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A Look Into Leonard Nimoy's Time in Boston's West End | BDCWire

A Look Into Leonard Nimoy's Time in Boston's West End | BDCWire "Off of Cambridge Street downtown is the Charles River Plaza Shopping Center, a small complex in a compact area where medical workers from Mass General and residents of...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 9, 2020 10:05 AM

The History of Land Fill in Boston

The History of Land Fill in Boston A series of five maps illustrating the growth of Boston through the use of landfill, showing the original Shawmut Peninsula in 1630, the filling of the Mill Pond (Causeway Street really was a...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 24, 2019 1:00 AM

Lowell Mason collection of singing instruction

The key note : a collection of church and singing school music, consisting of new tunes and anthems for public and private worship, with a variety of light glee choruses for the singing school and for social use : Bradbury,...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 2, 2016 1:06 AM

Brighton Allston Historical Society: The Urban Renewal of Barry's Corner

Brighton Allston Historical Society: The Urban Renewal of Barry's Corner In the early 1960s, a 9.3 acre, 71-family Irish and Italian neighborhood on the northeast corner of N. Harvard St. and Western Ave. was declared blighted by the City of...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 16, 2014 8:47 PM

YouTube - Whadayatalk? Whadayatalk? ("Rock Island" on the Green Line)

YouTube - Whadayatalk? Whadayatalk? ("Rock Island" on the Green Line) A group of Boston University students reenact the opening number from The Music Man on a Comm. Ave. streetcar. (Via Mark Evanier.)...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 11, 2009 11:18 PM

imagiNATIVEamerica » The Boston Public Library Courtyard

imagiNATIVEamerica » The Boston Public Library Courtyard Blair Humphreys captures sunlight, shadow, and classic architecture in the courtyard of the Boston Public Library on a sunny late summer day. (This is his homework (the lucky dog) for the MIT course...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 18, 2008 6:54 AM