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...there won't be any publicity coming out of Watson Rink this winter. Watson is closed for renovations (see feature, page46) so get your quarter ready for the MBTA ride over to Boston University's Walter Brown Arena, where the Crimson ice hockey team will play its home games...
...really surprised. I didn't expect to find so many artifacts in that area. The MBTA was going right through a site that hadn't been disturbed for over 200 years." Moir said...
Stop the Shovels Moir contacted ICA director Michael Roberts, who met with representatives from Harvard University, the MBTA and the Massachusetts Historical Commission today to determine whether construction should be halted pending complete excavation of the area. Because federal funds are being used for the MBTA project, the final decision will be made by the National Advisory Council of Historical Preservation, based on the Massachusetts Historical Commission's evaluation of the historical value of the find...
...meantime, archaeologists have been following the MBTA workers in an attempt to salvage some of the artifacts and reconstruct the stratification pattern which indicates the chronology of the debris...
...MBTA officals doubt they will find more remnants along the way, as they begin construction on the Red Line extension to Alewife, but such occurences are not unusual. For instance, there is the famous example of the time they started digging the subway for Mexico City in the late 1960s and unearthed a whole city...