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Tag Archives: Back Bay
Day 63: Newbury St
Followed by lunch at the Creperie on Newbury.
Vintage Boston
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Day 45: Coffee & papers
Perhaps the only good reason for abandoning the guaranteed comfort of the pleasantly familiar is the discovery of an even more pleasant unknown – such as Trident Booksellers and Cafe
Day 44: Bay Village and Back Bay
Breakfast at Mike and Patty’s followed by coffee at the Wired Puppy
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The potentiality of the unexpected
[A beautiful urban landscape] “should not provide us with a predetermined use of that space. It should allow for the potentiality of the unexpected” Mara Bitrou (interview with the author, 1 September 2012).
Day 40: Coffee & Papers
Sunday bliss at Pavement Coffeehouse (Newbury St). Catching up with news, fieldwork journal etc and getting ready for the endgame of the chapter’s final few sections.
Struggle for Pleasure
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City Lights
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Placeworlds
“Place can function as the most powerful organizing theme of shared meaning. Street corners and neighborhoods, parks and schools, monuments and memorials— these are not just spots on a map. They are what hold the abstraction of social life together” … Continue reading
Day 19: Bagel and work
…at the Pavement Coffee House, Boylston St.
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“You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.” (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
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Day 14: Back in town
Back in town. Funding bid on media literacy and civic learning submitted after months of preparations. Celebrated with a jazz CDs shopping spree at Newbury Comics. Particularly intrigued by The JFK Quintet: New Jazz Frontiers from Washington (1961 recording, “inspired … Continue reading
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