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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Anyone who knows Union Park Press knows that we have a bit of a thing for the Boston Harbor Islands. Discovering the Boston Harbor Islands, by Christopher Klein, was the first book published by the Press back in 2008, with an updated 2nd edition released this past spring. With the Mass Memories Roadshow focusing gathering [...]
One of the best things about living in New England might be the quirky, fascinating historic places that dot our landscapes and enhance our town squares. It could be the white church with the tall steeple that sits on the town green. Maybe it’s an old boat shop that has survived countless nor’easters over the [...]
