Mazda wheelbarrows, and more Francis Parkman

Now, that's a wheelbarrow. Perfect for 90% of everyday truck tasks. Right-hand drive might get a little spooky on I-90 but it's fine for Beacon Hill, where AL spotted the worky little Mazda flatbed/pickup. Chestnut Street, just a block down from Francis Parkman's house. 

(Here's another Mazda wheelbarrow, the 2200; and photographer Bill Burelson's 1994 Mazda pickup. The Ford Courier was a rebranded Mazda truck.)

Don't know if you caught our post on Parkman yesterday, which started with a Ferrari in St Louis and after some circuitous routing, somehow concluded with a link to Parkman's multi-volume 19th c. opus, France and England in North America...

Biking back to Cambridge today from teaching a class in the Theater District, I looked up Parkman's house on Chestnut Street...

...and then, with weird synchronicity, while wandering in the depths of the Widener Library at Harvard, searching for something else, I stumbled upon-

-an ancient set of volumes comprising Parkman's France and England in North America, more readily available in the 2-volume Library of America edition published in the 1980s.