Archive for the ‘Massachusetts’ Category

What’s in a Name

February 27, 2012

Beginning of Route 20Boston, Massachusetts© jan albers | all rights reserved© jan albers | all rights reserved

End of Route 20Boston, Massachusetts© jan albers | all rights reserved© jan albers | all rights reserved

Boston, Mashachusetts
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In Boston, Route 20 either begins or ends, depending on which direction you’re facing. Speaking historically, however, Boston is part of the road’s beginning, where it was originally called the King’s Highway. Later the name was changed to the Upper Boston Post Road, when it became part of a colonial mail route between Boston and New York. The road roughly follows the Old Connecticut Path, a Native American trail that extended from Massachusetts Bay to the Connecticut River.

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Checked Out

August 25, 2011

The Checkerboard Diner Pittsfield, Massachusetts  © jan albers | all rights reserved© jan albers | all rights reserved

Pittsfield, Massachusetts

The Checkboard Diner, on Housatonic Street in Pittsfield, Mass., apparently had at least two previous incarnations as diners: Miss Pittsfield and Lizi’s Miss Pittsfield, after being moved to the town from its original location in nearby Dalton. It now appears to be destroyed.

The Checkerboard DinerPittsfield, Massachusetts© jan albers | all rights reserved

Revolutionary War Cemetery

July 22, 2011

Revolutionary War CemeteryBecket, Massachusettes© jan albers | all rights reserved© jan albers | all rights reserved


Revolutionary War CemeteryBecket, Massachusettes© jan albers | all rights reserved© jan albers | all rights reserved

Becket, Mashachusetts

The West Becket Cemetery includes the graves of Revolutionary War soldiers. The headstones, tilted this way and that by time, seem to mimic the surrounding hills and Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.


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