View of the canal from the bridge in Uxbridge.
A couple of hundred years of polluting the river nearly killed it. How fortunate for us that nature is resilient.
Today, The Blackstone Canal is beginning to recover, but it’s slow. In the early autumn it is as smooth as glass and reflects like a mirror. A bright day in mid September.
Mammoth Mill in Waterford, Rhode Island in North Smithfield pictured at the turn of the 20th century by Mrs. Nelson Wright
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A view from a bridge is usually quite magnificent:>)
We’re fortunate to have wonders like the Blackstone Canal and rivers in our backyard. We’re also lucky that they are in better shape now than a century ago. Someone is doing something right. A view from the bridge? Love the play!!
I knew you’d pick up on that! Yes, the river is better, but they are still polluting it upstream.