Mile 11. Fellow Travelers. Walking The Post Road Entry #13 (WTPR #13). “When we had Ridd about an how’r, wee come into a thick swamp, wch. by Reason of a great fogg, very much startled mee, it being now very Dark.” Sarah Kemble Knight from the Journal of Madam Knight. October 2, 1704. *** This… (read more)
Across The Plains. Upper Boston Post Road Entry #3 (UBPR#3) “Sudbury Road, now Main Street, early laid out as a principal thoroughfare to the western settlements, extended through the comparatively uninhabited plain, important only as a means of communication to distant regions. The fact that the territory was unsettled doubtless accounts for its generous width… (read more)
Mile 10. Trials And Tribulations. Walking The Post Road Entry #12 (WTPR #12). “He told me that this place was the most sharping country ever I was in and that this little piddling trick was only the beginning of it and nothing to what I should experience if I stayed there but some weeks.”1Dr. Alexander… (read more)
Stuck At The Border Or, Pilgrim’s Lack Of Progress. Upper Boston Post Road Entry #2 (UBPR #2) “You will go through the counties of Suffolk and Worcester, taking a sketch of the country as you pass; It is not expected you should make out regular plans and surveys, but mark out the roads and distances… (read more)
Mile 0. The Origin Of The Post Road. Walking The Post Road Entry #2 (WTPR #2). “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people upon us.” John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity *** This is the second entry from my previous project, Walking… (read more)
Milestone 5. The Art of Walking. Walking The Post Road Entry #1 (WTPR #1) “I have met but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of walking…” Henry David Thoreau, Walking ***** This is the very first of the entries from my previous project, Walking the Post Road,… (read more)
Circling The Square. Upper Boston Post Road Entry #1 (UBPR #1) “Main Street through Weston, Waltham, and Watertown to Mill Bridge over the Charles River was the Ancient Post Road, originally called the County Road, and later the Sudbury Road.” Stephen Jenkins, The Old Boston Post Road, (1913), p. 371. *** Watertown Square is less… (read more)
The Arc Of The Moral Universe. Walking The Post Road Entry #11 (WTPR #11). “ I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by… (read more)
Steeple Chase. Walking The Post Road Entry #10 (WTPR #10). “In answer to the petition it was clearly voted…that the petitioners together with all such as dwell on the south side of the afores’d line who are willing to joyne with them, and do embody so as to maintain an able learned Orthodox minister amongst… (read more)
“But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” Robert Frost from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” This is another of the entries from my previous project, Walking the Post Road, which I have transferred over to this project for two reasons…. (read more)
