PHOTO: This archive photo from the New England Historical Society shows people skating on a lake that used to be in Nonantum. Courtesy Photo
It might seem odd to outsiders that Nonantum’s nickname is “The Lake,” when there’s no large body of water to be found.
But that’s because there used to be one: Silver Lake, which was (mostly) filled in by the 1950s with leftover debris from Storrow Drive…