Originally Posted by
Out of my Element
Yes. Alewife is a Native American name for herring, and Braintree is a Native American name for "where giant malls be"
LOL! In the 90s, I worked at the retail store Bradlees, which was headquarted in Braintree. Pretty much all of us who worked there agreed that Bradlees had no business being based in a town with "brain" in the name.