Abstract
In Buried Dreams, Andrew R. Black chronicles the largely forgotten effort of Massachusetts to surmount the Berkshires and build a permanent link with the interior in order to retain the Commonwealth’s, and particularly the port of Boston’s economic prominence. This effort, the 4.75 mile-long Hoosac Tunnel, eventually took twenty-four years, ended over one hundred lives, and consumed more than $20,000,000 in state funds. Born of a desire for boundless western bounty, it never fulfilled the lofty expectations its supporters heaped upon it. Predicted by its early enthusiasts (tunnelites) to take but a few years, and presenting few if any engineering or geological challenges to complete, the tunnel proved its harshest and most persistent critics largely correct.
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