LOL! Put out there whenthe city was in lockdown chasing the bomber.
Crazy Night in Boston… and Cambridge, and Watertown!!
April 19, 2013 by
Suspect #2 Last night I was poking around the FindBostonBombers section on Reddit and was looking again at all the work they had done. Out of the blue, someone said that they heard over the Boston Police scanner that they had a lead where the 2 bombing suspects lived. It was about 9:00 PM. It was a place […]
Classic Stephen Colbert on the Marathon Bombing
April 17, 2013 by
Classic Colbert on the Marathon Bombing last night. "Boston was founded by the Pilgrams. A people so tough they had to buckle their hats on!" The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive
How Much did Paul Revere Charge for His Infamous Midnight Ride? Here’s The Bill He Submitted
April 10, 2013 by
Paul Revere made his historic ride to warn the countryside that the British Regulars were coming on April 18, 1775. Revere had a big family (8 kids) and was an astute businessman who had an engraving business, was a silversmith, a printer, and had several other enterprises. So when he had to take time off […]
My 2 Favorite Adam Vinatieri Plays: The Snow Kick and Catching Herschel Walker
January 6, 2013 by
Adam Vinatieri has had a great career including winning 4 Superbowls. The 2 most amazing plays I saw him make were the kick in the snow against the Raiders in 2002 and chasing down Herschel Walker from behind on a kick off. I never thought he was going to make that kick. The snow and […]
Mt. Auburn Cemetery — “America’s First Garden Cemetery”
June 25, 2012 by
The first time I went to Mt. Auburn Cemetery was a very surprising experience. I had never been to a cemetery that was anything but rows of headstones and a few larger tombs. Mt. Auburn is made for walking around and enjoying not only a wide varieity of memorials, but also a garden, a tower, […]
The Biggest Art Heist Ever: Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum – March 1990
May 6, 2012 by
UPDATE 3/17/2015: The Boston FBI claims they know who pulled the job off, but they are deceased: “We have a high degree of confidence that we know who did this,” said Pete Kowenhoven of the FBI in Boston. Kowenhoven says the two suspects are now dead. “Two individuals that dressed up like the Boston Police […]
The Great Boston Fire of 1872: How a Horse Flu, Drunkards, and Bad Roofs Led to Disaster
April 5, 2012 by
One year after the Great Chicago fire, the Great Boston Fire in 1872 burnt over 700 buildings and 65 acres of downtown Boston to the ground. Here's some background on the blaze and some interesting points on how the city was not prepared. How Did It Start? MassMoments has a great summary of how the […]
The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 – A 2,300,000 Gallon Tidal Wave
March 22, 2012 by
This is one of those stories that seems unreal, but it is true. There was actually a flood of molasses that swept through the streets at 35 MPH. Here's the details from Wikipedia: Near Keany Square,[4] at 529 Commercial Street, a huge molasses tank 50 ft (15 m) tall, 90 ft (27 m) in diameter […]