By Julia Furmanek As a kid, my favorite games to play were ones that involved “living” through historical events. Sometimes I was struggling through the Irish Potato Famine, with rocks from the street as makeshift rotten potatoes, or I was battling in the Revolutionary War in my backyard. My most frequent moments of choice, however, […]
Read More →Boston is an interesting city full of historical landmarks, but sometimes the big tourist attractions can overshadow other cool sites.
Read More →Boston is an amazing place to go to college. Thousands of students from every corner of the world come here to experience all the city has to offer every year. BU students especially love to frequent Boston’s famous North End, Newbury Street and Boston Common, but there are many parts of the city and area […]
Read More →No. The answer to that absurd question is no. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway blockbuster is still very much alive. It’s been more than two years since I first heard the soundtrack to the musical, and to this day, you can still catch me strolling down Commonwealth Avenue blasting “Satisfied.” But what about the soundtrack makes […]
Read More →By Caitlin Fisher I couldn’t quite figure out the paranormal aesthetic of Copp’s Hill Burying Ground: there was an eerie, fantastical aura about the place, shrouded as it is by mist and curling vines, that made it feel like the pumpkin patch from “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.” There, too, were the rolling hills […]
Read More →By Caitlin Fisher “JFK’s not here,” Sue told me. “A French king, sure. A colonial woman. A Revolution-era paymaster named Ebenezer. The spirit of a dead chef. But not JFK.” Sue is the manager at the Union Oyster House, the country’s oldest continuously-operating restaurant and one of Boston’s biggest tourist traps. My roommate and I […]
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