Alan Davis at his Eagle Scout Court of Honor last Sunday, receiving a commendation from State Senator Bruce Tarr on behalf of the Mass General Assembly
Roger LaRae Davis write,
“First, thanks for the blog last month on Alan Davis’s Digital Dogtown project. Â He received his Eagle Scout award this past Sunday at the Troop 112 Court of Honor.
Just a couple of days later the Boston Globe and  Gloucester Daily Times reported on the vandalism of the Eagle Scout project in Dogtown.  Interviews of Alan appeared on the three tv network news programs, as well as WBZ radio.”
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According to the Boston Globe article, “Noel Mann, a member of Gloucester’s Open Space and Recreation Commission, said that many people in the area don’t want the Dogtown trails flooded with tourists. “[Trail guideposts] have been consistently vandalized for the last 20 years, maybe longer,” she said. “We would love to know who is doing this but nobody does.”
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Roger continues, “There has been a tremendous outpouring of community support and offers of assistance for the repair of the project, with offers of ideas, money, materials and labor. Â We really hope that with all this publicity, the community can take ownership of this project, so that it becomes more than just Alan’s project, but Gloucester’s project.”
For any questions, please call Roger at 978-559-1190 or email Alan at digital.dogtown@gmail.com.
Jason Grow adds, “I’d like to see if our community could rally and help Alan Davis rebuild his “Digital Dogtown” project…Some money, some volunteerism, some materials donations? I’ve got a call into his father, O’Maley Middle School science teacher Roger Davis, to see what this would cost and what would be needed to help Alan replace his project. If you’d like to help out, let me know; send an email toÂ
jasongrow@comcast.net and I’ll see what, if anything, we can do. It would be terrific if we could, as a community, show the knuckleheads who did this that stupidity doesn’t win.”
One of the posts still in good condition, showing the map and QR code.
One post with its map and QR code ripped off.
Alan next to a post after it was put in place last Fall. Â This post links to a web page explaining the role of the forest as a filter for the watershed feeding the city’s water supply in Babson Reservoir. Â
This is all that is left of that post.
Eagle Scout Zach Schultz helping to install a post.
Alan next to the post near the “Spiritual Power” boulder. Â This post linked to a biography of Roger Babson, the author of the motto stones in Dogtown and the Gloucester philanthropist who donated the Dogtown watershed land to the city for its reservoir. Â This post is now gone, disappeared.
Alan (second from left) and fellow scouts of Gloucester’s Troop 112 with the post installed at Whale’s Jaw. Â From left, Todd and Noah Tierney, Alan Davis, Craig Renales, and Jeb Hogan.
The same scene at Whale’s Jaw now, with only a stick left in the hole where the post was removed, apparently burnt.
Notice the burnt log and burnt grass near the hole at Whale’s Jaw.
A Dogtown hiker scanning the QR code from the post set at the Dogtown entrance, 45 minutes after the post was installed.
The post at the entrance parking area, apparently broken off by a car or truck. Â The splintered remains of the post have since been removed entirely, leaving only a hole in the ground.
Scouts and leaders installing the last post. Â This post has now been broken up. Â From left, Todd Tierney, Wayne Moulton, Tyrell Moulton, Roger Davis (holding the post), Alan Davis (behind his father), Dave Wheeler, Jeb Hogan, Craig Renales and Noah Tierney.
All images courtesy of Roger LaRae Davis.
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