Photos

Peace

adamg — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:42:09 +0000

Martin Richard's words.

Liz Carney led a Dot Art Paint for Peace Day at Savin Hill Beach today that ended with the hanging of this banner across I-93. Photo by Peter McNamara.

Some fresh paint on Tremont Street

adamg — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:41:46 +0000

Alli Knothe photographed the side of an auto-parts store on Tremont Street near the Roxbury Crossing T stop this afternoon.

The peace-wave generator

adamg — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:22:03 +0000

Masstreehugger spotted this guy and his contraption in the Public Garden today.

Backing Ortiz

adamg — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:32:49 +0000

Cherie L. King photographed a sign on Newbury Street this morning.

Free fuzzies at Boylston and Berkeley

adamg — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:31:56 +0000

Neal Gaffey photographed therapy dogs walking through the crowd in the Back Bay this morning. That's Liberty and Independence in the foreground.

Tree falls on Boylston Street

adamg — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 05:24:20 +0000

Brig Dauber captured the Public Garden tree that plunged to its demise across Boylston Street Friday night.

Meter maid don't care

adamg — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:43:22 +0000

Yes, that is a Boston parking ticket on the windshield of one of the trucks that has turned the Charles Street side of the Common into a National Guard encampment. Richard Lynds couldn't believe it, either.

UPDATE: See comment below: The city didn't ticket the truck.

Reflecting

adamg — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:26:29 +0000

Bennett Wilson reports City Hall set up screens so that workers and visitors there could watch the interfaith service.

On Huntington Avenue last night

adamg — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:07:22 +0000

Nathaniel Jewett captured the building across from Symphony Hall last night.

Vigil for a little boy

adamg — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:24:15 +0000

Jed Hresko attended the vigil tonight in Garvey Park, across from St. Ann Church in Dorchester.

The Dorchester Reporter reports 1,000 people attended.

Landsmen in Lexuses

adamg — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:42:02 +0000

Last November, I spotted a Lexus with an ironic Yiddish license plate. Turns out the owner, Ruth Shuman, saw the post. And she reports:

This Saturday I was in Auburndale and pulled into a parking spot. When I looked over to the car next to me, look at what I saw! Interesting how we both drive the same model car! I thought this was pretty hysterical.

Six years later, Virginia Tech still deserves a vote. #DemandAction from Congress

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:36:06 +0000

Destroyed

adamg — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:10:55 +0000

Brian D'Amico was near the finish line and took photos, including this one of the remains of somebody's sneaker.

Grief, shock in Kenmore Square

adamg — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:30:19 +0000

Photographynatalia was in Kenmore Square this afternoon to photograph runners when the bombs went off. A shocked runner reacted to the news of the explosions.

Copyright Photographynatalia. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Revolutionary Roslindale

adamg — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:41:26 +0000

Capt. John Baker, died in 1781, aged 75.

Roslindale is not the sort of place you associate with the Revolution, but it turns out a cemetery there, by the side of a road Washington's forces used to ferry supplies from Dedham to Boston, was the final resting place for a number of Revolutionary War soldiers.

You can see the remains of the Walter Street Burying Ground on Peters Hill in the Arnold Arboretum. Go into the Peters Hill entrance of the Arboretum where South Street meets Walter Street and start up the path on the hill. As you walk, keep in mind that back in the day, Roslindale as a place didn't exist - the area was a hinterland of the town of Roxbury. And Walter Street, then known as the Dedham Road was a key supply route for the Americans.