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Author: Robert J. Allison Publisher: Short Histories ISBN: 9781889833477 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Until 2004 and the publication of ""A Short History of Boston,"" there was no good short history of the city of Boston, not in print anyway. With economy and style, Dr. Robert Allison brings Boston history alive, from the Puritan theocracy of the seventeenth century to the Big Dig of the twenty-first. His book includes a wealth of illustrations, a lengthy chronology of the key events in four centuries of Boston history, and twenty short profiles of exceptional Bostonians, from founder John Winthrop to heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan, from ""heretic"" Anne Hutchinson to Russian-American author Mary Antin. Says the Provincetown Arts, ""A first-rate short history of the city, lavishly illustrated, lovingly written, and instantly the best book of its kind."" "
Author: Robert J. Allison Publisher: Short Histories ISBN: 9781889833477 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Until 2004 and the publication of ""A Short History of Boston,"" there was no good short history of the city of Boston, not in print anyway. With economy and style, Dr. Robert Allison brings Boston history alive, from the Puritan theocracy of the seventeenth century to the Big Dig of the twenty-first. His book includes a wealth of illustrations, a lengthy chronology of the key events in four centuries of Boston history, and twenty short profiles of exceptional Bostonians, from founder John Winthrop to heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan, from ""heretic"" Anne Hutchinson to Russian-American author Mary Antin. Says the Provincetown Arts, ""A first-rate short history of the city, lavishly illustrated, lovingly written, and instantly the best book of its kind."" "
Author: Michael Paquet Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1300042478 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 63
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This is a screenplay is written in honor of the legendary rock and roll band, Boston. No responsibility or ownership for the names and/or concepts that are mentioned in this book, and neither belong to me, and no harm is intended towards the actual owner(s). The premise of this screenplay is as follows: it is set 450 years in the future, where Boston is still rocking away. This premise is made possible by the current members of Boston artificially prolonging their lives via modern technology. While this piece can be a trifle comedic at times, the heart of the story is meant to be serious, and to tell the amazing story of Boston.
Author: Thomas H. O'Connor Publisher: UPNE ISBN: 9781555534745 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 342
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Filled with local events as well as intriguing characters, this engaging account vividly captures the spirit and soul of Boston, both yesterday and today."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Sam Baltrusis Publisher: History Press ISBN: 9781609497422 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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It should come as no surprise that one of the nation's oldest cities brims with spirits of those who lived and died in its hundreds of years of tumultuous history. Boston, Massachusetts, boasts countless stories of the supernatural. Many students at Boston College have encountered an unearthly hound that haunts O'Connell House to this day. Be on the watch for an actor who sits in on rehearsals at Huntington Theatre and restless spirits rumored to haunt Boston Common at night. From the Victorian brownstones of Back Bay to the shores of the Boston Harbor Islands, author Sam Baltrusis makes it clear that there is hardly a corner of the Hub where the paranormal cannot be experienced as he breathes new life into the tales of the long departed.
Author: Howard Bryant Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135297762 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
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Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team, and told from the perspective of Boston native and noted sports writer Howard Bryant. This well written and poignant work contains striking interviews in which blacks who played for the Red Sox speak for the first time about their experiences in Boston, as well as groundbreaking chapter that details Jackie Robinson's ill-fated tryout with the Boston Red Sox and the humiliation that followed.
Author: Matthew D. Plunkett Publisher: Motorbooks International ISBN: 0760359997 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 211
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Boston Whaler, celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2018, is an American boating icon that has made boating reliable, fun, and above all, safe for the fisherman and pleasure-boater alike.
Author: Daniel Dain Publisher: Peter E. Randall Publisher ISBN: 1942155638 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 942
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“Dain’s A History of Boston helps the reader understand how land-use and environment contribute to shaping a community. Dain’s Boston is the go-to book.” - R.J. Lyman Boston is today one of the world’s greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life science companies, and sports teams. It was the home of the Great Puritan Migration, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the first civil rights movement, the abolition movement, and the women’s rights movement. But the city that gave us the first use of ether as anesthesia, the telephone, technicolor film, and the mutual fund—the city where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott founded their world-changing partnership—was also the hub of the anti-immigration movement, the divisive busing era, and decades of self-inflicted decay. Boston has the most important history of any American city. Yet its history has never been given a comprehensive treatment until now. Join Dan Dain as he acts as your tour guide from the arrival of First Peoples up to the election of Boston’s first woman and person of color as mayor. Dain’s masterful work explores the policies and practices that took Boston from its highest heights to its lowest lows and back again, and examines the central role that density, diversity, and good urban design play in the success of cities like Boston.
Author: Jennifer Latchford Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439634637 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 132
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Through a combination of player interviews and historical narrative, Red Sox Legends is a tribute to the great players of the past. This book, a partnership between the Boston Public Library and the Boston Red Sox, is part of an effort to bring Red Sox history to life. Large format prints of most of the images included here are hung inside Fenway Park. The images shown are a sampling of the over 750,000 photographs in the librarys collection and the tens of thousands of images in the Red Sox archives.
Author: Patrick L. Kennedy Publisher: UMass + ORM ISBN: 1613765436 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 350
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Two weeks after the United States officially entered World War I, Irish American "Bricklayer Bill" Kennedy won the Boston Marathon wearing his stars-and-stripes bandana, rallying the crowd of patriotic spectators. Kennedy became an American hero and, with outrageous stories of his riding the rails and sleeping on pool tables, a racing legend whose name has since appeared in almost every book written on the Boston Marathon. When journalist Patrick Kennedy and historian Lawrence Kennedy unearthed their uncle's unpublished memoir, they discovered a colorful character who lived a tumultuous life, beyond his multiple marathons. The bricklayer survived typhoid fever, a five-story fall, auto and train accidents, World War action, Depression-era bankruptcy, decades of back-breaking work, and his own tendency to tipple. In many ways, Bill typified the colorful, newly emerging culture and working-class ethic of competitive long-distance running before it became a professionalized sport. Bricklayer Bill takes us back to another time, when bricklayers, plumbers, and printers could take the stage as star athletes.
Author: Robert J. Allison
Author: Robert J. Allison
Author: Michael Paquet
Author: Thomas H. O'Connor
Author: Sam Baltrusis
Author: Howard Bryant
Author: Matthew D. Plunkett
Author: Michael Norman
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Author: Jennifer Latchford
Author: Patrick L. Kennedy