The Great Bore
A Souvenir Of The Hoosac Tunnel

59 ground which separates them. Church street, with its substantial brick dwellings, pretty homes and well-kept lawns, is the handsomest resident street in the town. Just south of Briggs’ avenue, on Church street, is the new Church street school house. The Park, delightfully located on the hill-side to the east of the village, consisting of some twenty acres of land and a grove of tall pines ^nd_spruces> was given to the town by Mr. S. A. Kemp. Its in- viting shade, cool fresh air and commanding views, make it a pleasant resort and a spot which will rich- ly repay the sight-seer for visiting. It is provided with swings, a band-stand and dancing pavilion, and on its edge a large summer hotel is in process of erection. From the Park observatory, a tower sixty- feet high, the Hoosac mountains can be seen to the east, the Hoosac valley to the south, the Saddle range, the Taconics and the Williamstown valley to the west and the Green mountains to the north. In descending East Main street the hills and homes of Clarksburg and Houghtonville can be seen to the right. Further on and at some distance below the street, the houses in the Union and W il- low Dell hug the banks of the north branch of the Hoosac. To the left, with the parsonage on one side and the modest home of the French sisters on the other, is the church of Notre Dame of the gacred Heart. Below the church, to the right, is