“The Quabbin Reservoir covers almost 40 square miles, and has more than 100 miles of shoreline. It was built in the late 1920’s to provide water for the eastern part of Massachusetts. Five towns in the Swift River Valley were seized and razed to make the project possible.” –Mary Smith, “Birding the Quabbin”
Weird parallels between Jack White and Michael Jackson abound in a Kennedy/Lincoln assassination sort of way. It’s not just that “My Doorbell” sounds like a B-side off of “ABC”: for starters, they both began their early careers looking distinctly genre-appropriate, MJ sporting a Jerry Curled, high-collared 80’s dance-funk look, JW mop-haired and bicep t-shirted. But [...]