| FoxholeAtheist |
| (Tourist) |
| 10/29/05 08:47 PM |
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Floating island in Mass towed back into pond
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Apparently, this 10,000 square foot island in the middle of Island Pond is not actually attached to the ground... it floats!
It recently got pushed by the wind over to a man's yard and had to be towed back out into the middle of the pond, as you can read in this article:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massach...middle_of_pond/
| firefysh |
| (Tourist) |
| 10/30/05 12:26 AM |
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Re: Floating island in Mass towed back into pond
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That is quite incredible FoxholeAtheist. I certainly wouldn't like it blowing into my backyard
firefysh.
| Erebus |
| (Tourist) |
| 10/30/05 07:21 AM |
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Re: Floating island in Mass towed back into pond
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Call that a pond? I call that a lake! It's huge. A pond should be just big enough to hold 5 ducks not a fleet of war ships!
| Jim_Demers |
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| 11/06/05 06:50 AM |
Re: Floating island in Mass towed back into pond
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The floating island made the front page of the NY Times today - a small pond makes it to the big leagues at last!
NY Times article on Floating Island
I attended Cathedral High back in the '70s, and now live in NY City, so it was a real treat to see the school on the front page of my Sunday paper. (I came here thinking I'd earn a placemark, only to find that FoxholeAtheist -- and the Boston Globe -- beat me to it.)
Notice that the Times and Google earth use the same aerial photo (from MassGIS).
Jim Demers