It all began in the year 1398, when the Scottish Earl of Orkney, Sir Henry Sinclair, set out on his voyage from Scotland to Nova Scotia, eventually continuing down into Massachusetts. This voyage is historically supported and documented by the evidence of the Sinclair Knight Templar stone, located in the Town of Westford, Massachusetts.  On this crusade, the Knights Templar ventured West carrying some medieval holy artifacts. It is suspected that they may have also had in their possession an egg from the northern end of Loch Ness in Scotland. The Templars could have buried the egg in the Westford area. If this is in fact true, this could have been the path to the New World from Scotland, and provide a genealogical link between NorPondapuss and Nessie, aka the Loch Ness Monster.
It is suggested in the collaborated book by A. Gore and R. Nader, “Unsafe at Any Temperature Above 32 Degrees”, that global warming commenced about 10,000 years ago and may have peaked around the year 1492, causing the melting of the North American ice shield. This warming could have unearthed the buried egg in Westford and floated it down the Seven Mile River into North Pond. There are no known written records of indigenous people having made any earlier observances of the dragon, however they do have many stories about unusual sightings and serpents around the pond after that date.
It was not until some 275 years later on October 15th, 1673 (350 years ago this year) that the first written documented sighting was made in the area of the two great ponds in Brookfield by one of Brookfield’s founding fathers, Moses B. Rice. The last confirmed sighting was as the ice was just starting to recede from the ponds on a mild Spring day on April 15, 1784 (as the good Brookfield residents were on their way to pay their taxes). That reported sighting was just a fleeting glimpse of the dragon or serpent-type creature seen diving beneath the remaining ice on North Pond. From that time forward the monster was officially referred to as the great NorPondapuss.

Now, she has again reappeared. However, this time she got caught in an early winter freeze and now waits for a return to Spring and the melting ice to allow her to return to the depths of the pond. Surprisingly, she can currently be seen not far from the North Pond boat ramp and causeway.
After you have had a chance to observe her on the ice this winter, you will have a chance to guess the date and time that she will disappear and again return to the icy depths (6 feet or so) at the bottom of the North Pond.