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Boston Turkeys

filosofo — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:01:19 +0000

The Boston Globe has noticed the increasing number of turkeys in the Brookline area. As I mentioned a while back, I’ve seen them a number of times in Brighton and in Newton. Surprisingly, the Globe article says that the Brookline police department sometimes gets a dozen complaints about the birds every day. They are an impressive sight—these giant birds that seem to come from nowhere—but calling the police seems excessive, especially since they seemed more skittish than scary to me.

Brookline: “No We’re Not Part of Boston!”

filosofo — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:39:18 +0000

Though surrounded by Boston, the 300-year-old town of Brookline is its own city. At the border of Brookline and Brighton—a neighborhood of Boston—you can see that each town seems not to take account of the other, at least with regard to fire hydrant placement (hydrants usually are more than just ten feet apart).

From what I’ve observed these hydrants’ colors are characteristic of their respective cities (Brighton/Boston on the left). Here they guard the DMZ, daring each other’s fire department to save a burning building in the wrong municipality.

Brookline’s 300th Anniversary

filosofo — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:05:24 +0000

I live about a block away from the border of Brookline, which just celebrated its 300th anniversary Sunday evening. When I first heard the fireworks, I thought maybe we were getting shelled by Connecticut. Apparently they were something to behold, too:

“It’s a good thing to have,” Linda Barnes said. “You pay a lot to live in Brookline, and it’s worth it, [with] stuff like this.”

Only 99 years till the next centennial, so don’t let those high taxes and weird parking rules get you down.