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This is Jenna Barry at the Medford Public Library. Um, it is July 10th, 2024, and I'm here with Josh Hansen, and he's going to be talking about the fells. I grew up not too far away from the Fells, so I remember just always being confused about

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what it was. To me, the Fells always referred to like the Fells way when I was younger, just everyone knows, you know, was it Route 16. I never really thought about the actual reservations until I was a little bit older, but I do remember going through

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the occasional hike through them when I was younger. One in particular was if you go all the way up. I believe it's off of um. Is it South border road? One of the trails off South Border Road, yeah. If you go all the way up to

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the top, there's a lookout tower that's still there and that you can't go inside anymore. And when I went inside, you probably shouldn't have been able to go inside of it. It's very, very old and coming apart at the seams, but it was one of the

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coolest things that you'd ever see. It overlooks all of Medford and of course you go up there, you do the classic, I can see my house from here. But you see the best view of the Boston skyline and it just. It was an amazing piece of

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Medford history that I feel like everyone who's been here for quite some time, everyone knows that tower. I mean, it still stands up there if you're going across uh Felthway West if or if you're on Salem Street, if you can see the Fells, you usually see

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it up there still above the tree line. So it was just it was all stonework, and it wasn't like masonry, it was just kind of like cobblestone stuck together with mortar. And they restored it a few times and they tried their best, but it's just not

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really safe now, but the overlook is still there and it's a beautiful place and I highly recommend that anyone check it out if they can, um, but yeah, that's just if you've lived in Medford for any period of time, you know that spot immediately, and it's

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a beautiful walk up there. So