Photo of the Day, Boston Style: Part XIX (2025)

I don't go walk along the Neponset much, but I'm always happy when a do. What a cool part of Boston! Here's a pic, and maybe I'll get around to sorting the rest of my pictures later:

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ritchiew said:
I don't go walk along the Neponset much, but I'm always happy when a do. What a cool part of Boston! Here's a pic, and maybe I'll get around to sorting the rest of my pictures later:

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That is Walter Baker Chocolate in Lower Mills along the Neponset Greenway. You are standing on the so-called "IB" or iron bridge that was a popular teenage hangout. There used to be a giant 8 story chocolate bean silo that the kids loved to climb too. There are tunnels that connect most buildings on the campus. The buildings on the left are in Boston and the right in Milton. If you look close you can see the dam that is part of a superfund site and will be removed, so this view will be very different in a few years.
 
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Returned to the alma mater this afternoon for the "Celebration of BLS", where my friend Anita was deservedly named the year's Distinguished Recent Graduate.

Little things here and there are different from so many years ago, and yet I was immediately transported back to 2003. Latin never changes, even when it does.
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I don't know how I feel about how BLS looks exactly the same as the day I left. Sort of expecting that they would have added one or two new shiny toy
 
KentXie said:
I don't know how I feel about how BLS looks exactly the same as the day I left. Sort of expecting that they would have added one or two new shiny toy
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I think it's actually appropriate. Something that dawned on me over the course of the day was how BLS is a unique but shared experience amongst its students and alumni. There's something meaningful in it remaining oddly frozen in time, technology and the curriculum might change but the building and the general experience is eternal.
 
I don't know that there's a lift narrow enough to fit down the aisles, stable enough to deal with the slope, and yet tall enough to actually reach them.
 
Arenacale said:
I don't know that there's a lift narrow enough to fit down the aisles, stable enough to deal with the slope, and yet tall enough to actually reach them.
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They'd need either a spider/atrium lift, or a straddle adapter. The spider would need to be set up where there's room for its outrigger but can have a pretty long "outreach" from center. Given the BPS portfolio, I'd be surprised if their maintenance folks didn't have access to one of these in house, but they can be rented pretty easily.
 
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