{"id":469,"date":"2009-10-16T20:53:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T20:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2009-10-16T20:53:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T20:53:34","slug":"a-whale-of-a-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/10\/16\/a-whale-of-a-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"A whale of a tale"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Whale
Whale beached at Ah-de-nah, October 20, 1948. By Ethel Packard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the 1948 Annual Report of the Town of Kingston,<\/em> the Board of Health reported:<\/p>\n

On October 20th, 1948, a fin-back whale came ashore north of the town pier [today’s town landing] at the foot of River Street. Measuring 42 ft. in length and weighing approximately 30 tons, this would ordinarily have been a human interest story, but it developed into a Board of Health problem when this Board was forced to dispose of the mammal.\u00a0 Our Highway Department with the assistance of power machinery, loaded the whale on a heavy-duty platform trailer and carried it to the Town Dump where it was suitably buried.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After the dump closed a few years later, the Kingston Drive-In was built on the site.\u00a0 Today this location is occupied by Summerhill Plaza, so yes, indeed, there is a whale buried under the Stop-n-Shop!<\/p>\n

\"Whale
Whale beached at Ah-de-nah, October 20, 1948. By Ethel Packard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the 1948 Annual Report of the Town of Kingston, the Board of Health reported: On October 20th, 1948, a fin-back whale came ashore north of the town pier [today’s town landing] at the foot of River Street. Measuring 42 ft. in length and weighing approximately 30 tons, this would ordinarily have been a human … <\/p>\n

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