Boston University and the Huntington Theatre Company released a joint press release yesterday announcing they were dissolving their 33-year old partnership. As a result, Huntington will have to vacate their facility at 264 Huntington Ave. BU will immediately list that property for sale, along with the two buildings adjacent. Read more.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo.
Eric Griswold shows us Pope John Paul II's motorcade going down Boylston Street on the way to a mass on the Common in 1979. Read more.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.
Tamas K-L spotted this B-25 Mitchell bomber at the air show at Norwood Airport today.
Clay Harper watched a World War II-era military plane fly overhead in Norwood today - no doubt going to or heading away from this weekend's air show at Norwood Airport.
Boston Strolls watched a B-24 Liberator fly over Boston.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene.
The 1920 Labor Day parade in Park Square, as photographed by Leslie Jones.
From the Boston Public Library's Leslie Jones collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo.
The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library (BPL) is hosting an exhibition, "We Are One, Mapping America's road from revolution to independence" to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the colonial resistance to the British Stamp Act.
This week, four new maps from the King George III Topographical Collection and other collections at the British Library were added to the exhibition. These maps are "one-of-a-kind", watercolor paintings in a beautiful 18th-century style. Read more.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
Eric Moskowitz recounts the tale of the tenement that somehow survived the destruction of the West End.
Andrew Oliver, appointed by His Majesty's Government to enforce and collect the stamp tax on all paper products, today announced his resignation from the position on the steps of the Old State House after a rabble of protesters marched his effigy around the town, put it on "trial," found it guilty and ripped it to shreds. Read more.
Grace Holley took in tonight's commemorations of the 250th anniversary of the Stamp Act protests on Essex Street in what is now Chinatown, which included these lanterns.
Johnmcboston also attended: Read more.
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene.
Help keep Universal Hub going. If you like what we're up to and want to help out, please consider a (completely non-deductible) contribution.
