Hello, I just saw this posted on a non-genealogy List, so I thought I would post it here: http://www.middlesexcanal.org/ Sun, Nov 8 - MCA FALL MEETING to be held on Sunday, November 8 at 2:00pm at the Middlesex Canal Museum and Visitor Center at 71 Faulkner Rd in North Billerica. David Dettinger, a Director of the MCA and author of the definitive study of the Canal in Boston will introduce the primary speaker, Duane Lucia. Mr. Lucia, President of the West End Civic Association is an aficionado of Charles Bulfinch, Boston's most famous architect and designer of the Bulfinch Triangle. Together they will give a lively presentation titled "When Boston was Cut in Two". Please join us. My note: This museum is located inside one of the two "mills" in the "North Billerica Historic Mill District." They are the Faulkner Mill and the Talbot Mill which sit on either side of the Concord River just below the "falls." The "millpond" and "mill dam" are just across the street from them, and the little park beside them is a nice place to sit for an hour. A short walk east and you come to the "North Billerica Train Station" so you can take the Commuter Rails to get there. This Historic District also includes historic homes, large and small, where the mill workers used to live. The "Canal" came up the Rogers St. area and went over to the millpond. There the horse pulling the barge, and the man directing the horse, would walk across a rope bridge - to get to the other side. And, if you walk to the other end of Rogers St., you will get to the entrance of "Iron Horse Park" which was the place where locomotives were repaired for many years FYI: I hope you don't mind my saying that the Billerica Historical Society is one of several Societies in the area which have web sites which have not been updated for at least a year. If anyone has computer web site skills, and has some spare time, perhaps you could volunteer to help these Societies. In the two Societies I know about, both web masters of their sites passed away, and no one replaced them. http://www.billericahistorical.com/ http://www.freewebs.com/stonehamhistory/ Betty (near Lowell, MA)