Article: Our own seven wonders

THIS SUMMER in Lisbon, a private Swiss foundation announced the results of a global Internet poll to choose seven contemporary wonders of the world. Topping the poll of more than 100 million votes were the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, and the 1931 statue Christ the Redeemer, which looms over Rio de Janeiro. The United Nations agency for world heritage sites, UNESCO, blasted the contest as a cheap gimmick. But sometimes cheap gimmicks have their uses; just look at speed dating. So here is a necessarily personal and quirky list of the Seven Wonders of Massachusetts, both natural and manmade.

- The Great Salt Marsh. Vast and green and stretching from Gloucester to the New Hampshire ...

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