Mr. Surette's Interview June 27th 2007
Trefry’s pond, where Kent Building supplies is now is where Mr. Surette and many others would skate and play hockey. It was a huge rectangular pond with a circular island in the middle. We had fires there and tied our skates on the island. The island was approximately 10 X10 feet. The pond remained full all the times and was very deep and was bigger than a hockey rink. Exactly where Kent’s is now was where the pond was. He remembers this from the early 70’s. The pond could be full of people playing hocking or skating. No fishing happened that he recalls. In summer the pond was still rectangular and would stay pretty full. The pond was channeled in the middle and was like a water fall down the side to where the highway 101 runs now. Trefry sold the land to the highway. At the time it was all open land around there and there were cows and horses. They needed to make the hill flat to build. Starrs road was there and there were houses where Pizza Delight is now; and when they sold them the businesses grew. They wore no equipment when playing hockey. They used rocks or boots for the hockey nets. It was the biggest skating pond in town. It was all marsh from Kent’s right down to YJHS. The crusher, which was located behind the town maintenance building, was where they would also skate. This marsh area also fed into Broad Brook at the time. There were lots of deer, ducks and wildlife in this area.
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