Hoo boy—just when you’d think the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy could get some peace and quiet, what with Occupy Boston decamped and a mostly empty calendar, the Boston Herald suddenly discovers that Nancy Brennan doesn’t know how to use e-mail. While it’s certainly amusing to read Brennan’s panicked typing, the grousing about her salary as [...]
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As the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s public relations staff have been trying to tell you for weeks now, the new Gardner Museum wing will be opening on Thursday, January 19. What they don’t tell you is that Mrs. Gardner would never have approved of the the Museum’s plan for the new Lynch Foundation garden—or the [...]
If you have taken a cab ride around Boston recently, you may have become aware from the constantly streaming in-taxi advertising that this city is the home of many “firsts”. Boston, AKA the Hub of the Universe, was home to the first public park (Boston Common), the first public high school (Boston Latin), first public [...]
A few months ago, while flipping through a few of our titles, we realized how lucky we were to have access to such beautiful photography of Boston and New England here at Union Park Press. After all, when you publish books about New England’s historic houses and landscapes, Greater Boston’s parks and gardens, and underwater [...]
Image courtesy of bu.edu With Christmas and Hanukkah over, we’re through the heart of the holiday season… but there’s still one more event to plan for, and it’s right around the corner. If you haven’t nailed down plans for New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day, don’t worry. Boston’s Best Cruises and the Friends of [...]
Throughout the month of December, we have been telling you about our favorite places to shop for everyone on our lists. We told you about our go-to stores in the downtown neighborhoods of the South End, Back Bay and Beacon Hill; we traveled west to the indie-friendly towns of Brookline, Newton and Wellesley; and we [...]
Let’s face it—the holidays are great, but man can they wipe a mom and dad out. Strung out from Christmas lights, stressing about entertaining your house guests, and done in from wrestling your little sugar plums into bed each night? Consider putting a little post-holiday family fun on the calendar. For many parents, the ocean [...]
All right, I’ll admit it: most of you probably aren’t spending much time in parks nowadays. It’s cold and dark, and when it gets warm the ground is muddy. Eew! Far better to stay clean, warm, and motionless in front of a screen somewhere. That’ll please the ghosts of our Puritan forebears. I can hear [...]
While December can be one of the cheeriest times of year, it is definitely one of the most hectic and stressful too. With to-do lists brimming with tasks like decorating, shopping, baking, wrapping, on top of already busy routines, it’s amazing that we have time to celebrate at all! But it’s the hard-working people at [...]
