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Sixteen master sculptors arrived at Revere Beach this week with nothing but sand and water, and by Sunday each one delivered a finished work the size of a small car. The Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival runs July 17–19, and the admission is free. Has been every year since 2004. Each sculptor gets 12 […]
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Sixty ships from over twenty countries sailed into Boston Harbor yesterday morning, and the city stopped to watch. The USS Constitution led the Parade of Sail at 10:15 a.m. as F/A-18 Navy jets flew overhead. Four minutes later the fleet followed—square-riggers, schooners, and training vessels from Romania, Portugal, Germany, and Italy—each one rounding into the […]
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Two hundred and fifty years ago, fifty-six men signed a document in Philadelphia and changed everything. Boston heard the news before the ink dried—the Declaration was read aloud from the State House balcony on July 18, 1776, and the crowd in the street below responded the way Boston crowds always do. Loudly. The city has […]
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New York wears the wrong color when it walks into Fenway. Boston fans have hated that road jersey for over a century, and June 27 brings it back for one more round. The streets around Kenmore Square start filling hours before first pitch. Nobody plans a quick trip to this game. The ballpark itself fights […]
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June 21 lands as the longest day of the year, and Harvard turns it into an open house. The museums waive the ticket. Doors open at the regular hour. Nothing about the schedule changes except the price, which drops to zero. The Harvard Museum of Natural History shares one building with the Peabody Museum of […]
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The World Cup is here. Seven matches. Four weeks. Fans fly in from around the world, all headed to the same stadium on Route 1 in Foxborough. Most book the flight and the ticket months out. The ride from Logan is an afterthought until match day, when Route 1 turns into a parking lot and […]
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FIFA handed Boston seven World Cup games. Gillette Stadium in Foxborough gets the first one June 13 and the last one July 9 — a quarterfinal. Five group stage matches run in between. Up to 14 national teams step onto that field before the tournament moves on. The stadium sits 22 miles southwest of downtown […]
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Washington picked Dorchester Heights for a reason. The hill clears the harbor, holds the high ground over the anchorage, and gives anyone standing at the top a clean line of sight to every ship below. On the night of March 4, 1776, his men moved fast — oxen hauled the Ticonderoga guns up the slope […]
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Memorial Day changes the way Boston moves. The city does not turn the weekend into one single event and call it done. It spreads the day across several kinds of plans. One group heads out for a parade. Another group starts with one public part of the day, then adds lunch and one stop downtown. […]
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The Rose Kennedy Greenway gives downtown Boston a route that works without much effort. A person can come in for one short stop and still get a real city outing from it. The park cuts through the center, but it does not trap people in one fixed point. That matters. Some places ask for a […]
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