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This may be slightly upstream of Water Loom Pond? The point of land to the rt in the picture doesn't remind me of WLP but an area just above the Bridge on Old Country rd. A few of us camped there in 1962. If so, there wasn't a boathouse there, but It may have been built and subsequently burned down after that as mentioned.

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This looks like Water Loom Pond. The building you see through the trees looks like the boathouse I visited many times. The picture was taken from a boat looking west. The boathouse burned down 50 yrs ago.

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Loved Kaula’s imaginative idea of when one of his paintings gets faded and dull you could peel off the old painting and have another of his “masterpieces”. If it’s anything like trying to take off a layer of wallpaper… good luck!

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This area looks like you are coming from Ashby Road crossing the area where people set out their boats, canoes, etc This area had more land when I was a kid. We use to swim on that side of Banky (Water Loom Pond).

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You're close. The site you are talking about was about 100 yds to the North.

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The felling of the Children's Oak without public notice was a stupid act and a sign that New Ipswich was changing or the worse. That plus the Lehtonen's garish illuminated sign and repeated attacks on the school budget. MAGA country.

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