Long Island
Babies enjoying some fresh sea air
By adamg - 5/1/11 - 4:26 pm
The Boston Public Library has put up more than 300 Harbor Island photos and drawings from the 19th and 20th centuries, including a photo of some nurses and babies on Long Island, back in 1930, when it had a hospital and a Civil War-era photo of Ft. Warren on Georges Island, when it still had live cannons.
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Police: These thieves were wired
By adamg - 4/5/11 - 4:06 pmBoston Police report arresting three men on charges they tried to abscond with copper wire from a public-health facility on Long Island.
Mike Zampitella, 43, of Quincy, Jarrod Hurley, 36, of Abington and Scott Otto, 44, of Boston, were arrested around 8:30 a.m. on Monday after, police say, they were unable to account for all the copper wiring in the back of their pickup truck. Police found the alleged bright bulbs at the island's security gate, where Boston Public Health commission guards had stopped them. Police charged them with receiving stolen property.
Innocent, etc.
Tom Menino picks up a foreign language
By adamg - 8/28/10 - 10:17 amThe Globe covers the dedication of the city's new free-range chicken farm on Long Island, in a story that has the greatest paragraph the paper will run this year:
"Bawk," Menino said. "Bawk, bawk, bawk."
City opens free-range chicken farm
By adamg - 8/26/10 - 6:04 pmCity officials gather on Long Island tomorrow morning to dedicate the addition of free-range chickens to the Serving Ourselves farm, which provides organic food - and job training - for the city's homeless. The Boston Public Health Commission, which oversees Serving Ourselves, says this is Boston's first free-range chicken farm.
The man who smuggled Nazis into Boston Harbor
By adamg - 8/19/10 - 8:27 amWBUR interviewed an Army veteran whose job was to secretly escort Nazi scientists - including Wernher von Braun - to a classified base on Long Island after the end of World War II to see what they could teach us about Nazi technology for the coming cold war. They had to be smuggled in - many aboard ships carrying returning US troops - because the State Department frowned on welcoming Nazis to the US:
They retrieved the Germans in the worst weather and roughest seas, like a five-day storm in autumn of 1945. From the giant troop ship to the deck of the Boston whaler far below, each German had to be lowered by a bosun's chair, a little harness hanging by a rope from the davits and lowered like a lifeboat, swinging in the storm.
The kicker: The soldier was Jewish, born in Austria, his immediate family barely escaped the Nazis but he had relatives murdered in the Holocaust.
Great view of crumbling bridge
Massmoga photographs the little used bridge to Long Island in Boston Harbor.
