Mary Myers, who lives near Philadelphia, has long looked forward to visiting Boston. Finally, she made it. Had a great time exploring history - except for finding the Boston Massacre site. Seems she couldn't find any locals who knew where it was:
... I searched high and low on the Freedom Trail for this spot, asking vendors and even a park ranger about it. Even the advice of the kind park ranger couldn’t help me find it. Then….a-ha….it appears on an island in the middle of the road! Now, I didn’t come all this way for nothing, so we braved the cars going to and fro to stand on the spot, which is commemorated by a small plaque embedded in the ground. Just gave me chills, thinking of all the people that fought, and died even without fighting, to gain and preserve our freedom. ...
David Cavell took these two photos from the Airport station on the Blue Line; wonders what possessed the driver of the car to try to Warp Speed it through the water:
Meridith Spencer watched the new waterfall at Downtown Crossing:
Let's see what was flooded out: The Jamaicaway, Storrow Drive, Land Boulevard, Washington Street and McGrath Highway in Somerville. Cars reported trapped in water in Dorchester and West Roxbury; cars on McGrath might be under 15 feet of water (15 feet?!?).
Somebody's plastered the South End with these missing-scooter posters. John M. took this picture, along with a couple more examples here and here. Anybody know bluescootergirl and if she's found her scooter - and if she's familiar with this supposed interchange between a designer and a co-worker with a missing cat?
The Outraged Liberal takes note of the anti-Patrick blue line outside a Fenway Park party for visiting governors, says maybe Patrick could have kept his promise to add 1,000 more cops, even with the Great Recession, if only union's such as Nee's would have been willing to regnegotiate contracts over such issues as health-care costs and the Quinn bill:
... Keep all those facts when you listen to Nee and remember he's not part of the solution, he's part of the problem. And he loves playing politics as much as he loves policing. Maybe more.
The state attorney general's office has dammed up Concord's effort to ban water in plastic bottles, saying the Town Meeting measure is all wet. So Thoreau Street is once again safe for the green trucks that are what it means to be from Maine.
