This story is the latest installment in "Past Times," a series about Fall River the way people remember it and the way history recorded it. Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble would have been right ...

Inks Bridge, the river has carved gigantic stepping stones from pink granite and considerately surrounded them with deposits of gravel and water-buffed rocks that include not only gobs of granite ...

and a dozen smooth river rocks balanced in a neat line on the ridge of a chunk of gray granite, like petrified travelers in an airport security line. This idyllic little ripple in space-time was ...