Keeping the gaslights lit in Worcester
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WORCESTER, MASS. — They've been
WORCESTER, MASS. — They've been knocked aslant by wayward cars, snapped by falling trees, targeted by pellet gun snipers and periodically marked for extinction by forward-looking mayors and city managers since the 1950s.
And, yet, a few remaining gaslights, some of them more than a century old, continue to cast a warm Victorian glow on parts of modern Worcester. Twenty-seven gaslamp street lights have survived here for generations alongside their more luminous, coarser electric replacements.
"They look so much nicer than an electric light. I wish there were more of the them throughout the city. But times change," said John Corazzini, who tends to the illumination artifacts in his spare time.
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And, yet, a few remaining gaslights, some of them more than a century old, continue to cast a warm Victorian glow on parts of modern Worcester. Twenty-seven gaslamp street lights have survived here for generations alongside their more luminous, coarser electric replacements.
"They look so much nicer than an electric light. I wish there were more of the them throughout the city. But times change," said John Corazzini, who tends to the illumination artifacts in his spare time.
See complete story at Telegram.com:
http://www.telegram.com/article/20140...
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