The Past Floats in the Old Laundry Brook

My kids and their friends have been trying to dam the brook out back. Nature helped last week with a crack of lightning that sent part of an old tree crashing across what the pouring rain would soon create a river of mud. Those logs came in handy.

The Strong Stuff

I think the reason behind the damming was to create a pool of water you could sit in, something more than 6" high. You could also catch some interesting things like an old pitchfork missing one tine and it's handle. Or, an empty bottle of Clorox. I can picture a woman from the 1930's washing clothes in the Laundry Brook, using America's favorite bleach. Tell me, can you picture a man?

Maybe you'll find a bottle in your ancestors' musty basement. If it has a stopper, it's worth a few bucks more. If you wanted to, you could purchase your own old brown bottle on ebay for $15. The bottle might have a story, but it won't tell you what it is. My bottle was used a long time ago in Laundry Brook, who knows where upstream.