In the year 2525, if man is still alive and archeologists find Wood Island Park Station, what will they think it is?
If they know the meaning of the words in our language, and go looking for wood or an island or a park, they will be really confused. One thing they will never ever think it is would be a shelter. There is absolutely no way anyone could ever think Wood Island Park Station is a shelter.
What is the definition of "Shelter" - something that covers or affords protection. Wood Island Park Station has no walls, there is no protection from the wind, rain or snow.
Let’s look at it. As you face the station from the street, there is a lovely garden on the far left totally behind iron bars. No taking time to smell the flowers there. Next to the garden is a long roofed walkway. You can walk under this roof in the rain or snow, and if the rain is falling straight down, you won’t get wet. If there is even a slight wind blowing, you’re wet. When you get to the station entrance, you have to leave the little protection of this roof, walk into the rain, get wet and enter the station. For some reason the entrance to the station that is directly in line with the walkway and under the roof remains locked.
Those future archeologists will probably think this place was a temple in honor of war. Why? Well, look at the location. If they know what a war machine looks like, they will assume pilots of those machines prayed there before battle. Then there are the altars honoring battle dress. Directly in front of the station is a round low bench thing with Darth Vader’s helmet sitting right in the middle of it. It’s supposed to be sculpture, but people sit on it anyway. There are two bumpy cement things near it which are also "art". Not the best seats, but after a day’s work, who cares.
Inside the station, standing on the inbound side, look across the way. There are two pedestal things at each end of the outbound platform. One has what looks like a Mongolian War Helmet and the other is surely the helm of a jousting knight - circa 1600. On the inbound side, there are also two pedestal things at each end. One is an earlier jousting knight helm and the other must be Darth Vader’s everyday helmet, as opposed to the dress helmet outside.
Yes, the Boston Globe did run a story and the person responsible for the "sculptures" said they are temples. Maybe they are, but look at them and see what you think.
Wood Island Park Station is a very nice looking station. However, the people who use Wood Island Station would like to know if the architect ever visited the site during the winter months.
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