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8/3/2000

There is never a dull moment during construction projects. Here's what you do when a truck full of sand flips over:

The owner's manual was no help at all, so they just yanked it with the nearest available backhoe.

"Poppy," who earned his nickname playing with explosives as a child, is working on the site of the ten new tennis courts west of the Fieldhouse. His job is to blow up boulders too big to fit in a truck. He's very good at it. That smoldering pile at the end of two wires is a 14-yard rock that has just been detonated with a quarter pound of nitroglycerine dynamite.

It is clear that people want the streets mentioned in previous columns to have hilarious names, like "Lois Lane" and "Easy Street." A Street-Naming Committee, however, apparently stacked with compassionate conservatives, opted for "Barn Road" and "Boathouse Lane."


A spineless Street-Naming Committee in deliberation.

I am out of the office till about August 21, and will post the next Chuck's Corner at that time.

The Barn on Barn Road.
The Alan Shepard Boathouse, at the end of Boathouse Lane.