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Andrew Cline has been editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader since October of 2001. His writing has appeared in more than 100 newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and National Review.Many chose Millyard canals as watery grave
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Reader commentsThere are a lot of old-timers (like me) who wish the canals that once ran through the heart of Manchester's mills had been preserved -- they were filled in during an outbreak of urban renewal in the late '60s -- but as my recent hair-raising research will soon illustrate, many of us may be alive today simply because the canals are gone.
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It's too bad they didn't at least try to preserve one of the canals. They are quite an attraction in the downtowns that have them.
I hate that I wasn't able to get to see the mill complex before the urban renewal.
- Bill, Manchester
Boy, this is a really hilarious column. I never realized that mocking people who have become so despondent that they try to kill themselves could be so much fun!
Like the description of Mrs. Glancy. Jumps in the canal and then immediately wants to be saved. Typical woman. Can't make up her mind. Will probably jump in again the next day. Ha Ha Ha!
Or Mr. McKendree. He jumped in, but then found that the water was wet! That's a real knee slapper!
I liked Mr. Foss's note. Lost his money and his friends. Can you say loooooser!!!
Ha Ha Ha!!!!!
This could lead to some more columns from Mr. Clayton. How about one that ridicules people who have jumped off bridges? He could make some funny jokes about how they changed their minds on the way down, but their misadventure ended with a THUD! or maybe even a SPLATT!
Another great idea would be to do a column about people who shot themselves in the head. Mr Clayton could ask what was the last thing that went through the poor victim's mind? Answer: A bullett! Ha Ha Ha!! Get it? A bullett! Mr. Clayton could really yuk it up with a great subject like that.
To be serious, the tone of this column was jovial and insensitive - to say the least. I suppose Mr. Clayton gets a pass because this is not his usual style, but I do not find the subject of suicide the least bit funny or entertaining.
- Wrongway Noodleman, Manchester, NH
Bill in Wolfeboro...way to inject your political beliefs into a story that wasn't the least bit political. You've got your own agenda...take it over to the discussion about healthcare. I work in one of the Mill buildings along the river and I have to commend Dean Kamen on the work he has done with these buildings.
- Peter, Manchester
The canals really aren't needed any more. The Republican Heathcare Plan will accomplish the same thing.
Don't get sick, but if you do, die quickly.
- Bill, Wolfeboro
The canals are also what prevented the sort of flooding that ruined the lower floors of the mill buildings a few years ago. They were designed to let floodwaters pass beneath the buildings, not through them!
People fail to realize that their ancestors were better engineers than they are.
- Mike R., Bedford
I have often half joked but, not really a joke that a canal should be reinstalled as a tourist attraction on Hampshire Lane from West Merrimack St to city hall. It would make a GREAT tourist attraction for downtown with a gondolier boat running for rides much like as seen in Venice. This would create an updated version of our city's history and character in a functional, money making form.
- Greg Barrett, Manchester
I remember quite well a Mans body being pull from a canal. I must have been very young but I can still see him being pulled up without the delicacy they use today. They use to drag the canal with hooks. There was no divers back then.
- Don, Cape Coral, fl
The article states that the canals "were filled in during an outbreak of urban renewal in the late '60s ". This certainly must be a typo because I KNOW John knows the city's history inside and out. I remember crossing both canals on Dow St. to go to my very first job in 1977 at Winwood Sportswear in the clock tower building. You never knew what color the water was going to be in the lower canal. One day red, then next day purple. A year later I went to work at Pandora on So. Commercial and I remember playing frisbee on my lunch break in the sand that had filled in the lower canal. It was then that the urban renewal began. Great article, as always John!!! Brought back some memories!!
- Kim Daigle, Kailua-Kona, HI.
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