Jill Sinclair

The first book published about Fresh Pond, this examines the pond and its surroundings through the advent of English settlement through the present, outlining the various uses to which people have put the pond and its waters (including the ice trade, amusement park, drinking water for the city of Cambridge, &c.). Illustrated nicely with photographs and maps. Probably of interest to locals or those who enjoy landscape/environmental histories.

This is a fun book. It is a little earnest, and a little over-detailed in places but there are lots of pictures (black and white) and interesting history. I wish my memory was better, and I wish she had talked a little about the development of the area North of Concord Ave...after all, the Internet was invented there...but I guess that wasn't in her purview.