What a cool story. As the author clarifies at the end, he means Berlin, CT. (It's pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable.) My mother was raised ther

What a cool story. As the author clarifies at the end, he means Berlin, CT. (It's pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable.) My mother was raised there—I grew up not far away—and I still have family in the area. I don't know much about the brickworks, but I have seen the steam shovel mast that the author mentions sticking out of a pond. There's a potato-quality photo of it on the website of the Berlin Historical Society: http://berlincthistorical.org/exhibits-collections/industry/ http://berlincthistorical.org/exhibits-collections/industry/