Today in the CBO
The View from the BMU
by Nat Wright-Kowalski
17 August 2297 – Greentop Nursery
On certain Tuesdays for the 2297 and 2298 seasons, we will feature one of the settlements where teams in the Boston Minor Union play.
In our fifth trip around the BMU, we will go to a small settlement dedicated to helping feed the Commonwealth, Greentop Nursery.
Then
According to a terminal entry from 2287, "Greentop Nursery was a house with a large greenhouse on the outskirts of Malden.
"Contains a large greenhouse at the bottom of a hill to the north, and a medium sized house similar to the ones in Sanctuary at the top of the hill, with a makeshift bedroom off to the right side. The site contains a chemistry station and cooking station just outside the front door of the main house to the right."
Nate first went to the location as part of a Minutemen quest when super mutants occupying nearby Breakheart Banks, where they slaughtered all settlers there, were starting to harrass the settlers at Greentop Nursery. Nate blasted those super mutants to super mutant heck and the Greentop Nursery settlers pledged their loyalty to the Minutemen cause. Nate also helped return Breakheart Banks back to a livable small farmland for settlers during that time.
Old Gullet Sinkhole
Now
Not much has changed about the Nursery other than some expanded housing and defenses. The town is close to the reestablished Malden, so some of the farmhands live in Malden and make a daily commute, being sure not to fall into Old Gullet Sinkhole, one of the spots where a small nuclear device went off during the Great War and caused a water-filled crater to form with a constant resupply of water from a burst pipe leading from Dark Hollow Pond dripping into the hole. Otherwise, Greentop Nursery is in a safer zone with roads leading directly to Malden to the west, Breakheart Banks to the north, The Slog and Finch Farm to the east, and County Crossing to the south.
Longneck Lukowski's Grave
We had planned to feature the ballpark entrance banners of each of the BMU teams we visited, but we were unable to work that out for the first four installments. When we get a chance to revisit those parks, we will highlight their ballpark banners.
As far as Longneck Lukowski's Grave, it is a field name we at Publick Occurrences love. Other than the factory bearing the Longneck Lukowski name and the sponsorship, we don't know where old LL is buried, so the company made their own little story this year:
"Legend says that Longneck Lukowski, before his days canning meats and fishes for permanent storage in pantries, had a large cache of treasures hidden in Malden before the Great War.
"On October 23, 2077, when he heard that the Chinese were dropping bombs on America, Longneck Lukowski went to retrieve his treasures. Unfortunately, that treasure was directly in the location we now call Old Gullett (sic) Sinkhole.
"Supposedly, the bomb dropped directly on Longneck Lukowski's long neck and buried him deep beneath the ground into an underground cave. Legend says his remains lie directly below Greentop Nursery, in the place we call Longneck Lukowski's Grave."