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In 1887, Edward Bellamy published. He was looking at his own era from the vantage point of the future (the year 2000). We’re looking at the past, also with the benefit of hindsight. This site pages back through the streets, scraps and happenings of a city known for its history. The goal: to recover the layers. Just from the Colonial period to the Revolutionary War, but the decades from those years to the present. Suggestions and questions welcome at bostonlookingbackward (at) gmail (dot) com.
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How Boston got its first airline route | Looking Backward
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June 18, 2012. How Boston got its first airline route. The flight from Boston to New York would take one hour forty-five minutes. It was the mid 1920s: a happening time between world wars. The United State Postal Service had successfully proved its experiment. In putting excess planes to work ferrying mail from coast to coast, so that the government felt confident putting its airmail routes out to bid to private aviation companies. Photo: Boston Public Library/via Flickr. You can peek inside the airl...
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Thirsty horses and trolley cars | Looking Backward
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July 12, 2011. Thirsty horses and trolley cars. Photo of a downtown fountain for thirsty horses via Boston Public Library’s Flickr stream. Would take one of these for people right about now. The ASPCA, founded in 1866 spread to many American cities, and lobbied on behalf of draft horses.This scene was already on the wane in the 1920s. Horses were superseded by electric trolley lines through expanding cities (What’s that off in the background? Between 1742, when horses were taxed for the first time, and 1...
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Choosing Santa Fe: July 2011
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Observations about Santa Fe life, art, culture, and history with occasional other musings. Sunday, July 17, 2011. Last month I left Santa Fe and moved to Providence, Rhode Island. I'd spent almost five years in Santa Fe and loved a lot about the city- there were other things I liked less. I loved the mountains and the sunsets and my friends in Santa Fe; the state government, the lack of customer service attitude, the problems with the educational system, the drought and thunderstorms- not so much.
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Choosing Santa Fe: Puye Cliffs
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Observations about Santa Fe life, art, culture, and history with occasional other musings. Monday, September 27, 2010. Earlier this summer I toured the. Which are located near Los Alamos, about 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe. Puye Cliffs was the ancestral home of the people of. From the 900s until about 1580, when they moved to the Rio Grande Valley. This site, now a National Historic Landmark, was closed from 2000-2009 due to flooding and erosion resulting from the. Paths and stairways connected the two...
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Choosing Providence: Alexander F. Adie House, Part 2
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014. Alexander F. Adie House, Part 2. In my last post, I discussed the demolition of the Alexander F. Adie House on Federal Hill, as well as the life of its builder. Today's post is about Angelina and Angelo Lucchetti; their story touches the house much later. Fontana Liri, Italy. Angelo was born in 1886 in Fontana Liri, Italy, a small town in the mountains between Rome and Naples, best known as the birthplace of Marcello Mastroianni. In November, 1919, Angelo married Giovannina ...
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Choosing Providence: June 2013
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Monday, June 10, 2013. The beautiful Brickyard Pond, in Barrington, RI, is home to rainbow, lake, and brown trout, pickerel and largemouth bass, canvasback and ring-necked ducks, mute swans, and nesting osprey. Its 102 acres are traversed by canoes and kayaks, and its shores traced by runners, walkers, and bikers on the East Bay Bike Path. In Groton, Connecticut, a project which took him four years.). To harvest the clay, workers used picks and shovels to dig clay by hand from holes 12-14 feet in diamete...
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Choosing Providence: October 2014
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014. On Broadway: Barnaby Castle Update. This past weekend, the WBNA (West Broadway Neighborhood Association) hosted a house tour, and we had the opportunity to see the interiors of a number of homes of interest, including Barnaby Castle. Several people who read my previous post. On the Barnaby Castle, and its interesting history, inquired about the house, and about what's happening with the renovation, so here's an update. Below are some first floor photos. Links to this post.
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Choosing Santa Fe: July 2010
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Observations about Santa Fe life, art, culture, and history with occasional other musings. Wednesday, July 14, 2010. Gunfighting in New Mexico. The number of gunfights in the US forms a neat bell curve- starting with 13 in the period from 1854-1859, peaking at 106 in 1875-1879, and dropping off to 9 by 1910-1914. Illustration Credits and References. Statistsics on gunfighting appeared in Almanacs of American Life: Victorian America 1876-1913. By Bill O'Neal (1979) for this data. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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