“Getting Around Town: Four Centuries of Mapping Boston in Transit,” located in the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center in the Boston Public Library, is the first transit map exhibit at the center and displays more than 400 years of the Boston’s transit system’s history through an extensive collection of maps, primary documents and.
If you ride the T on a daily basis, you probably have your own inside jokes about certain stops or lines. Well now, a group of Boston Public Library donors.
The Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library on Tuesday posted a new MBTA map featuring a host of creative station names and they’re not what you might expect.
Hear from the author of a revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground.<br/><br/>Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened that gave his desire greater urgency. His neighborhood still reeled from the January 6th insurrection. Covid lockdowns and a rancorous election had deepened America’s divides. Neil himself bore the imprints of a long battle with cancer.<br/><br/>Determined to rediscover what matters in life and to see our national story with new eyes, Neil turned north with a small satchel on his back and one mission in mind: To pay close attention to the land he crossed and the people he met.<br/><br/>What followed is an extraordinary 26-day journey through historic battlefields and cemeteries, over