Wrinkle2 Synchronized Shoot 1: Boston Harbor Water in its many forms has been on the minds of people all around the world this year. From the ice storms in Canada that brought down swaths of trees and power lines, to the floods and mudslides in California by the graces of El Nino, to the droughts on the Asian side of the Pacific Rim, many of the events have been captured in panoramas by the people on this list, so I thought it appropriate to have water as my theme on the spring equinox wrinkle.
	The Boston Harbor has played a large role in the life of Boston from its first settlement. Back then Boston was a peninsula with a very narrow neck thought to be a good defense against attack. During the American Revolution when the British had captured Boston (after someone had poured their tea into the water) the harbor became a strategic point for the settlers to determine whether the Brits would launch their attack over the land bridge or over the harbor. One if by land, two if by sea was the signal from the North Church steeple to Paul Revere. Water was also of economic importance to Boston, as its seaport long played a role in its financial development. Now most of those fishing vessels and cargo ships have been replaced by whale watch boats and pleasure craft, but there are still some commercial cargo and lobster boats coming into the wharves in South Boston. In the last 15 years or so the focus on the harbor has been an environmental one; as more and more people try to crowd its banks the harbor has suffered the effects of raw sewage and industrial waste. This was the spot that George Bush effectively began to deflate Michael Dukakis's "Massachusetts Miracle" campaign by taking a boat across its polluted water. Actually his comments were somewhat of a cheap shot since work had already begun to clean up the harbor and, as anyone paying water bills in Massachusetts will tell you, we have been working to improve the sewer infrastructure and treatment plants in order to avoid any future sewage overflows to the harbor.