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From: Dwight Smith <>
Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Dear Old Mendon
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:56:47 -0500
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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
>
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Alison

It is called Lake Nipmuck

Dwight Smith

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