Massachusetts

It’s sad that many don’t realize why we are all here – after all of this time.

A short trip out to the beautiful towns of Concord and Lexington will teach you something about our past that you’ll never forget.

Opening Day at Fenway Park, a round of golf – it’s clear that spring is here!

There’s a great story to be told along Boston’s Freedom Trail – the story of how our revolution came to be. A column in today’s Boston Globe Ideas section calls for an update to the freedom trail:

In one way, the Freedom Trail has been a victim of its greatest successes: the loving restoration of Boston’s three most important public buildings of the Revolutionary era, the Old State House, Faneuil Hall, and the Old South Meeting House. But we are so used to thinking of government as representative and as taking place indoors that we have lost sight of what the revolutionary generation called “the people out of doors.” After all, some of the most famous events of the Revolution in Boston took place not within these buildings but in the streets or squares — and involved thousands of ordinary people who were not normally part of the political system.

The processions protesting the Stamp Act in 1765 began with effigies hanging from the Liberty Tree, the great elm at the corner of Essex and Washington streets, and the space beneath the tree (known as “Liberty Hall”) remained a center of political activity for the next decade. The Boston Massacre of 1770 occurred in the square below the balcony of the State House. The Tea Party of 1773 took place at Griffin’s Wharf, where several thousand stood in hushed silence as 100 or so men staged their famous act of civil disobedience.

The story is there to be told.. but only if you already know it.

Read On…

Yesterday was the last day for the Central Artery in downtown Boston, my bane of existance for more than a year driving to and from work. Driving home tonight from up north will be different for the first time in my lifetime.

For all of the $15b project, this will save me around 15 minutes of time.

$1b a minute, a good deal, right?

Played paintball for the first time since my law enforcement days on Thursday night at Boston Paintball – great indoor facility.

Was an absolute blast – one of the best things I’ve ever done.

The front edge of a lumbering winter storm spread across Massachusetts on Friday night, as communities braced for a foot of snow or more through Sunday and the possibility of coastal flooding.

“We’re all set,” said Richard Christiano of Lexington, Mass. “I just bought 100 pounds of ice melt and we took out our snow shovels last night. We’ll be getting a good night’s sleep and getting ready for some shoveling.” [Boston Globe]

If everything goes according to plan, daybreak atop the elevated Central Artery on Dec. 20 should bring the sound of silence — the end of a six-decade era of driving along the elevated highway through the heart of Boston. [Boston Globe]