This cool computer animation from Boston.com shows the results of a recent sub-surface scan of the ground on the property of the Paul Revere house in the North End of Boston. The site has recently acquired some property next door that belonged to Revere originally and there are a number of renovations and additions going on at the site to accommodate the huge number of people who visit each year. I can hardly wait until the work is finished so we can go back with Charlotte and see what’s been done.
Meanwhile, out in Lexington, where Paul Revere was caught by a British patrol on the night of his famous ride, workers doing renovations on the historic Hancock-Clarke House discovered some 18th-Century shoes inside a wall. Local historian J.L. Bell explains that shoes and garments were sometimes hidden inside walls as houses were built in those days to ward off bad spirits. He opines that the shoes were probably put there during later additions to the house, not during original construction. The house is historical because it is where John Hancock and Samuel Adams were staying, hiding out from British authorities, at the time of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
