Dean, those quarries had stolen cars dumped in them. They were dangerous places to dive into.

Here is a Picture of Dad hunting ,sitting in the Back Corner of my 5 Acre Field ,I could drive the Jeep right up to our spot ! As you can see I stash my Building supplies there and they make a Handy Shooting bench for an Elderly Gentleman ! Dad is carrying his Pre 64 Model 70 Feather Weight Chambered in 270 which is now mine ! Little did we know this would be his last Whitetail hunt ! He is in his early eighties here and at this point in his life never stopped talking ,I remember saying to him Dad you are never going to kill a Buck today if we don't stop laughing and carrying on ,it didn't matter ! We saw a handful of Deer and a beautiful Red Fox this particular day and had quite a Good Time of it !

An acquaintance of mine in high school, a disturbed individual, drove a ‘54 Chevy off the cliff into it. He survived only to hang himself in his girlfriend’s back yard a year later.





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Oh, those quincy quarries. The stories they could tell.

Russ, your story of you and your dad warmed my heart. In the last year of his life after fighting ALS for 8 yrs (a medical record at the time), my dad asked me if he could tag along with me for pheasants. He had great difficulty walking and fell down several times. I had to pick him up cause he had no arm strength. Still he carried on. His brittany, gunner, located a cock and up went the bird right in front of us. I shot it and turned to him and said, we are done Dad, im tired. On the way home he said that was the best hunt of his life. Rest in peace Dad.

I was referring to the Rockport quarries.... I know there were a lot more cars and bodies pulled from the Quincy quarries.





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This pic is off topic - no shotguns or dogs to be seen - but all these memories got me kinda teary-eyed and I couldn't resist. This is my dad on his honeymoon with his brand new Ford roadster and ever-present cigarette. The pipe is his, and the watch is his father's. Don't know why, but my family just wasn't snap-shot oriented; this is one of the few pics I have of my dad...

https://i.imgur.com/CfRBYkTl.jpg

Phil, what yr was his roadster?

'28

My Father holding Bobwhite, little boy (my oldest son now 40) holding back action hammer gun choked cork and cork.

Wonderful James