People and the Land
A: This name, of a prominent Native American leader in the 1600s, is also the name of a regional land trust.
Q: Who was Metacomet, and what is the Metacomet Land Trust?
►A bonus point if you know the name the English Colonists gave to this person.
A: The site of this unusually-named, former ski area in the southern Berkshires, was taken over by the Commonwealth in the early 1990s, and, after the site was remediated, was opened to the public for hunting, hiking and other outdoor recreation.
Hint: management of the site is split between DCR and MassWildlife.
Q. What is Jug End?
A: This town is the location of the Pilgrim Spring: reputedly the first source of fresh water encountered by the Pilgrims upon their first making landfall in the New World, in November of 1620.
Hint: it is not Plymouth.
Q: What is Truro?
A: This Massachusetts Town can only be reached by land via one single roadway.
What is Nahant?
A: This Massachusetts community has a cookie named after it.
What is Newton? The cookie of course is the Fig Newton, first produced by The F. A. Kennedy Steam Bakery of Cambridge in 1891.
A: This woman, active in Massachusetts conservation for over four decades, in both the private and public sectors, began her career in the early 80s in a seasonal position for the agency she later led in the early 2000s.
Hint: the nonprofit she now leads includes responsibility for the place she was stationed as a ranger
Q: Who is Kathy Abbott? [Kathy was a ranger for DEM on the Boston Harbor Islands in 1980; she later ran the agency, then renamed as DCR. She now runs the organization Boston Harbor Now.]
A. The origin of the site’s name from the previous question.
What is the name comes from the German "jugend", meaning "youth"
A: These two communities are home to the Nunkatesset Greenway, a network of land and water trails connecting the Town River and the Bay Circuit Trail to public conservation areas and urban centers.
Q: What are Bridgewater and West Bridgewater?
Although there are several examples of Massachusetts towns with the same name as a county located within that county, (the Town of Barnstable, in Barnstable County, for example), this town is an exception.
What is the Town of Franklin (which is in Norfolk County, not in Franklin County)?
A: The text on the map for this 25-acre Trustees of Reservations property is written in both English and Spanish, reflecting the diversity of the urban community it is located in.
Hint: the main activity on this property is farming.
Hint: the property’s name pays homage to the religious order that once owned the land.
What is Land of Providence?
A: A Rain Garden, adjacent to the Housatonic River, and one of the focal points of the scenic River Walk footpath in Great Barrington, is named in honor of this prominent African-American sociologist, historian, author and civil rights activist in the first half of the 20th century, and whose boyhood home is located nearby.
Q: Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
A: In 2010, a section of the Bay Circuit Trail in this town was successfully re-routed off a large, busy highway into an 11-acre wooded parcel, adjacent to an even larger highway, thanks to the cooperation of a state agency that owned the wooded parcel.
Hint: the state agency is the Massachusetts Department of Transportation
Q: What is Ashland?
A. The current name of the community once referred to as North Bridgewater.
What is Brockton.
A. This artificial waterway, originally built in 1917, was never used for transportation, and does not flow through the communities it is named after.
What is the Salem-Beverly Waterway Canal?
A: Dating back to the mid-1600s, and believed to be the first apple cultivar bred in (what is now the) United States, this apple is named for the community it originated in.
What is the Roxbury Russet?
A: The 19th Century author of ‘Tales of a Barefoot Boy’, a poem rhapsodizing a child’s connection to nature, this prominent writer and abolitionist’s home near the Merrimack River is now a historic landmark and museum.
Q: Who was John Greenleaf Whittier?
The Route numbers or names of both roadways from the previous Answer
What is Route 9, aka the Boston-Worcester Turnpike, and Interstate 90, aka the Massachusetts Turnpike or MassPike
A: This property, recently protected by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and with a scenic landscape largely shaped by glacial activity, is named for the Society’s first President, who frequented its woods and waters.
Hint: Visitors to the property might encounter the stone foundations of his cabin, as well as an adjacent stone boathouse, built into the hillside.
2d Hint: The property is along the Concord River.
Who was William Brewster? [The name of the property is Brewster’s Woods.
A. The purpose of the Salem-Beverly Waterway Canal.
What is Public Water Supply?
A. Massachusetts' newest Land Trust
What is the Boston Farms Community Land Trust.
A: A historic home in this western Mass. city, having achieved fame as the subject of the first book written by a well-renowned author and illustrator hailing from that same city, was torn down without a permit in 1992, the year following the author’s death, by a plastic surgeon, in order to create more parking for his adjacent business. The city had been planning to create an exhibit in the author’s honor on the street where the house was demolished.
Q: What is Springfield?
►A bonus point if you know the pen name of the author (Dr. Seuss), and ►another if you know his given name
►An additional point if you know the title of this author’s first book.
A. The name of the business whose corporate headquarters is adjacent to this parcel, and through which the Bay Circuit Trail also passes AND the name of the road crossing over the Pike on a bridge at this location, which also carries the Bay Circuit Trail. [Hint: the name of the road is on a sign attached to the bridge and viewable from the Pike
What is Staples AND What is Oak Street
A: This spring’s name is misleading, considering that it is located in a low-elevation Massachusetts state park just a short distance from the ocean.
Q: What is Mount Blue Spring?
The two Massachusetts' towns that were "discontinued" in the 1930's to make way for a large water project and whose town centers are now ABOVE water.
What are Dana and Prescott.
A. This food is one of the three main ingredients to the Smores we roast over campfires and was invented in this Massachusetts' community.
What is the Graham Cracker invented in Northampton.