Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this moment Dr. Lilly's mask started to leak, and he had to get out of the tank to keep from drowning. So he never learned what lay at the end of the blue-lighted tunnel...
...that had been hanging in front of his eyes gradually opened into a three-dimensional dark, empty space. The change was striking and intensely interesting; he waited eagerly to see what would happen next. Then out of the darkness came "small, strangely shaped objects with self-luminous borders. A tunnel whose inside 'space' seemed to be emitting a blue light then appeared straight ahead...
Like most tunnels, the Common cow-tunnel is covered at the top. But it is also unique in having been covered at both ends for many years--ever since the cows left Boston Common. And that is a curious story...
Along with one subway station, a lavatory, and an imminent city parking lot, the subterranean section of Boston Common also seems to contain a cow-tunnel. The Paulist Fathers have been building a new Information Center on Park Street. To do this they had to tear down an old building. In the sub-basement of the old building they found eight stalls. There was at first some question about whether the stalls had held cows or witches. (Several witches were hanged at the nearby Old Granary Burying Ground). In recent weeks the digging has uncovered a number of large cisterns...
...some time the Boston amateur historians have suspected that there is, indeed, a network of tunnels burrowing under the Common. These have all been blocked off for so many years that everybody had forgotten about them. But the new discovery has created a stir of renewed cow-tunnel interest among Boston-folk. Lots of people are coming to see. Since a new building will soon be on top of the cow-tunnel, and an underground city parking lot will soon be beneath it, there is not much time left. The address is 4-5-6 Park Street...