A Spring Walk to Work, page 3
Needham Heights to Waltham, 15 April 2006

This old stone foundation is only a few feet from the water's edge, and may have supported a bath house or dressing cabin.

 

Norumbega Tower, on the road of the same name just across Stony Brook from WCRB in Waltham, commemorates a supposed Viking visit to the area. But there's no credible evidence Vikings ever came this far south, the similarity of the name "Norumbega" to "Norway" notwithstanding.

 

This dam, at the Weston/Waltham line, collects the waters of Stony Brook to form the Cambridge Reservoir, the source of that city's drinking water.

 

Just after River Road, Weston becomes South Street, Waltham, the WCRB sign appears on the right.

 

This collection of computers is the source of the World Classical Network, which feeds radio stations across America by satellite. The same programming can be heard in the Boston area on WCRB's secondary HD channel.

 

This is the WCRB on-air studio.

 

And here am I.

 


The WCRB music library contains over ten thousand compact discs.

 

Probably the most incomprehensible slogan in the history of radio appeared on billboards for WCRB in the mid 1990's; this one was on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.

 

A shrubbery!

 

This picture of some cow-orkers and me was taken at a Fourth of July remote broadcast on the Esplanade in Boston in 2000 or 2001.

 

This is Studio 2, one of five production rooms at WCRB.

 

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