Boston needs water. The engineers know where to find it. But four towns stand in their way ... "I am entirely a creature of my life's sad events, committed to patience now, to endurance if nothing else. I am a part of my surroundings and they are all contained in me. Girl expecting the water." - Polly McPhee, Greenwich, Massachusetts, 1934 Swift River is the story of Polly McPhee, a native of Greenwich, a small central Massachusetts town condemned with three others in 1927 to create a permanent supply of clean water for the people of Boston. One of the most successful and cost-effective civil...
Boston needs water. The engineers know where to find it. But four towns stand in their way ... "I am entirely a creature of my life's sad events, comm...