Eileen Murphy captured a cruise ship as it passed Sullivan's at Castle Island yesterday.
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By adamg - 8/11/18 - 12:53 pm
617 Images Boston was up for the sunrise; reports the colors faded quickly.
By adamg - 8/10/18 - 10:33 am
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters were able to rescue a worker who got trapped inside a 10x30 barge in the water off Border Street, near the Umana Academy. The man was rescued shortly after 8:45 a.m. and handed over to EMS for transport to a local hospital.
By adamg - 8/4/18 - 11:40 pm
Herald photographer Mark Garfinkel was in Winthrop shortly before 10 p.m. when he captured quite the lightning strike over Yarmouth.
By adamg - 7/26/18 - 4:06 pm
State officials were talking about the impending closing of the Comm. Ave. bridge, but their warning would apply equally to the storm Matthew Ferry watched roll in over Boston and Boston Harbor, from Thompson Island around 3:50 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 7/24/18 - 10:11 pm
Melissa looked back as she and her uncle headed back to Quincy this evening.
Somewhere in there, more firmly on terra, Jed Hresko was enjoying the sunset on the Greenway:
By adamg - 7/12/18 - 12:00 pm
Or maybe LimeBike is offering underwater tours. In any case, Steve Holt noticed one of the rental bikes sleeping with the fishes in the water off the Harborwalk in East Boston near the East Pier development. Unlike Blue Bikes, these green-and-yellow bikes from north of town are "dockless," which means people are supposed to just leave them wherever they want.
By adamg - 7/4/18 - 4:33 pm
Matt Frank was among the many people who watched Old Ironsides on its stately cruise from the Charlestown Navy Yard to Castle Island and back again today. Read more.
By adamg - 6/30/18 - 10:25 pm
Adam Balsam took in tonight's fireworks over Boston Harbor from Commercial Wharf. Read more.
By adamg - 6/27/18 - 9:59 pm
Stan Kelly asks:
Where is the best place to launch a kayak in Boston Harbor to fish for Stripers?
By adamg - 6/24/18 - 7:15 pm
Back at the start of the 20th century, boring a tunnel took a lot of hard, manual labor - you still needed big, burly men to hack away at the rock. The BPL has three sketches of men at work digging a tunnel for a trolley line between downtown Boston and Maverick Square ... Read more.
By adamg - 6/21/18 - 2:25 pm
NBC Boston reports none of the Newton eighth graders on the Odyssey were hurt and that the damage to the other boats appeared minor.
By adamg - 6/12/18 - 9:15 pm
Patty got to watch both the fireworks Eastern Bank had shot off over Boston Harbor to celebrate its 200th anniversary and the Lucinda Williams concert at the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion (anybody see them from the State Street building?). Read more.
By adamg - 6/7/18 - 9:29 am
Usually we just have one mayor, but this week, we have hundreds, here for the US Conference of Mayors, and they'll be celebrating with a fireworks display from the water off the Kennedy Library, starting around 9:30 p.m. So get yourself to a Dorchester or South Boston beach or high point, or just get your dog's thunder blanket ready.
By adamg - 6/5/18 - 10:57 pm
J. Nathan Matias watched the storm come in over Boston early this evening.
He wasn't alone: Read more.
By adamg - 5/25/18 - 11:58 am
Adam Castiglioni watched the Catalonia leave Boston this morning on its way to the Panama Canal.
By adamg - 5/18/18 - 2:13 pm
Adam Castiglioni watched Old Ironsides on its voyage to Castle Island and back. Read more.
By adamg - 4/6/18 - 6:55 pm
A farewell before Larry is released.
Ever since Roche Bros. in West Roxbury re-opened its seafood department before Valentine's Day, one lobster went unsold: The biggest of them all, a lobster so large the other lobsters crowded around the edges of the tank just to stay away from him, so large that shoppers would bring their kids over to see him.
The poor plight of the lobster began to bother some people over in Roslindale, who used a neighborhood Facebook group to begin to ponder doing something about Larry's fate - yes, of course they named him Larry. Read more.
By adamg - 3/19/18 - 9:01 am
Cybah captured the sun centered in the Rowes Wharf arch as it rose this morning.
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