EaBo Clipper recounts how Revolutionary fervor in Nova Scotia was squashed. Our own Evacuation Day played a role in the story.

Only in Boston: On the Orange Line between State and Downtown Crossing this afternoon.

Chris Klein returns us to the halcyon days of yore when the Waltham Bicycle Park was one of the premier bicycle-racing venues in the world.

Local Spice is not afraid to admit being one of those people who gets Bunker Hill Day off; takes the opportunity to visit Bunker Hill:

... I've admittedly been to the monument before, but this was my 1st time scaling the monument's 294 steps, and then competing with the tourists at the top to get a look out the windows and take my snappy pictures. ...

Back in the day, Massachusetts churches were allowed to veto nearby bars. In this video, a BU law professor explains how Grendel's Den challenged the law - and won in a Supreme Court decision. The church was eventually torn down and turned into a Peet's.

Chris Kulikoski, running against incumbent Sal LaMattina in district 1 (North End, East Boston and Charlestown) says he would work to eliminate Bunker Hill Day and Evacuation Day as paid city holidays:

Boston has a proud history and Bunker Hill Day and Evacuation Day are certainly part of that history. However, when the city, the state and the country are in a financial crisis, now is the time to look at saving taxpayer money and to phase out these holidays for city workers. When we are potentially laying off school teachers, police and firefighters, it is irresponsible to defend these benefits that ordinary taxpayers don’t enjoy. We all love holidays, but I would suggest that if city councilors and city workers want those days off, they take a personal day - like the rest of us have to.

The city council this week passed a resolution - sponsored by LaMattina - to oppose efforts in the state legislature to eliminate the two holidays, on which city and state workers, and public-school students, in Suffolk County get paid days off.

Bunker Hill Day is this Wednesday.

Shopping Days In Retro Boston (curiously enough, a website by a fellow in the UK) has some great stuff about the early days of Filene's

Mark Bulger is leading a free tour for the Jamaica Plain Historical Society of Green Street:

... Learn about blacksmiths and harnessmakers, schools and factories. Green st. was the home to a trailblazing professional woman and a world-class manufacturer. ...

Joshua Dawson thanks his grandfather, who ran one of the boats that ferried soldiers to Omaha Beach:

... In the summer of 2001, I was fortunate enough to visit Normandy – it is one of the most humbling experiences a human can go through. One morning, I walked down to the beach at Omaha Beach, trying to picture what that morning could have looked like. I also tried to imagine how someone like me, at age 18, could have realized the magnitude of the mission they had embarked on. ...

Dorchester was actually founded first and it was way bigger than Boston - it once stretched all the way to Rhode Island. Adam Pieniazek fills in the gaps of our local historical knowledge and ponders whether Dorchester would ever try to secede.