Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more.
The flock of Bishop Fitzpatrick like the flock of John Winthrop had a monument on this landscape , but it was a sorry sight . Standing high above them , the ruins of the Ursuline Convent on Charlestown's Mount Benedict were a symbol of ...
The book will include historical facts and references of the words’ origins. The book will also include landmarks, both historic and cultural, and why they’re so important to the city.
Originally a narrow, barren strip of land known as the Neck, Boston's South End grew from a lonely sentry post and execution grounds to what is today the largest Victorian neighborhood in the United States.
This book explores a wide range of subjects: peasant society and the causes of European migration, population growth and industrial development, the ideology of progress and Catholic thought, and urban politics and the dynamics of prejudice ...
... 84 Bell , Alexander Graham , 47 Bella Luna restaurant , 88 Black Falcon Cruise Terminal , 77 Black Heritage Trail ... 92 Hutchinson , Anne , 14-15 Jamaica Plain section , 42 , 62 , 69 , 70 , 88 Jamaica Pond , 69 James P. Kelleher ...
This book describes the efforts in Boston and surrounding towns to keep children in school, at least until age 16, before permitting them to start work.