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of the colonial postal system, his task was to clarify charges for the delivery of mail. More than a dozen red sandstone markers can still be found along a stretch of roads just west of Worcester, Massachusetts. Finding them makes a great scavenger hunt.
New bifocals have presented me with a new viewscape and the twin-lens reflex camera mirrored this doubling of viewpoint, suggesting a near-field/far-field approach. The challenge remains accepting the dual view and looking past “the line.” I also tend to root out temporal differences in the views: the near focus allows the illusion of experiencing the stones in Ben’s time while far focus almost always exposes an aspect of the present.
