Word: wollastons
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...minute T ride on the red line is will bring sun-seekers to the Wollaston Beach. Actually, the T stops in the town, and it's a 20 minute walk down aptly-named Beach Street in order to reach the water. It's a pleasant stroll through neighborhoods of old house with potted geraniums and rose bushes in the front yard, but the final destination may be disappointing...
...would be hard-pressed to see Wollaston as a true escape from the city. Boston's skyline looms in the distance, land looms in nearly every direction and the every-present traffic noise is impossible to ignore...
...Wollaston's sand is the standard grayish stuff, laced with dried seaweed and a little shredded garbage. Closer to the shore, the sand becomes mucky and less-than-inviting to potential waders...
...really possible that Howard Johnson's simply disappeared, and without anyone saying farewell? No, the reality is more interesting. From the day in 1928 when Howard D. Johnson opened his first roadside stand, in Wollaston, Mass., to sell hot dogs and a rich chocolate ice cream of his own formulation (16% butterfat), the next half-century was largely a story of growth and profit. But that success inevitably brought increased competition from all kinds of newcomers, like McDonald's, and the gas shortages of the 1970s hurt all roadside businesses considerably. There were also some who claimed that baby-boom...
...reality of this writer's beginnings was none too efficacious. Cheever was born the son of a prosperous shoe-merchant and a strong minded Englishwoman, in Wollaston, Massachusetts, in 1912. Bad deals and the depression destroyed his father and left the family dependent on the mother's quaint foreign gift shop. Young John, whose successful older brother Fred had begun at Dartmouth, found himself associating with his embittered, self-pitying father, while his mother grew increasingly distant...