Pictures: Boston’s Trinity Church Through the Years 1860-2018

I have taken many pictures of the Trinity Church in Boston’s Copley Square over the last 7 or 8 years. Recently I came across some pictures in Flickr from various sources and thought I’d make a little bit of a time line. You can see the city grow around the church. It is interesting see […]

Boston Then and Now: Copley Square

I've come across quite a few old pictures of Boston in areas where I've taken some pictures. Here's a look at Copley Square in the past compare to how it is now.  THEN: The back of Trinity Church- 1877 – From Boston Public Library NOW: June 2014 The building looks remarkably the same. The biggest changes […]

Pictures: Fenway Park at Night

  I got some pictures the other night of Fenway Park during a game from the Prudential Center Skywalk. Here's a few of them with links to larger versions so you can see more detail.  

Boston Then and Now: The Boston Public Library

This is the first in a series of posts looking at different areas or places in Boston and how they looked in the past to what they look like today. For the past pictures I am using different archives (BPL, Boston City Archive, etc), and for the new versions I am visiting these places and […]

The Boston Musuem of Fine Arts Colorfully Lit Up at Night

The Boston MFA is having some colorful light show this week to highlight their new colorful quilts exhibit. It is pretty cool. Here's a few pictures of the front entrance which is lit up, and a couple of the back with the Indian Hunter and Pronghorn Antelope statutes. Click the picture for larger versions.   […]

Recommended Stuff Spring 2014 Edition: Weather, Video Streaming, Cheap Books, Boston Booze…

Here's a few items that I seem to be telling people about quite a bit lately. You may want to check them out. Weather Underground – A Weather App That Doesn't Suck  It seems like as each of the main weather apps we all use on our phones (The Weather Channel, Accuweahter, Yahoo! Weather) have been […]

The 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing and World Series Sports Illustrated Covers

The April Sports Illustrated cover a few days after the Boston Marathon bombing   The 3 police officers on the Fenway field with Papi

The Boston Bruins Theme Song From the 1970’s: “The Nutty”

Anyone who was a Bruins fan in the 1970's remembers the catchy theme that Channel 38 played before each game. Here's the a bit of the history of it from Wikipedia: When Boston television station WSBK-TV began broadcasting Bruins games in 1967, the producers of the games wanted a suitable piece of music to air […]

The Boston-Cambridge Longfellow Bridge Project – Step by Step Animation

Here's a quick summary of the project from the Mass Department of Transportation site: On February 27, 2013,  Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Board of Directors approved a construction contract for the final rehabilitation of the Longfellow Bridge, which links Boston and Cambridge.   MassDOT held a community meeting to provide a project overview and […]

How Did They Become Known as the Red Sox?

Mental Floss explains how each Major League Baseball team got there name. Here's the Red Sox story: The team that became known as the Red Sox began play "“ wearing dark blue socks, no less "“ as a charter member of the American League in 1901. With no official nickname, the team was referred to […]