Quonset Hut Crisis 2: Bad News

Historians Richard Symmes and Matt Pujo return to the rare veteran village Quonset hut in Hamilton, MA and discover the trees have been cleared and an excavator has been parked on the site. A rep. from Historic New England had recently expressed interest in the building but the developer showed very little interest in reaching out to that organization. Instead, he seems to have pushed forward with the scheduled demolition of this well-preserved civilian Quonset hut without much regard for its high historic value. It is likely the last intact and untouched example of a hut from a post war veteran village left standing but that never seems to be a concern to many developers.

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• 32 Garfield Ave

[SFICA9]

A shame no one helped us. Footage of the hut's demolition will be posted by Veteran's day.

[SFICA9]

Can you elaborate? I don't know what "seriously" is suppposed to mean.

[Fenix1226]

A shame.

[jampmayer]

seriously?