The Boston Diaries
- Faneuil Hall MIT cinema Wenham Boston Public Library Espalanade trains MBTA Government Center UMass Roxbury McKenna's Financial District jazz Mayoral election South Station snow EGL libraries stations Art in Transit Boylston St Newburyport Mass Ave Friendly Toast museums home Starbucks Bay Village Downtown Back Bay Harvard Harvard Film Archive fieldwork Kendall Square T public art noir Pavement Coffee House Hoop Dreams Newbury St collective memory fall JFK community art New England Emerson Savin Hill Mihailidis Brookline Copley Square food Harvard Square Chinatown Boston Harbor Portraits of America shopping trees toys politics work Boston Common South End art exhibition books North End Coolidge Corner Thanksgiving Central Square coffee Rose Kennedy Greenway holidays Tremont St Prudential Dorchester foliage Old Harbor Cambridge community
Tag Archives: Newbury St
Day 63: Newbury St
Followed by lunch at the Creperie on Newbury.
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
Posted in Boston Diaries
Tagged Back Bay, Bay Village, coffee, food, Mike and Patty's, Newbury St, Wired Puppy
Leave a comment
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.
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
Icon
“You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.” (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
Posted in Boston Diaries
Tagged art, Back Bay, JFK, Newbury St, Portraits of America
Leave a comment
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
Posted in Boston Diaries
Tagged Back Bay, Boston Public Library, coffee, Copley Square, jazz, libraries, Newbury St, shopping, Starbucks, work
Leave a comment