Pine Street

 

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Thoreau

For 35 years I walked the beach in Duxbury every chance I got.  Now I live in a nearby town, not directly on the water and I walk Pine Street which runs in a straight line about a half mile from my street to the end.  It passes the Council on Aging and an athletic field. There are houses interspersed among the pine trees. The newer ones that were carved out of the dense woods a few years ago are larger than the old ones.  This was the street that once had the town dump, and is reputed to have been the area of town where its black residents lived following their release from slavery or indentured servitude in the 1700s. 

Today there was a cold icy rain that raised the fog off the snow and soaked my jacket.