Greenway

Last Summer, there was an installation of landmark Boston-area neon signs along a section of the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, which included the sign from The European - a restaurant in the North End that is long-gone, but memories of which will always be alive. It was a place to go for pizza with the kids before Bruins or Celtics games at the old Boston Garden, back in a time when those things were affordable to do for an average family.

If you haven’t visited the city since the completion of The Big Dig in the 1990s, when the Expressway was dismantled and removed, you will find it hard to believe (and positively thrilling) that such beauty has replaced such ugliness.

There Should Be A Pulitzer Prize For Newspaper Headlines

And in other news, there is a Psychic Boutique on Revere Beach Parkway, just outside Boston. A Psychic Boutique.

Boston Garden

I had a chance to tour the Boston Garden recently. It’s nice and all, but I found myself really missing the original Garden. Even the rats.

Kids These Days

Boston kids born in the twenty-first century take it for granted that, in the words of Mick Jagger at a Rolling Stones concert at Fenway Park in 2004, “Boston is a championship city.”

Those of us who’ve been around a little longer don’t take these things for granted. So an occasional reminder just before the start of another NFL season seems appropriate.

Al Fresco

In the Courtyard at the Boston Museum Of Fine Arts, on a perfectly beautiful Sunday.

Hannibal Marchand

One More From The MFA

I forgot to mention that our visit to the Boston Museum Of Fine Arts last week would not have been complete without re-connecting with Degas' little dancer. 

Marathon Monday Morning

Early this morning, runners prepare to board busses in Boston for the trip to the Boston Marathon starting line in Hopkinton. 

Boston Streets

I actually drove through this area a few weeks ago, and understood this sign. But I've lived here for a long time. As a newbie Boston driver, you might be able to get your head around it if you had the time, but you don't when you're driving and someone right behind you is leaning on the horn.

Back Bay Boston Before The Pru

Back before there was a Prudential Center on Boylston Street in Back Bay Boston (and the Massachusetts Turnpike running underneath it), there were rail yards. Lots and lots of rail yards. 

Boston Strong

Me And My Old Friend Red Auerbach

So we're showing my Sister-in-Law the sights around Boston today, and who should I run into in Quincy Market, sitting on a bench, but my old friend Red Auerbach, the legendary Hall Of Fame coach of the Boston Celtics. And it's still okay to smoke cigars in public! 

King's Chapel Boston

Easter Sunday, from on high.

Boston Cream Pie

Boston Cream Pie, the official dessert of the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts, was perfected in the Parker House kitchens in Boston in the nineteenth century.

Since we're staying at the Parker House, we had to have Boston Cream Pie. For breakfast. In our room.