{"id":25388,"date":"2019-05-17T05:34:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T02:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=25388"},"modified":"2019-05-17T05:34:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T02:34:59","slug":"york-pond-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/05\/17\/york-pond-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seekonk: York Pond makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Lovecraft’s favourite places in both childhood and adulthood, York Pond in Blackstone Park on the banks of the Seekonk, appears to be set for a pedestrian path makeover. The proposals are dated April 2019 and plan to add… <\/p>\n

“pedestrian improvements along the Boulevard to link the adjacent community to the Seekonk River and incorporate a network of paths along York Pond [to the Seekonk]”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I’m not sure if the paths have backing from the city or not. Possibly they’re just a proposal to help greenwash a development? But if they do go ahead, then is there an opportunity here to site the Lovecraft statue<\/a> as part of these changes? Or some similar memorial? Poe also haunted the shoreline here, which might suggest an artistic plaque or bas-relief depicting Poe and Lovecraft together. At the very least some temporary inaugural installations in wicker-sculpture might be sited around the completed paths, which could use themes drawn from the work of Poe and Lovecraft. Here’s an example of the sort of wicker-sculpture I mean, to be seen each spring near me in my local woods here in the UK…<\/p>\n

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One of Lovecraft’s favourite places in both childhood and adulthood, York Pond in Blackstone Park on the banks of the …<\/p>\n

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