What's with the weird name?

Towers and wells represent perhaps the earliest archetypes for masculine and feminine power, energy, and mystical symbolism. They appear everywhere around us, but also throughout our folk stories, scripture, and myth. In a sense they are the earliest signifiers of the Divine mask: the obelisk for male and the crucible for female. All over the landscape around us are towers and wells. We drive by them every day. Casually, without thinking much about it, we zoom past these figures in the distance that represent the very seeds of life and all its beauty.

When people think of Massachusetts they immediately think about Boston, Cape Cod, and the Berkshires. But nestled between Boston and the Cape is the South Shore. North of Plymouth, with its Mayflower and Plantation, south of Boston with the elegant old Duchess of Baseball that is Fenway, the wide expanse of the Charles, and skylines over the harbor, the South Shore is often forgotten.

Some of the prettiest scenery in New England hides away here, off Route 3, along 3A. There are forgotten jewels along the winding turns of 14. Long Point, Green Harbor, Minot, Saquish... these are idylls of a place that is, perhaps, made up of roads less traveled. Still, these are roads of quiet, unassuming beauty. Some call us the “Working Man's Riviera.” Among the lobster boats and potholes, out there where the sunrise silhouettes one crane on another crane in a harbor being dredged, people live their lives amid a somewhat shopworn, but lovingly used part of Massachusetts that has its own brand of beauty. There are many, many towers and many, many wells, too! Standish Monument, Bug Light, the Brant Rock Tower, the old town wells on the Burma Trail in Green Harbor, Tinker's Well... you get the idea.

This is home for Chrissy Olinger, a freelance writer, artist, and editor. Chrissy owns WebSong Designs (a web design company), is a co-owner and editor for Romance News, a monthly romance literary review magazine, and she writes freelance articles, and essays, as well as publishing romantic fiction under a pen name.

Tower and Well is a lovingly nurtured celebration of all things viewable through a camera lens, and all materials captured and preserved by photographers. Tower and Well offers original, signed prints, stock photo material, photo and image repair services, and custom design. Here you will also find free wallpapers, screen savers, and other goodies. This is just a small way of celebrating life in New England on Massachusetts' South Shore.