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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By adamg - 10/26/22 - 12:16 pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 10/21/22 - 11:09 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 10/10/22 - 12:55 pm
Totally unbiased rendering of Howe on trial, done long after she was dead. Source.
Jessica Shrey at the State Library of Massachusetts recounts the story of Elizabeth Howe of Ipswich, hanged as a witch on July 19, 1692, in large part based on the testimony of the Perely family, who owned the neighboring farm and who had feuded with Howe and her late husband for years. Read more.
By adamg - 10/9/22 - 4:54 pm
Eric Moskowitz highlights the work of photographer Jack Lueders-Booth, who captured scenes in a bygone era of life along the long gone Orange Line el. More photos from his collection.
By adamg - 10/4/22 - 10:57 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 9/28/22 - 12:01 pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 9/27/22 - 9:55 am
Boston's archaeology team plans to begin digging in the rear yard of the League of Women for Community Service in Boston headquarters at 558 Massachusetts Ave in October, in advance of the league's plans to do extensive landscaping there. Read more.
By adamg - 9/20/22 - 1:46 pm
The Ice Box in its heyday, when you could buy both ice and bottled water.
An auction in November could mean a new owner for the shuttered Ice Box, 3890 Washington St., where generations of Bostonians went when they needed a lot of ice. Read more.
By adamg - 9/12/22 - 9:44 am
It can be hard to agree with what Texans or New Yorkers have to say about our fair state, but Lawrence Wright, a Texan who writes for the New Yorker, isn't exactly wrong when he observes:
Plymouth Rock has to be one of the most unremarkable artifacts of American history.
By adamg - 9/5/22 - 9:20 pm
In 1962, Edmund L. Mitchell captured a bride being escorted into church in Jamaica Plain as a couple of streetcars passed by.
By adamg - 8/29/22 - 12:11 pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 8/11/22 - 12:29 pm
The remains of the house.
A contractor for local developer Gary Martell's CAD Builders this morning tore down the Greek-revival Keith House on Centre Street to make way for a 21-unit condo building - assuming the project is approved by the BPDA - just two days after ISD issue a demolition permit. Read more.
By adamg - 8/11/22 - 11:14 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 8/3/22 - 9:42 am
James Harold, 79, of Medford, was owner of the Rat in Kenmore Square, in the pre-BU, pre-hotel era, when Mr. Butch held court and Deli Haus served breakfast late into the night. He died Sunday at 79.
Let's Go to the Rat - a documentary.
By adamg - 8/1/22 - 10:27 am
The State Library of Massachusetts posts a copy of an 1847 broadside ad for what we'd now call a subdivision in Woburn:
It boasts that the lots for sale are within a three-minute walk of the train depot, with trains to and from Boston stopping at the station 18 times per day, as well as nearby churches, good schools, and a thriving village. Who wouldn’t want to live near all of these amenities! The lots were good-sized, too, ranging from 6,000 to 15,000 feet and located near Wedge Pond.
By adamg - 7/25/22 - 9:55 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this image (which has the street name blacked out). See it larger.
By adamg - 7/22/22 - 3:40 pm
Then: Engine 3182 stuck on and in the Expressway.
On Aug. 21, 1969, three locomotives being readied to haul freight to Albany, NY escaped what is now the Cabot Yard in South Boston and barreled right into the Southeast Expressway, carving deep grooves in the roadway before they came to a halt and blocking northbound traffic.
Michael William Sullivan reports that the lead locomotive in the runaway express remains on the rails and doing hard work, now down in New Jersey. Read more.
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