...alongside the Sudbury River in Wayland, MA yesterday. Furthermore, he stood his ground...
I'd launched from Route 20 after finding access to River Road closed due to emergency repairs being made to the Route 27 bridge...
Heading back upriver saw considerable areas of shallow water, especially from Wayland High School up into Framingham. Just how low the water was can be seen by this engine block...
...and this what appears to be literally "the bottom of the barrel" with the staves still attached to the barrel-head...
In this same area I came across these two old bottles...
The Kriger Farms milk bottle has an embossed address of 90 Second Street in Sherborn, MA. In trying to date the bottle I was surprised to find no such address in Sherborn nor any mention of such a farm. I believe it was part of a 565-acre parcel Sherborn annexed to Framingham in 1925. If so, this helps to date the bottle to a time prior to 1925 when Second Street was in Sherborn rather than Framingham as it is today. The other bottle bears no markings but has side-straps.
Trash found along the way...
The haul has that long-in-the-water patina which is very similar to today's trash haul out of the Assabet River...
The Assabet had plenty of depth, thanks to the Ben Smith Dam, but also an abundance of duckweed...
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