MIT reflection Boston is the perfect marriage of historic colonial preservation with economic modernization. The city features a spectacular skyline of imposing scrapers, which mixes well with the church steeples, old clock towers, and other historic structures dotted around town.[1] But Boston’s people are as diverse as its architecture. This “City on the Hill”[2] is […]
Locals and Tourists #14 (GTWA #7): Boston Brookline is a suburb of Boston, located southwest of the big city. Though it is a suburb, it has a mixed urban and suburban feel to it, offering city amenities like shops and parks mixed in with apartment complexes and large estates. It is also known as the […]
Cape Cod (T.A. Marciano) Massachusetts has often been described as the “heart of American independence”, “the soul of a young country”, and the “fire and brimstone of Puritanism”. At least all of these elements were present in Colonial Massachusetts.[1] And like in the colonial days, Massachusetts remains the gateway and capstone of New England. Known […]