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The entry below is being cross posted Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. New is good. New is exciting. New is full of promise. That seemed the mood at Boston College today when Martin Joseph Walsh was sworn in as the 54th mayor of Boston, the first new Boston mayor inaugurated in…
Read More »These early days of January 2014 are days of mayoral inaugurations. Yesterday – after winning a squeaker over the former controversial mayor – it was Dan Rivera in Lawrence and there’s the upcoming swearing-in of Marty Walsh – the first new mayor of Boston in twenty years. Monday will see a new…
Read More »On Presidents’ Day, my wife and I met friends in Boston to visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the Fenway, which is a case study in museum revitalization. The venerable, distinctive museum building dates from the early 1900s. Inside is the extraordinary and eclectic collection of an amazing woman,…
Read More »My wife and I did the be-a-tourist-in-your-own-state thing again yesterday as part of our “stay-cation” approach this summer. We started and ended our day in Andover, but spent most of the bright blue-sky day in Boston, which looked very good in the parts we visited. Boston King Coffee on Main Street…
Read More »More on city life: Look at this feature from boston.com and the Globe with ideas from young entrepreurs about how to make Boston more appealing for entrepreneurship, working, and living.
Read More »Big. Huge. Vast. Jumbo. Massive. A cornucopia of American art. My wife and I met two friends for Sunday brunch at the Museum of Fine Arts. We hadn’t been to the MFA since the opening of the new Art of the Americas Wing and Shapiro Family Courtyard last November. To…
Read More »After watching our quarterback in Detroit on TV yesterday, I have to say I’ve never seen Tom Brady play better than he did on a couple of those second half drives. I’m ready to put him on the Boston sports Mt Rushmore with Carl Yastrzemski, Bill Russell, and Bobby Orr.
Read More »Read this NYT rave review of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts’ new Art of the Americas Wing. Go there. Quickly now.
Read More »Frederick Ayer, brother to Dr. J. C. Ayer of patent medicine fame, is in the news today. He too was in the patent medicine business, also the coal business but even more so in the textile business in the Merrimack Valley in both Lowell and Lawrence. His fashionable home on Pawtucket…
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