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With a w bee Z Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. A kettle or

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kettle lake, pond or hole is
a hole in an outwashed plain, formed

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by retreating glaciers or draining flood waters. And because there's a book on every

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subject, why not that it's called
Beyond Walden The Hidden History of America's Kettle

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Lakes and Ponds by Robert Thorson.
Unlike other types of lakes that a water

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flowing in from outlet streams, kettle
lakes are natural wells that tap the ground

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water table. But they're more than
just a geological phenomenon. So many kettle

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lakes, many of them in Massachusetts, Cliff Pond, Fresh Pond, Jamaicu

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Pond, Hoton's Pond, and Yes, Walden Pond have character. There's an

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essence of nature combined with spirituality,
and thanks to Henry David Throw Walden became

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the most famous of all kettle ponds. The book explores the freshwater ecosystem and

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the home spun American lore of these
waterways, reaching from New England to the

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high plains of the United States.
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