I actually spent a day in Carver last month. The Edaville amusement park is or was a small old school little place out in the sticks with a gravel parking lot, but as of August of last year, they now have the one and only “Thomasland” amusement park in the work, all dedicated to Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends, much to the delight of my 4-year-old son! Would hate to see the town ruined like this . . .
I have a lot of connections to this story - I lived in Hanson, Mass for about 8 years, in the heart of cranberry country. I did some work for a sand and gravel company in Carver in the mid to late 80s, I wonder if it was the one this story mentioned. And I now live in the town where Edaville got most of it’s rolling stock, as a matter of fact I just bought a piece of land that includes about 300 feet of the old narrow gauge railroad bed.
I though that area was “God’s Country” until I moved up in the woods in Maine. Boy, this is God’s Country.