AGFranks wrote: >Hi All: > >I kep wondering about the "lake" as mentioned, and I am beginning to think >that Nipmuck Pond is now called a lake? I've been to the Myriad Ballroom. >I attended a Taft reunion there a few years ago, and of course a couple of >times when I was little for a family gathering of some sort. I never did >get to swim in Nipmuck Pond. > >I've traveled the back roads to and from Mendon and Uxbridge many times. I >miss doing that, but then there's something to be said when moving. You >lose things you like and gain new things to love. In my case, it a >fantastic view of the Sandia Mountains here in Albuquerque, and the fact >that it is high desert and no humidity. I can breathe much better. > >Here I am closer to the military base (I can look out the back of my >apartment building and see Kirtland AFB). There is a gate at the end of my >road. Living in Providence, I had a 31 mile drive to Newport to the Naval >Base. No fresh clam chowder, baked scrod, nor fried clams here. Red >Lobster and Long John Silvers doesn't count. > >I also miss stopping in at Old Cemetery in Mendon to visit Rev. Grindall 2 >Rawson's grave. The stone is a portrait stone, one of a very few left in >New England and has been in the cemetery since 1725. > >Regards, >Alison Franks >Archivist, Rawson Family Association > > >==== MAWORCES Mailing List ==== >Need to UNsub for vacation or summer?? >Forget How to UN sub??? >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/MA/worcester.html > > > > > Alison It is called Lake Nipmuck Dwight Smith