Snow was no problem for Eddie and Pete

Dan Rodricks

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Snow was no problem for Eddie and Pete

You might not believe it — and sometimes I can’t believe it myself — but this is how the sidewalks in my hometown in Massachusetts were plowed all through my boyhood and at least until after I left East Bridgewater for college. The winters were long, snowy, rainy and gray and, for what seemed interminable stretches of February and March, muddy and intermittenly miserable. Plymouth County only had an average annual snowfall of 37 inches — a numbe…