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Swimming Hole No More
Thursday, January 4, 2007


When I was at school in a little town in western New York, I lived for a year in an "un-frat" house. Essentially it was a house next to a frat house and next to a vacant lot. It was fantastic for a burgeoning musician who wanted to play a lot and study a bit, too. I was emailed this photograph precisely one year ago today, and I'm sorry to say that it took me so long to look at it.

244 Temple Street was a famous house in my little college town: vineyard in the back yard, path leading to a creek for swimming, long double driveway for student parking. No more. Now, as you can see, there is a "back to the future"-like development going up. No more quiet, no more dirt paths to swim, and no more loud music played until all hours. Now, there are neat little houses all lined up.

Don't get me wrong, people need a place to live. I'm just always let down at the amount of brilliant swimming holes lost to neighborhoods.

Up there in the photo, the barn/garage you see used to be the only thing you would see. The house is to the right, and the new development road cuts right through our old BBQ, dirt path area down to the vineyard/creek.

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written by Eric Mills at 21:28  

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