As for the bogs, they were nameless, then gone.įormer bog dwellers were left to wander the municipality. Pinkham Hill became Pinkham Square Baskertop Hill, Baskertop Square. Eventually the founders knocked over most of the hills, shoved them into the bogs, declared them to be squares, and named each for the former hill at its heart. Like Rome, it had been built among seven hills unlike Rome, it was a swampy place, a city of fens and bogs. Salford was a city hard north of Boston, with a sliver of coastline just big enough to ramshackle the houses and web the occasional foot. Latest, "Bowlaway." She tweets Book Excerpt: Bowlaway Guest:Įlizabeth McCracken, award-winning author of six books, including her Her latest, 'Bowlaway,' tells the story of Bertha Truitt and her descendants as their lives are shaped - and sometimes ruined - by the family-owned bowling alley in a small town north of Boston. (Elizabeth McCracken, credit Edward Carey) This article is more than 4 years old.Įlizabeth McCracken, the award-winning author of six books including "The Giant's House" and "Niagra Falls All Over Again" has a new novel out - 18 years since publishing the last one.
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