The Southshore Broadsheet goes Expose!
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Dubious projects continue to be rolled out by the Koch Maladministration and the South Shore Broadsheet has rolled out coverage on a second instance of the maladministration looking to be engaging in the arguable misuse of public funds to throw up religious-themed artwork.

As the broadsheet has owned these stories, Quincy Quarry is going a different way with this latest display of bad taste by the Koch Maladministration as well as arguable illegality by bringing in its landscape design critic Frederick “Cinco” Law Olmstead V to review the latest fail by the Koch Machine.

Frederick “Cinco” Law Olmstead V

Central Park, New York City. An Fredrick Law Olmstead landscape design
A New York Time Image

One of the greatest contributions to landscape design by my great, great, great grandfather is his maxim that less is more even if such is surprisingly hard to achieve.

He also was adept at creating landscape designs that looked as if they had always been as they are when viewed. something which is also far from easy to achieve.

Further, his advising of how to see how Yosemite Valley in the Yosemite National Park could facilitate the crush of people looking to enjoy the spectacular natural scenic wonders of the valley as well as set the framework for doing the same in other national parks.

A cluttered up Charlies Foxtrot at Mt Wollaston Cemetery
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And in the case of cemeteries, my great, great, great grandfather similarly set a high bar with the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. 

The just recently installed Sea Street entrance gate to the Mt. Wollaston Cemetery, however, can only be described as an incongruous eyesore, if not also variously an abomination.

Key to understanding this view is that the Mt. Wollaston Cemetery is of the Rural Cemetery style arouse during the mid-nineteenth century as the US population was growing rapidly and thus dying in greater number followed.

Quincy has a Koch problem
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At the same time, part of the charm of the Rural Cemetery design ethos was its orderly layout but featuring custom and thus often engaging headstones as well as the occasional family crypt here and there.

Conversely, the new gate that has given rise to “Gategate” does no such thing.

Madre mia — che putz!
A Domenico Stinellis/AP file photo

For starters, the gate is of a design incongruous with its setting.

At best, one could view the gateway as a faux take on Victorian style and laden with decorative features riff with Christian iconography. 

While understandable design features for a cemetery, specific faith features are inappropriate for display on public property within this particular cemetery, especially for a wholly new gate as opposed to something long in place and thus historical..

Knock, knock, knocking on Heaven’s door
A file photo

Further, the new gate is tacky at best. 

The gate is a faux copy of a sort featuring all but identically stamped and molded features and identically consistent dimensions new steel members fabricated as opposed to handcrafted work by skilled iron workers.

Additionally off-putting is how the gate is rife with gold covered features that to put it mildly are both excessive in number and ultimately tacky.

Moreover, should anyone cares to question this review, locals and others yet have chimed in with similar sentiments.

Frederick “Cinco” Law Olmstead V

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