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Article: If you go . . . New Deal projects employed thousands back then, and remain as historical, and sometimes sentimental, landmarks
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2009
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The hikers who have scaled Milton's Great Blue Hill are ready
for their well-deserved rewards. Once they take a few more steps up
Eliot Tower's winding staircase and gaze out, grimaces melt into
smiles as the broad plain of Eastern Massachusetts unfurls, from
the island jewels of Boston Harbor to the heights of Mount
Wachusett. The resplendent vista has always been a welcome escape
from the city, but these days it also offers a needed reprieve from
the din of bankruptcies, layoffs, and foreclosures.
Unbeknownst to many of the hikers, however, the view from the
rough-hewn stone lookout is a legacy from the last time economic
news was so dire - the Great Depression. Eliot Tower and ...