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By adamg - 1/15/23 - 2:23 pm
Today is, of course, the anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood, when a poorly maintained tank of molasses on the North End waterfront exploded at 12:40 p.m. on an unseasonably warm January day, sending a viscous brown tsunami down Commercial Street, killing 21 people and several horses, destroying buildings and bending the elevated. Read more.
By adamg - 1/9/23 - 11:12 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 1/4/23 - 10:37 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 12/29/22 - 12:21 pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 12/21/22 - 10:39 am
The Puritans may not have been quite as dour as we think, but their aversion for celebrating Christmas is well known - and persisted in Massachusetts long after they were gone. Aline Kaplan recounts how 19th-century Boston Unitarians began to change that.
By adamg - 12/13/22 - 2:59 pm
When the first Green Line train pulled out of Medford/Tufts early yesterday morning, somebody dressed in a furry elephant suit was onboard. Read more.
By adamg - 12/8/22 - 11:16 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
Streets in Boston and across eastern Massachusetts are full of old trolley tracks.
By adamg - 12/5/22 - 11:47 am
The Boston City Archives posted a couple of photos of the aftermath of a crash at the Forest Hills elevated station on Dec. 4, 1921, when the last car of a train derailed, causing one train car to fall to the street - narrowly missing a streetcar. No deaths or injuries, unlike a derailment on the el at Beech Street and Harrison Avenue seven years later that killed two and injured several more.
By adamg - 12/2/22 - 9:58 am
More than 170 Boston University student groups have asked the school to rename Myles Standish Hall as Wituwamat Memorial Hall in honor of one of the indigenous leaders Myles Standish massacred in what is now Weymouth in 1623 after inviting them to "a peaceful summit." The university has no connections to Standish; it kept the name after it bought the Myles Standish Hotel in 1949.
By adamg - 12/2/22 - 9:35 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 11/28/22 - 11:41 am
The Boston City Archives recount what happened when Mayor James Michael Curley successfully fought to rid Bromfield Street of young women shining shoes and blacking boots on Bromfield Street in 1917 - when the young men who would normally have done the job were getting ready for war. It was an outrage to public morality, Curley and others - including the Women's Christian Temperance Union - thundered.
By adamg - 11/26/22 - 11:26 am
Richard Auffrey, who's already chronicled the history of Chinese restaurants in Boston, goes across the river to recount the story of Chinese restaurants in Cambridge, with a bonus trip up Rte. 2 to Fitchburg.
By adamg - 11/23/22 - 9:25 am
Peter Muise recounts the hardier pies of yore, so tough that all the pies New England wives made could be stored in the root cellar - without a tin - for weeks: Read more.
By adamg - 11/18/22 - 11:08 am
Mme. Johnson and her hair-products store at 798 Tremont St. in Roxbury.
The Boston City Archives continues its series of interesting tales from the voting roles of Boston women in 1920 with a look at the rise of Black hairdressers in Boston during and after the Great Migration of Blacks from the South to Northern cities. Read more.
By adamg - 11/14/22 - 9:34 am
The folks at Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 11/12/22 - 9:54 pm
This historical marker on Hyde Park Avenue in Hyde Park beckons you to another time, when people rummaged through their pockets for a dime or quarter to call for a ride home or, failing that, made a collect call (station to station, of course, so much cheaper than person to person). Read more.
By adamg - 11/8/22 - 9:37 am
The Boston Archaeology Program is at the Loring-Greenough House in Jamaica Plain, digging down in and under the basement to see what they can find about the site and its early occupants. Read more.
By adamg - 11/6/22 - 9:40 pm
For the past week, members of the Nipmuc and Massachusett tribes gathered daily at the Little Mystic Boat Ramp in Charlestown to burn a large pine log, then carve it out to create a mishoon or traditional canoe.
Wraithe was there when they put the canoe into the water for the first time today. Read more.
By adamg - 10/27/22 - 12:58 pm
The Dig sets the Wayback Machine to the 1950s and details how the CIA came to pay for the Boston Symphony Orchestra to tour Europe. Yes, the Cold War was involved.
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