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| After some tea and a warm rest indoors, we were ready to head onwards. Here we are leaving the driveway of the Poole House. | Next we rode to the Charles Williams, Jr. House. Charles Williams was a participant in the early development of the telephone; this was the first house in America to be connected to another location via an outside line. |
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| Despite its history, the Charles Williams, Jr. House is becoming dilapidated. For example, it's yard is now a place where geriatric cars go to die in the weeds. (Yes, I couldn't resist the gratuitous irony of this sign.) | Next stop: Foss Park, through which the Middlesex Canal once ran. Here, one of our guides points out the direction where the canal used to go, before it was filled in during the 1870s. |
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| We listen to more information about the Middlesex Canal. The stones behind the speaker are historical markers which also delineate the history of the canal in the park. | After Foss Park, we headed up a hill to the St. Polycarp's Mens Club. Here we are in the parking lot. Again, I couldn't help but make the obvious visual joke in juxtaposing the "no trespassing" sign with us bikers. Pretty lame, I admit . . . . |
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| There was some debate about the original use of the structure housing the St. Polycarp's Mens Club. Some think it was a barn dating back to the period where this part of Somerville was agricultural, I think it is newer, and that the structure was a warehouse. | We ride on. Here's a classic Somerville street scene: bikers, hills, cars, and buildings all scrambled together in a lively urban fabric. The Somerville City Hall can be seen at the top of the hill. |
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