The Other Rust Belt

I found a map on wikipedia that depicted New England as part of the Rust Belt. It had a special blue color to denote it was recovered rust belt. Old money has a way of making anything quaint, I suppose. The old mills and warehouses are becoming apartments, offices, shops, and light industrial. The humidity and the salty ocean air make anything iron bleed accross the landscape. I get it.

For a while, I spent a lot of time with The Dog wandering abandoned areas of the old Pease Air Force base. Maybe just dis-used. Commercial flights have always been touch and go there. The last airline to provide regular service, Skybus, left when the economy collapsed. Since then, the parking lots have been barricaded. The terminal is locked. The area is littered with old military footings and the hulks of failed enterprises.

What wasn't growing was rusting.