Synopses & Reviews
From a witch hanging on Boston Common to the first time two brides legally walked down the aisle together, It Happened in Boston offers a unique look at intriguing people and episodes from the history of Beantown.Learn about the incredible, 300-mile journey that led to the British evacuation of Boston in 1776. Meet the heroic soldiers of the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth, the first African-American regiment to take up arms in the Civil War. And read the rap sheets of Bostons most notorious criminals, including the slippery thieves who stripped $300 million in art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. In an easy-to-read style thats entertaining and informative, author Julia Boulton Clinger recounts some of the most captivating moments from Bostons past.
Synopsis
Step off the Freedom Trail to explore lesser-known landscapes in Boston's history. A city of statesmen and scoundrels, freedom fighters and reactionaries, innovators and iconoclasts, "The Hub" comes alive in twenty-seven colorful storiesfrom the Indian plague that preceded the first Puritan settlement to the leaky last stages of the Big Dig.
Synopsis
Step off the Freedom Trail to explore lesser-known landscapes in Boston's history. A city of statesmen and scoundrels, freedom fighters and reactionaries, innovators and iconoclasts, "The Hub" comes alive in twenty-eight colorful stories
from the Indian plague that preceded the first Puritan settlement to the leaky last stages of the Big Dig.
About the Author
Julia Clinger has written exhaustively about Boston for publications both local and national.