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1、MichelleTiuMarch16th,200421H.421–IntroductiontoEnvironmentalHistoryProfessorRitvoNeverForgotten:TheTownsoftheSwiftRiverValleyWhenBostonisinneedofmorewater,Massachusettslookswestwardforasolution.Intheearlytwentiethcentury,itwasdecided,onceagain,thatWesternMassachuse
2、tts’naturalresourceswouldholdtheanswertoBoston’swaterproblems.Duringthe1920’s,constructionbeganontheQuabbinReservoir,aprojectthatwouldremedythestate’swaterproblems,butwouldleavemuchturmoilinitswake.ByconstructingtheQuabbinReservoir,theSwiftRiverValley,aswellasthefo
3、urtownsofDana,Enfield,Greenwich,andPrescott,wereovertakenanddestroyed.ThereisagreatdealofinformationavailableonthesefourlosttownsofQuabbin.J.R.Greene,alife-longresidentofAthol,MassachusettsandalocalexpertontheQuabbinReservoir,wrotethecomprehensivebook,TheDayFourQua
4、bbinTownsDied.TheentirebookisanexcellentresourceforinformationontheQuabbintowns,spanningfromtheirpasttotheirunfortunatedestruction.Greeneattemptsto“recreatetheSwiftRiverValleyatthetimeitsfourtownsofficiallypassedoutofexistence”(6),bygivingdetaileddescriptionsofboth
5、localandnationalconcernsofthetime.Inadditiontoprovidingbasicfactsandhistoriesofthetowns,Greenealsodocumentsthetownspeople’sreactionstotheirimminentend.Further,theappendicesprovidealistofTownRecordsandDisincorporationLaws,aswellasarecordofTownOfficials,ResidentsandV
6、oters.MichaelTougias’sQuabbin:AHistoryandExplorer’sGuideisanothervaluableresourceonthetownsoftheQuabbinReservoir.Tougiastakesanall-encompassinglookatthefourtowns,analyzingtheirpastthroughamyriadofpictures,histories,andfirst-handaccounts.In“ThePast:Part1,Creatingthe
7、Quabbin”(2-21),TougiastellshowtheSwiftRiverValleywasclearedofitspropertyandresidents.Ofnotearethesectionsentitled“CleaningtheValley,”“Cemeteries:Removing7500Dead,”and“NegotiatingtheSaleofProperty”(whichincludescopiesoftheactualformsandnoticesusedbythetowns).Hethent
8、akesamorepersonalapproachinthenextsections,“ThePast:Part2,TheLostTowns”(29-70)and“ThePast:Part3,ForgottenHistoryoftheRegion”(80-85),bytellingthes
