Hingham

World's End

By adamg - 5/21/11 - 10:46 am

World's End

Liz West took this photo of World's End in Hingham last fall.

World's End was once an island, but is now a gorgeous property maintained by the Trustees of Reservations. Landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted, it consists of approximately 250 acres of paths, meadows, woodlands, and seascapes.

Visit World's End:

The retreating glacier helped create the geology of Boston Harbor, including the islands and the four spoon-shaped hills (called drumlins) that comprise World's End. This landscape also features saltwater marshes, meadows, woodlands, and granite ledges covered with red cedars and blueberry thickets.

Photo posted under this Creative Commons license.

The sweetest blog of the day

By adamg - 3/26/11 - 12:29 pm

Gabbie's Goodies is the chronicle of a start-up bon-bon shop in Hingham.

Home for the holidays

By adamg - 12/24/10 - 7:05 pm

Home for the holidays

Scott Eisen was at the Hingham Armory today when the 1058th Transportation Company of the National Guard returned home from Iraq.

Copyright Scott Eisen.

YouTube's latest star

By Stewart - 11/12/10 - 1:13 am

Gawker just posted a link to a truly appalling YouTube video supposedly secretly filmed by a postal carrier in Hingham as he's being verbally abused (and at one point, physically assaulted) by a middle-aged woman who honestly seems flat-out unhinged. Which of the local commentators will be the first to knock out a couple easy columns over it?

http://gawker.com/5688054/postal-worker-secretly-films-customers-racist-rant

Demolition derby, Hingham style

By adamg - 5/26/10 - 7:42 am

Crash

Jeff Cutler happened upon this accident at Crow Point Lane and Rte. 3A in Hingham around 7 a.m. today. He reports the van driver had to be cut out of the vehicle, but that the other drivers seemed OK.

Photo copyright Jeff Cutler.

Milton and Hingham getting Patched

By adamg - 3/17/10 - 9:12 am

Yes, yes, at some point I should stop linking to Patch's ads for editors and reporters to "radically reinvent community journalism," but for now I'm still fascinated by its move into GateHouse/Your Town territory, so here are the ads for AOL's efforts to cover Milton and Hingham.

Woe

By adamg - 10/30/09 - 9:54 pm
Boo hoo

David Parsons spent some time recently at Hingham Cemetery.

Copyright David Parsons. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

MBTA hears commuters who hate stuffing dollar bills into slots

By adamg - 12/11/08 - 10:31 am

The MBTA has begun experimenting with a system that lets commuter-rail and ferry riders pay for parking by cell phone instead by rolling up all those dollar bills to stuff into those tiny slots at parking lots.

The new system, at parking lots along the Kingston line and at the Quincy and Hingham commuter-boat terminals, lets riders set up accounts and then dial a toll-free number to have the day's parking fee charged to their credit cards:

Upon creating a free pay by phone account, customers call the toll free number from their mobile phone, key in the location and parking numbers, and the parking fee is charged to their credit/debit card.