Dr Tony Shaw

Before we left Boston, Massachusetts, late October, this was the scene in Dewey Square. $45,000 in donations had been received, a library f...

The rear inside cover tells us that E. B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan 'was named an ALA Notable Children's Book'. The b...

'EDGAR ALLAN POE POET   STORYWRITER   CRITIC BORN ON CARVER STREET JANUARY 19, 1809, TO DAVID AND ELIZABETH (ELIZA) POE, ...

Wendell Phillips (1811-84) was a lawyer who ceased practising law after seeing abolitionist George Thompson almost being lynched for his vie...

Beacon Hill is a neighborhood in Boston north of the Public Garden and Boston Common, with the boundaries Storrow Drive to the west, Cambri...

  'The Parker House 'One of Boston's luxury hotels, opened by innovative hostellier Harvey Parker, the Parker House has bee...

King's Chapel Burying Ground is on Tremont Street, downtown Boston, the city's oldest cemetery. Nathaniel Hawthorne used to enjoy...

The Old Bookstore is on the corner of School and Washington streets in Downtown Boston. 'The Old Corner Bookstore 'Thomas C...

'KAHLIL GIBRAN, A NATIVE OF BESHARRI, LEBANON, FOUND LITERARY AND ARTISTIC SUSTENANCE IN THE DENISON SETTLEMENT HOUSE, THE BOSTON PUB...

The magnificent Robert Gould Shaw memorial (described below) stands north-east of Boston Common opposite the Massachusetts State House on th...

The statue of Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) stands close to the duckling sculpture near the Charles Street entrance to the Public Garden i...

A pedal-powered swan boat on the lake in the Public Garden, Boston, pulls into dock at the end of a tour. It was of an event during one such...

Boston's Public Garden is a rectangle bounded by Beacon, Charles, Boylston, and Arlington streets, and there's a fascinating sculptu...