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Could you pick out Wellesley on a map? How would you describe its shape?

August 18, 2020 by Bob Brown 4 Comments

Many of us can identify most states when we see them on a map. Well, at least Massachusetts, California, Florida, and Texas. Not so much cities and towns across Massachusetts, including Wellesley itself, we’d guess.

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At least that’s what I’ve gleaned from reading online comments by Wellesley residents and others trying to pick out their community on recent COVID-19 infection rate maps.

Which leads me to ask:

  • What does the town’s outline actually look like? How would you find it beyond knowing it is cornered by the Mass Pike and Rte. 95?
  • How would you describe the shape?
  • Does it look like any sort of animal or anything else? I’m seeing, maaaybe, a little bit of a tail-less sperm whale with its mouth at the southwest corner. Or Whale-sley, as one reader suggested.

Any help here?

wellesley shapewhale

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  1. J says

    August 19, 2020 at 7:50 pm

    The head and neck of a bald eagle. Beak upper right.

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  2. Dwin Schuler says

    August 19, 2020 at 9:37 am

    I see s chicken’s head and beak the upper right corner and the 2 feet in the lower left

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  3. S Hawkinson says

    August 19, 2020 at 7:58 am

    The head of a smiling T-Rex perhaps?

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  4. LR says

    August 19, 2020 at 7:56 am

    I’ve given this challenge to former News reporter Adam Gaffin (now of the must-read Universal Hub), who described Natick’s outline as looking like a dog about to bite Framingham. When the going gets tough, I find Natick first and then Wellesley.

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