di Napoli, a Watertown

[Mark Mandel]

We lived for 20 years in Framingham, MA. A while after moving there from
Berkeley I developed a theory that every city and town in the Commonwealth
has a road named for each of the others.

m a m

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

> The same is true in a number of places in Massachusetts--e.g., Brookline
> and Newton streets in respective towns, Dedham Street in Newton changing
> to Baker in Dedham (not quite a reversal), etc. And it's not just
> Massachusetts--Milwaukee St. in Madison, WI, used to be the street
> leading to the road to Milwaukee before being replaced by the
> interstate, and, of course, it was not named "Milwaukee" 75 miles to the
> East.
>
> And, of course, Cambridge was initially known as Newtowne, but that was
> long gone by the time Cambridge Street was named in Boston. Can't help
> with the pond, unfortunately.
>
>     VS-)
>

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