Why The Middleboro (Middleborough) Is The Middle-Boro

Life in Southeastern Massachusetts can be beautiful, blighted or balmy... or all these exquisite qualities and characteristics experienced at the same time.

It's that unique a Geo-Polar-Magnetic-Social-Nuclei (nexus) at works.

Okay, life here is nuts, even if the locals don't recognize this for themselves, but so what, it's a trip, a voyage, an experience one should immerse themselves in at least for a year of their lives.

And right in the middle of Southeastern Massachusetts --  just go ahead there and throw a dart at the map of Southeastern Massachusetts and have it land somewhere in the center of the region and you'll find yourself in the Middle-Boro (which used to be the Middlebury or Middleberry and before that, Nemasket or Namasket) with its tableaux and pastiches of history, mystery, intrigue and lust.

The Middle-Boro is not the city or the country, suburbs or the rural area: it actually can't decide for itself what it is. It just is and who am I to argue?

This indecisiveness is part of its charm or its dereliction of  duty. It's not for me to decide, and the town, the second largest in terms of area in the state of Massachusetts is quite happy to be the way it is.

It's a place that can be magical or as tart as the acid in her soil, which is perfect for growing her famous cranberries and other goodies such as wild blueberries. Middleboro is indeed as her bumper sticker states: Berry Good!

And while there are "eight million stories in the naked city," as someone famous once said, and a heap more in the semi-clad suburbs and fully-clothed rural areas, the people of the Middle-Boro are not much of an exhibitionist spirit usually and generally keep their attire on, but stories to tell they have many, just listen to the whispers of the woodwork, the Cape Cod style homes, the glitzy strip malls, and the blood red of Middleboro's noted cranberry bogs.

The Middle-Boro is sui generis. All ye who enter here will be lost in in the mists and amidst its history, touch of bloodshed and interesting accomplishments. And that's the way we Swamp Yankees like it.

So, treat the Middle-Boro well and enjoy her while you can.... 

Image Credit: https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/a_public_swear_jar_middleborou.html