Jonesing for some basketball? Hungry for hoops? Well, NBA action…it’s fantastic! Well, maybe not. With the NBA in a lockout and the TD Garden’s parquet floor locked up in storage, basketball fans (those who love the game like Rodney!) are going to have to be a little creative to get their fix, at least until [...]
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Christopher Klein
I’m definitely a map geek. Mercator is a rock star to me, and I can’t wait to dig into Maphead, the new book from Ken Jennings (the Jeopardy! guy). I also love vintage travel posters. I’ve got a few of them hanging up around the house, including this great one from the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. So [...]
Granted I’m pretty sure I couldn’t construct a dollhouse, let alone a single-family home, without at least one trip to the ER, but I do see some similarities between writing about history and building a home. To me, I find that major historical events–and the newspaper accounts and government records associated with them–provide the basic [...]
Last week I wrote about the first Revolutionary War skirmish at Boston Light between the patriots and the British on July 20, 1775. The British maintained control of Little Brewster Island and its strategically important beacon after the fight and immediately set about repairing the damage to the lighthouse. But a far deadlier battle awaited [...]
Call it a Punxsutawney Phil moment. A sure sign that a barren season is finally behind us and better days have arrived. As I was driving around my neighborhood yesterday, I saw a 70-year-old woman shuffling away from her mailbox. She was wearing a gray T-shirt with some lettering on the front and back. As I [...]
Swimming in Boston Harbor in wintertime. Hiking tree-lined trails under a translucent dome. Renting electric cars for a spin around Thompson Island. It definitely seems like something out of a sci-fi book, perhaps a vision of life in Boston in 2020. But rather than some futuristic view of the Boston Harbor Islands, this was a [...]
Remember that old Sesame Street segment with the song “One of these things is not like the other”? (What’s up with Grover’s voice in that clip, by the way? Sounds like he had a Freaky Friday moment with Cookie Monster.) You get four choices and have to tell which one is dissimilar from the others. [...]
“I’ll trade ‘ya three Justin Dimick cards for your Robert E. Lee.” You just might be hearing kids proposing this barter following the National Park Service’s release of its collection of Civil War Trading Cards. The 189 cards in the series feature prominent soldiers and politicians from the Civil War along with major historical events [...]
