Photos Central MA has Patriots

[pmclaine]

A favorite place, one of the nicest hillsides in MA......over looks a failed Utopian commune - Fruitlands - shocker, not everyone wanted to work and it failed....

Fruitlands (transcendental center) - Wikipedia

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The field in the distance is the 900 meter M249 range on Devens......

What it looks like in the winter from the firing point.....

 

[pmclaine]

I was out that way doing some load develpment for my Winchester M70 Hathcock tribute rifle. Figured Id go by my local gun store and see FedEx delivered my new Sig. Had some time to kill so I checked out Lancaster, MA.

Lancaster, MA was the equivalent of Nebraska in the early days of the colonial period, farms that fed the cities and under attack by Indians....

Mary Rowlandson - Wikipedia

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Charles Bulfinch - Wikipedia

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First Church of Christ, Unitarian - Wikipedia

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The old stables......

 

[pmclaine]

Nearby cemetery....

Civil War Veteran...

Each of these flags is a Revolutionary War veteran....

 

[pmclaine]

My kind of gun store....

Winchester 10 gauge blank cannon....

@308pirate I imagine some swabby cared enough about this to add the turks knot but it looks hardly used.....

Nice Inland with a fat stock....

@BullGear I think your shotgun needs have been met but....

 

[pmclaine]

Model 70 corner looking a little bare....

Couple SMLE and MAS......One of the Enfields caught my eye....

I guess it was an effort to try to solve the problems found during WWI. Some of the ideas were adopted some were not.

@Bigfatcock Colt Corner......

 

[Son of Dorn]

Apparently the fellow who invented the Fruitlands community objected to the growing of carrots, beets, and potatoes among other, y'know, healthy root-vegetables because they "grew downward" and were therefore of a lower nature than stuff that grew aboveground. Except that they probably would've done a bit better in the crappy land used at the commune. If you can grow potatoes in Ireland and Russia, you could probably manage to grow them there.

On top of that, they didn't use any animals to tend their farm and most of the people at the community were more concerned with the philosophizing part of life there and not the, y'know, we-only-eat-what-we-grow-here part. I mean, you'd think they'd have learned about the difficulties of farming in Massachusetts after the whole Plymouth Colony thing...

Oh and some member of the community was apparently put in jail because he defended himself against some assholes who tried to cut off his beard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Palmer_(communard) .

 

[pmclaine]

Apparently the fellow who invented the Fruitlands community objected to the growing of carrots, beets, and potatoes among other, y'know, healthy root-vegetables because they "grew downward" and were therefore of a lower nature than stuff that grew aboveground. Except that they probably would've done a bit better in the crappy land used at the commune. If you can grow potatoes in Ireland and Russia, you could probably manage to grow them there.

On top of that, they didn't use any animals to tend their farm and most of the people at the community were more concerned with the philosophizing part of life there and not the, y'know, we-only-eat-what-we-grow-here part. I mean, you'd think they'd have learned about the difficulties of farming in Massachusetts after the whole Plymouth Colony thing...

Oh and some member of the community was apparently put in jail because he defended himself against some assholes who tried to cut off his beard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Palmer_(communard) .

Yep, we been fucked up for a long time.

Nearby is an old shaker camp.

Its in ruins and you swear looking at it it was some Scottish Highland Castle ruin...its fantastic.....pictures for another day. There cemetery is cool as shit....sure enough with celibacy being the primary tenant once it was full they were not getting more internees. If I remember right the markers are these fantastic, look like enamelware, constructs - first quality was a Shaker trait.

 

[hlee]

Central MA has Patriots​

I believe the word you were looking for is 'had...'

 

[Son of Dorn]

Yep, we been fucked up for a long time.

Nearby is an old shaker camp.

Its in ruins and you swear looking at it it was some Scottish Highland Castle ruin...its fantastic.....pictures for another day. There cemetery is cool as shit....sure enough with celibacy being the primary tenant once it was full they were not getting more internees. If I remember right the markers are these fantastic, look like enamelware, constructs - first quality was a Shaker trait.

That Shaker place, or one like it, was apparently the inspiration. Difference was, the Shakers A. had a better work ethic and B. weren't opposed to outside trade, having varied diet, using farming animals, or eating "lower" vegetables. Granted, the Shakers died out too but it's the same reason the Amish and Mennonites have lasted so long and Fruitlands didn't.

There's a Shaker village up near Lexington, KY. Neat place, good restaurant there.

 

[pmclaine]

Apparently the fellow who invented the Fruitlands community objected to the growing of carrots, beets, and potatoes among other, y'know, healthy root-vegetables because they "grew downward" and were therefore of a lower nature than stuff that grew aboveground. Except that they probably would've done a bit better in the crappy land used at the commune. If you can grow potatoes in Ireland and Russia, you could probably manage to grow them there.

On top of that, they didn't use any animals to tend their farm and most of the people at the community were more concerned with the philosophizing part of life there and not the, y'know, we-only-eat-what-we-grow-here part. I mean, you'd think they'd have learned about the difficulties of farming in Massachusetts after the whole Plymouth Colony thing...

Oh and some member of the community was apparently put in jail because he defended himself against some assholes who tried to cut off his beard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Palmer_(communard) .

I like that Palmer dude.

 

[pmclaine]

That Shaker place, or one like it, was apparently the inspiration. Difference was, the Shakers A. had a better work ethic and B. weren't opposed to outside trade, having varied diet, using farming animals, or eating "lower" vegetables. Granted, the Shakers died out too but it's the same reason the Amish and Mennonites have lasted so long and Fruitlands didn't.

There's a Shaker village up near Lexington, KY. Neat place, good restaurant there.

Harvard Shaker Village Historic District - Wikipedia

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My bad the Shaker gravemarkers are apparently cast metal......I remember them being cool....

Harvard Shaker Lollipop Graveyard

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

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[Son of Dorn]

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Harvard Shaker Village Historic District - Wikipedia

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My bad the Shaker gravemarkers are apparently cast metal......I remember them being cool....

Harvard Shaker Lollipop Graveyard

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

www.atlasobscura.com

That's pretty neat. Might have to go see that if I find myself up that way one day.

 

[hlee]

The problem faced by all fringe religions is how to propagate.

"Elder, how are we going to grow our numbers?"

Mormons- We will practice polygamy and both attract new converts to our religion and grow our members naturally.

Shakers- Celibacy...

 

[jbailey]

Great posts, great pictures. Thanks.

I was at Devens in '92 or maybe '93 for a best Soldier competition. Many moons ago, but I remember the land nav course, the road march, maybe that 900yd range (remember we were stripping and shooting M60s), and certainly the barracks.

I didn't know about Fruitlands, the Harvard Shaker village, or the other history in the area. That is roots of this great country for sure. Keep the pictures coming!

 

[lonegunman762x51]

Socialism and communism always fail because dividing the spoils of another person's labor among the piece's of shit who refuse to work is a terrible idea. Fruitland is that idea and that is why it is a failure.


If you love socialism, join the military. The military is fucking true socialism in action. You make the same money as that piece if shit in supply and those fucktards over in admin.

You literally can have a dozen extra duties, volunteer for six extra projects and work 60 hours a week for the same exact pay as a piece of shit who is currently sleeping in a fuel truck or hiding in a warehouse or playing with himself in the Finance section while watching porn in a government computer.

One of the great joys of military service is that the people who work hard, will always have to work harder and the people who do very little will get the exact same pay and benefits as you do with 1/3rd the labor. They will get promoted to positions of less and less responsibility and never fired and you will take up their slack for them. In 20 years, they will be at the VA claiming your injuries are theirs too and because they had time to go to all those bullshit briefings, they will get 80% and you will get 40% for the same issues.

More people should join and try it out before they get too excited. Hell we have not even discussed the military version of socialized medicine.

 

[pmclaine]

Socialism and communism always fail because dividing the spoils of another person's labor among the piece's of shit who refuse to work is a terrible idea. Fruitland is that idea and that is why it is a failure.


If you love socialism, join the military. The military is fucking true socialism in action. You make the same money as that piece if shit in supply and those fucktards over in admin.

You literally can have a dozen extra duties, volunteer for six extra projects and work 60 hours a week for the same exact pay as a piece of shit who is currently sleeping in a fuel truck or hiding in a warehouse or playing with himself in the Finance section while watching porn in a government computer.

One of the great joys of military service is that the people who work hard, will always have to work harder and the people who do very little will get the exact same pay and benefits as you do with 1/3rd the labor. They will get promoted to positions of less and less responsibility and never fired and you will take up their slack for them. In 20 years, they will be at the VA claiming your injuries are theirs too and because they had time to go to all those bullshit briefings, they will get 80% and you will get 40% for the same issues.

More people should join and try it out before they get too excited. Hell we have not even discussed the military version of socialized medicine.

I knew I should have taken that Finance MOS instead of 03.

 

[RUTGERS95]

absolutely astonishing to see the laws on the books in this once great state

 

[lonegunman762x51]

I knew I should have taken that Finance MOS instead of 03.

You should have.

 

[Lucky Se7en]

Nice to see something on this site a little closer to home…there’s not enough of it