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Because of the dumping, the streams have been dammed up and have formed a pond. Thus the area encloses habitats for both swamp and dry-land flora and fauna...
Stores which so far will honor the club's credit cards are Chez Dreyfus and the Treeland Flower Shop in Cambridge; Simon and Sons Clothiers in Boston; Jack Williams Magic Gardens in Fresh Pond; Monticello Rest on Route 9; Robin Hood's Ten Acres on Route 20; and the Beacon Liquor Corporation in Brighton...
Pope Leo X finally excommunicated Luther in 1521, but the monk was now too big a fish to be thrown out of the pond. Notes Durant wryly: "Luther proclaimed that no man could be saved unless he renounced the rule of the papacy. The monk had excommunicated the pope...
...those days Andy used to enjoy student hospitality--many would invite him up to their rooms for refreshment. A fellow with the improbable name of Ducky Pond in M-entry of Lowell House who had a bar in his room used to be especially nice to him. "'There was always an invitation there for the letter-carrier," Andy recalls; "they had quite a session there at one spring dance. There was a room for punch, a room for beer, and a room for liquor. I went into the liquor room and they handed me a half-glass of whiskey--they...
Years ago, when Andy was delivering mail in Fresh Pond, he would report at 7:20 in the morning, make two deliveries and then enjoy a two-hour layoff from 12:40 to 2:40 p.m. He would then make his afternoon delivery, and go home at 5 p.m. Nowadays he must be at the post office at 6:15 a.m. and work until 2:45 p.m. with a half hour off for lunch. "You're supposed to sit on the curbstone and eat your lunch," he laments. He also must get up at 5 in the morning, which means...