Century Bog was sold to the state by its last owner, the A.D. Makepeace Company, in 2010, to become part of the Red Brook Wildlife Management Area. Now it’s being restored to the natural wetland that was once there.
As smallpox spread, colonists equated public health with self-governance, demanding that local officials track outbreaks and protect the public from contagion.
This Peabody Award–winning podcast dives into the cynicism that hangs over the topic of American infrastructure. No project embodies that cynicism quite like ‘The Big Dig.’