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BOSTON – Bryan Glascock, Deputy Director for Regulatory Reform at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, has his work cut out for him. Appointed by Mayor Marty Walsh in 2014 to be Boston's first zoning chief, Glascock's job is to cull Boston's 3,000-page zoning code and
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CAMBRIDGE — Even for non-students, living near a world-famous college has its perks. In the last few months alone, I've sat front row at a free lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Marilynne Robinson, had the rare opportunity to visit the storerooms below the Harvard Semitic Museum, and see a
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Fact is stranger than fiction! Enjoy these odd (but true!) landmark events in Boston's history: No. 1: Fenway's red seat
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Mary Dyer was executed in Boston in 1660. Dyer was a Quaker spiritual leader who became a martyr. She refused to obey anti-Quaker laws, most famously the October 1658 statute that banned Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony or face death. Dyer and several other Quakers chose to make a
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The Boston coppersmith Paul Revere, while famous for his midnight ride, was also part of a ring of spies called the "Mechanics." According to the CIA, the Mechanics were the first intelligence network to spring up among American patriots in the restive British colonies. Revere wrote about how
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OK, he wasn't exactly from Boston, but John Adams (along with his second-cousin Samuel Adams) was among the most famous denizens of the city during and after the American Revolution. John, born in a part of Braintree that is now Quincy, was among the Founding Fathers who rose
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Louisa May Alcott is famous for her novels, such as "Little Women," but her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, was well-known in his time for founding the Transcendentalist utopian community Fruitlands. The communal experiment lasted for only about six months, from June to December 1843, and was located in
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Since Boston is essentially a boggy peninsula in the Atlantic, you'd probably think the city's worst flood disaster would involve water. But the Great Molasses Flood holds that unsavory honor. Molasses can be distilled into rum or industrial alcohol, and the Purity Distilling Co. built a