-Sun Staff Report The Beacon Towers fell prey to the second blaze in a little more than a year when a one-alarm fire struck the 10-story condominium building Friday. According to Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald, an on-duty firefighter reported the fire at 483 Beacon St. at about 3:21 p.m. after a small...
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To Market, to Market
“To market, to market, to buy a plum bun: Home again, home again, market is done!”(The original verse of the traditional English nursery rhyme – circa 1611.)
From Nothing to Something – How BHV Made It Happen
By Karen Cord Taylor Entrepreneurship is trendy these days. It requires innovation. Everyone wants to be the person who takes an idea, gets it going, and comes out a winner. Downtown Boston has such a winner. Beacon Hill Village, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, serves 375 members 50 years or older who live...
William Lloyd Garrison, Reformer
By Penny Cherubino William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) was a man of strong words, and strong words are used to describe him– reformer, activist, abolitionist. His statue, on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall near Dartmouth Street, is inscribed with one of his powerful statements. “I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will...
Strolling In The Park
“A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo.”- Paul Scott Mowrer (1887-1971 Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper correspondent)
America’s Oldest Family-owned Art Gallery
-By Penny Cherubino A discrete brownstone at 238 Newbury Street is home to Vose Galleries. Most shoppers passing by the building have no idea that behind the blue doors is one of the largest collections of American realist paintings in New England. Family and Art For 170 years descendants of Joseph Vose have operated the...
Women at Work
These hard-working women were part of a Garden Club of the Back Bay clean up crew that recently rejuvenated blocks of street tree enclosures along Beacon Street. (Left to right: Glenda Mattes, Beverly Barlow, Rita Christensen and Nancy Totton.)
Adopt a Street Tree
-By Penny Cherubino Throughout the city there are what Jackie Blombach, Co-President of the Garden Club of the Back Bay, calls “abandoned tree pits.” These are filled with trash and weeds. Their soil is so compacted that water can’t reach tree roots, and the lack of plants or mulch lets the sun bake away...
The Back Bay Association Holds its 88th Annual Meeting at Four Seasons
The Back Bay Association (BBA) held its 88th Annual Meeting at the Four Seasons Boston Hotel on Monday May 9. Members of the Association gathered to revisit the successes of both the organization and neighborhood. BBA President Meg Mainzer-Cohen welcomed members to the event and introduced Chairman (General Manager of the Four Seasons Hotel...
Picture Perfect
“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”- Eudora Welty (American Author 1909 – 2001)