Farther down the road, looking across North Cove to the Connecticut River, are the more substantial, more expensive houses.
Three U-shaped tuning tubes, ranging from 8 to 18 feet long, will be wired with microphones and suspended over the North Cove.
But, he added, "They're going around the world; we don't want them to run aground in North Cove."
The peripatetic pair continued to the outdoors, to the man-made indentation called North Cove, which is being finished as a marina.
The fill was used reclaim the North Cove, which became the Bullfinch Triangle neighborhood of streets.
A shrine to the firefighters and police officers who were killed still stands in the North Cove, accumulating photographs, letters, flags, candles and flowers.
Route 154 soon turns north, passing just to the west of North Cove.
Symphony was at North Cove, by the World Financial Center, on Sept. 11, 2001.
It is effectively merged with the village of North Cove which constitutes a separate parish.
The same erosion also claimed some four square miles of North Cove, on the coast adjacent to the lighthouse, as well as the lifesaving station.