One antique selectman, the fave of many local snobs, has really outdone himself. He has designated North Street as the new Combat Zone, a place for well-heeled drunks to congregate while discussing nanny-boffing and watching their wives wash down their Percosets with imported beer.
The selectman in question, Hingham's Fairy Godmother, has spearheaded many of Hingham's post-Greenbush disasters, such as the "beautification of Hingham Square". He betrays his age in bad '50's design, i.e. the Quincy Shipyard-style sidewalks of cement and new brick. ( And the phallic granite marker stuck strangely out by the curb. Marking what, exactly?) I guess this town is values its historic atmosphere so much that we need to dot the town committees with the Ancients.
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