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Why the hell it means so much to me
On the second day of my stomach flu, my true love brought to me a ninety-five-year-old timetable for the Boston and Albany Railroad.
(Today was actually, noticeably better. I'm still more or less on liquids, but miso soup, goat's milk custard, and beef broth are a substantive improvement on ginger beer. My fever came down a full degree. I no longer feel as though my only options are active nausea or exhaustion.)
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derspatchel picked it up on his way home from a recording session at Harvard. I needed information on B&M's Western Division for a story, but it was also just a wonderful thing to be handed among the new bottles of ginger beer and seltzer.
I shall now attempt to sleep the same number of hours as last night, only hurting much less.
(Today was actually, noticeably better. I'm still more or less on liquids, but miso soup, goat's milk custard, and beef broth are a substantive improvement on ginger beer. My fever came down a full degree. I no longer feel as though my only options are active nausea or exhaustion.)
The timetable is "Corrected to June 29, 1919."
derspatchel picked it up on his way home from a recording session at Harvard. I needed information on B&M's Western Division for a story, but it was also just a wonderful thing to be handed among the new bottles of ginger beer and seltzer.I shall now attempt to sleep the same number of hours as last night, only hurting much less.
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(a) That's actually extremely cool. I didn't know there were canals in Chester.
(b) Hey, do you want to audition for the upcoming PMRP show? Summer Radio Mystery Theatre: Super Sleuths. It doesn't pay, but you don't have to dress like a tea cozy. It just struck me that radio theater might be something you would enjoy.
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Chester didn't have canals itself, but at that point I was living in Northampton, where the New Haven canal used to terminate, so I talked a great deal about that. It even had its own folk songs--they weren't that great, but they sure were canal-specific.
Canals don't get enough love. We could have our own canal travel system all over New England and New York State, if they hadn't been filled in/neglected in favor of the train lines. I dunno how they kept the canals in good condition in England as well as they've done, but I wish we had that here.
Wouldn't it be great? Live in a narrowboat in the Charles River and vacation by puttering off to New Hampshire for a week or so. Explore the Berkshires by a system of causeways, locks, pumping stations and pounds that I just made up and that run from hill to hill.
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Awesome! Sign up! Get your name in the audition times!
Wouldn't it be great? Live in a narrowboat in the Charles River and vacation by puttering off to New Hampshire for a week or so. Explore the Berkshires by a system of causeways, locks, pumping stations and pounds that I just made up and that run from hill to hill.
It would be great and you should write about it. Consider it alt-industrial history.
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