dogs being allowed to run free at the reservation and whether soccer or nature is a more valuable experience for Cambridge schoolchildren. In Fresh Pond, Jill Sinclair tells the story of the pond and its surrounding land through photographs, drawings, maps, plans, and an engaging narrative of the pond's geological, historical, and political ecology. Fresh Pond has been a Native American hunting and fishing ground; the site of an eighteenth-century hotel offering bowling, food and wine, and impromptu performances by Harvard men; a summer retreat for wealthy Bostonians; a training ground for trench warfare; a location for picnics and festivals for workers and sporting activities for all. The parkland features an Olmsted design, albeit an imperfectly realized one. The pond itself—a natural lake carved out by the retreating Ice Age about 15,000 years ago—was a center of the nineteenth-century ice industry (disparaged by Thoreau, writing about another pond), and still supplies the city of Cambridge with fresh drinking water. Sinclair's celebration of a local landscape also alerts us to broader issues—shifts in public attitudes toward nature (is it brutal wilderness or in need of protection?) and water (precious commodity or limitless flow?)—that resonate as we remake our relationship to the landscape.
Author | : Cambridge (Mass ) City Council |
Publisher | : Sagwan Press |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2015-08-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781296889401 |
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Author | : W. O. Robson |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2017-11-25 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780331912500 |
Excerpt from Fresh Pond Water: Measures Proposed for the Protection of the Purity of the Water-Supply of the City of Cambridge; Report of a Public Hearing Before a Joint Convention of the City Council of Cambridge They are consumers of it, as we are. They have investigated the borders of Fresh Pond; and I suppose' that their reports, in their own language, speak stronger sentiments than any of us, as citi zens, can express, and. I would present to you from their own reports to the city government their very language. I have before me some of their reports. In the first place, by authority of the legislature of this Commonwealth, by an act approved May 1, 1875, the city of Cambridge has the right to take and hold, by purchase or otherwise, such land on and around the margin of the ponds, including Fresh Pond, not exceeding five rods in width, as may be necessary for the preservation and purity of their waters. On that question a petition was ably presented before the legisla ture, which granted the city of Cambridge authority to take that quantity of land around Fresh Pond. Since 1875 no action has been taken to any extent; but, when the city asked for that action, they believed it was necessary for the preservation and purity of our water. In the report of the Water Board for the year 1876, which was signed by George P. Carter, J. Warren Merrill, H. L. Eustis, C. W. Kingsley, and F A. Allen, they remarked that there has been dissatisfaction in relation to the purity of the water, the principal reasons for which they think are, First, In the use of Fresh Pond for boating, by which more or less per sons have been drowned; and in some case, the bodies have been in the pond several days before they were recovered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : W. O. Robson |
Publisher | : Trieste Publishing |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2017-08-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780649303069 |
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Author | : Eben Norton Horsford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Water |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lisa Colozza Cocca |
Publisher | : Carson-Dellosa Publishing |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2019-08-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1731615485 |
Life in a pond is exciting. Birds, bugs, and shrews skitter across the surface. Turtles and fish zip along under the water’s surface. Beavers, herons, and others make themselves at home by the pond’s edge. In this book, readers in grades 3-5 will discover how these animals survive and thrive in freshwater pond biomes around the world. This NGSS-aligned series is packed with interesting facts and vivid photos that introduce readers to a variety of land and water animals. Each book includes a glossary, comprehension questions, and an activity for home or the classroom.
Author | : Ann Haven Morgan |
Publisher | : Andesite Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2015-08-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781297531330 |
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Author | : Michael J. Caduto |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780874515091 |
Introduces readers to the intriguing world of freshwater life.