Southeastern Massachusetts Magazine

  A gang of us went to Edaville Railroad in Carver this year.  Edaville Railroad is named for the original owner, Edward D. Atwood. There is no official Edaville section of South Carver. The park was first opened in 1947. It was originally a working railroad, used to harvest cranberries (Carver's motto? "Cranberries? Just happen to have some right here") on the bog that is now the park.  A quick pause in the history lesson so one of our journalists can pose with Santa. They used to let neighbors ride for free, but demand increased, so he began charging a nickel a ride. The trains were purchased from various failing railroads, as far away as Santa Fe. The original tracks were laid on top of the levees surrounding the cranberry bogs. Atwood perished in an explosion, and the park (the train rides became popular enough that the cranberry farm gradually became a theme park) was bought by a Rhode Island seafood magnate/railroad enthusiast. His claim to fame was that he sold th

  It was a lovely day for a cranberry bog walk. I try to avoid pestering the workers as I pester the workers. The cranberry bog people supplement their income with some wind turbines. The bogs and turbines are on the Bourne/Plymouth town lines, I'm not sure which  town I was in when I was shooting. Buzzards Bay is a village in Bourne, as well as a body of water. That's my man Big Jake, pullin' in the berries with a fat rake. This farm is actually rather massive, and they work sections of the bogs at a time. Our hosts today...  This is a literal truckload of cranberries. From the bog to the truck to Ocean Spray... to you! Ocean Spray has a big processing plant in nearby Carver, Massachusetts. Video below, and sorry for the shaky...

  Route 105 mostly Marion, Acushnet, Rochester, Lakeville, Middleboro, Halifax... click on any picture to make it Bigga... Perfect day for a Sunday drive One of the fun parts of getting old is that this looks more and more like a tree on fire every year I age. Mattapoisett River I shot this poorly, had to level it, then had to choose between making the trees level or making the sign level. I chose neither. I didn't really edit much for color or brightness, this is just what my camera did when we snap-shotted a few from the highway. I think the only edited one, brightness/color-wise, was the East Middleboro 4-H picture a few shots down below. After the 105 run, we dipped up 58 North, cut over to 123, visited my brother, then headed for the highway through Hanover  Route 105 rules not only for her trees, but because it is a lightly-travelled road where you can just stop in the middle of the road and bang away with Momma Camera. If you have a girl to watch traffic behind you, all the