<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c81b570e-7079-4062-8a6c-defceaf43834/00E80C47-B449-4785-AD5E-3F668D09EC00/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://chazzw.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/teddy-bears-picnic/" href="http://chazzw.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/teddy-bears-picnic/" style="font-size: 11px;">chazzw.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chazzw.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/teddy-bears-picnic/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link to Teddy Bear’s Picnic" rel="bookmark" href="http://chazzw.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/teddy-bears-picnic/">Teddy Bear’s Picnic</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chazzw.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/teddy-bears-picnic/"><P><A href="http://www.readerville.com/index.php/journal/view/for-the-good-of-the-race/"><IMG height="96" width="96" alt="teddy-bears-picnic" src="http://chazzw.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/teddy-bears-picnic.jpg?w=96&h=96" title="teddy-bears-picnic" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1910" />Karen T’s piece</A> at Readerville reminded me of the treasure trove I discovered years ago in a similar situation.  Back in the ’70’s, we had just purchased a fine old Victorian style three-story house in the then still-to-be-gentrified neighborhood of Boston’s Jamaica Plain. Dirt floor cellar, two floors, and a livable (with-work) attic. Detached two-car garage (with small shed/workshop). Side yard with a huge and constantly leaf dropping Gingko. This was before I’d ever heard of <EM>biloba</EM>. Before Sam Adams moved in. Before ‘water cafe’s’. Before JP Licks. Before most of the bars and pubs gave way to organic restaurants. A great mix then of townies, young working class couples, and Latino restaurants. But who’s kidding who? I was just the early wave of gentrification.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chazzw.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/teddy-bears-picnic/"><P>But attics too are scary in a similar way (and I’ve never camped in one). And yes, they can hold the same surprises, huh?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/00E80C47-B449-4785-AD5E-3F668D09EC00/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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