It’s Prince Spaghetti day here in Boston! Over the years I have grown to love Italian culture….and of course the amazing food. Irish and Italians have forged a unique relationship over the generations here in Boston. We certainly poke fun at each other from time …
Personally, I have enjoyed Youk while he was here. Over the years I was able to perfect his “batting face”. You know…those nutty faces he does every time he’s waiting on a pitch. Always a hit at a party! Anyway…Youk was a dirt dog….a blue …
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The Dorchester Giant by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) THERE was a giant in time of old, A mighty one was he; He had a wife, but she was a scold, So he kept her shut in his mammoth fold; And he had children three. It …
I know…some of the most beautiful houses in Dorchester. This is what it looked like in 1889….when the Carruth family owned pretty much the entire patch of land from Carruth street down to Adams street. When you’re the director of the Old Colony Railroad, Dorchester Gaslight …
Could you imagine your life without the internet? Probably not…. Did you know the internet went live in 1969? Back then it was called Arpanet. Do you know what kind of role Massachusetts had in creating the internet? There’s a small inconspicuous campus that sits over by Alewife station in Cambridge owned by a company called BBN or Bolt Beraneck and Newman.
This is the company that built the IMP or Interface Message Processor….which enabled communications between computers. Without the IMP…there is no internet. The IMP was the size of a fridge….but now that same work is done by that little ethernet port on the back of your laptop or PC or by your wireless chip. BBN went on to invent EMAIL and the @ symbal in 1971….could you imagine life without email?
Who knew we had all that history at the end of the Red Line….
Being a history buff of sorts…I always thought it was cool to have been born within one of the original 13 colonies. So… a while back I decided to create my own line of T-Shirts based on the colonies. Check them out here : http://www.cafepress.com/theoriginalxiii …
So….fellow Dot Rat Emily Sweeney of the Boston Globe is gearing up to release her book in about 47 days. This looks like a great read, I’m looking forward to learning more about the prohibition era in Boston….it’s tough to picture this city without booze. We certainly like …
that the Irish labor was cheap and plentiful because of the famine…
But in 1871 we were still fighting for a slice of the American dream. Little did the Brahmin know…there was a family from East Boston in their midst that would eventually get their share then go on to change the world.
