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Fortress of solitude
By adamg on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 9:33am
Overmatter reports:
I went for a six-mile walk to get rid of some anger and eventually I ducked into the monastery on Memorial Drive. The street was bustling with drunk Head of the Charles regatta groupies, but as soon as I shut the heavy door behind me, the chapel was stone cold silent. (I guess that's because the chapel is made of cold stone.) I sat in the back, rested my head against the stone, and poof, I wasn't angry anymore. ...
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Where is the monastery?
I did not know there was one in Cambridge. Where is it?
The Society of St. John the
The Society of St. John the Evangelist.
980 Memorial.
Monastery
It's startling to know that there's a monastery a short distance from Harvard Square! Even more startling to me was when I found clear reference to the same monastery in a British novel published in 1956 - Rose Macaulay's THE TOWERS OF TREBIZOND.