But We Already Have a Four Corners

As the construction company of Howard, Howard, and Fine (Hey, Moe looks like we hit another pipe, but this one has Curly ten feet in the air on a gusher of water!) continue their outstanding work at Five Corners, questions have emerged. Important questions. Like when this work of engineering genius is finished will there still be five corners at Five Corners. If the Five Corners Historical Sign has to be removed for truthiness purposes South Easton will lose another major tourist attraction, a major blow to an area hit hard by the closing of the dump.

Rest assured cracked researchers are deeply involved in this case! It seems that Five Corners never existed anyway. It should actually be Three plus Two Corners which, of course, even in South Easton adds up to Five. Look at it this way; the northern part of Bay Road runs into Depot Street just before Depot hits Foundry and the southern part of Bay Road at the lights. OK, that might make it Four Plus One Corner, but it still adds up to Five. One suspects that some South Easton booster, perhaps associated with Josiah Keith's Tavern or Joel Drake's or Rohdin's store, created the name to entice folks to come down from North Easton to look at this unnatural wonder. The fact that so many tourists slid off the road at Dead Man's Curve and had to be towed was just a big bonus for the locals.

So, concluding the first part of the sermon, moving the northern part of Bay Road a few feet to the east doesn't really change anything except you'll now be able to dart across traffic directly into Dunkin Donuts.

By the way Four Corners has its own Historical Sign at Highland Plaza.

Your eye team also interviewed the gas company employee who marked the gas pipe at Easton's Big Dig, and he says he marked the gas pipe carefully. However, someone in the construction company, Larry or maybe Moe, scraped the road down taking the paint indicating the pipeline with it. So the theory that lots of things pipes and other flotsam and jetsam including the lost treasure of Josiah Keith might be down there and not known about by Dig Safe goes by the boards. No need for treasure hunters to descend on the area and add their own random holes. Trust me someone rolls a dice each day to learn where Mass DOT should dig another hole.

Old timers will tell you that the back-ups down 106 towards Mansfield have not yet reached the record length seen before the completion of 495. In those days the line of stopped traffic stretched all the to the Mansfield line. Unfortunately, those traffic snarls only occurred on summer weekends while the current disaster happens on a daily basis. Readers may have noticed that we have a recession going on. Add that to the Big Dig and some popular Easton institutions may not make it to benefit from the "big improvement" in transportation. Talking to a business owner just south of the Five Corners, he expressed concern that his business might not survive to the end of the year.  So hitch up your mule teams, pretend to be pioneers moving west on the rutted dirt roads of yesteryear, and continue to support the businesses at Five Corners!