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A locked door and myriad treasures beyond, in vast rooms deemed unusable at Boston Public Library – The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe A locked door and myriad treasures beyond, in vast rooms deemed unusable at Boston Public Library By Malcolm Gay, The Boston Globe updated on October 3, 2025, 7 minutes to read Past the imposing stone lions, the golden-hued stairwell gives way to an airy gallery of murals, a millennium-spanning celebration of the…
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Cheers in Boston | National Trust for Historic Preservation
February 5, 2015, By Geoff Montes The Boston pub that inspired the fictional bar in the NBC sitcom, Cheers, is actually a real neighborhood institution that has been serving its Beacon Hill environs for over 45 years. Established in 1969 by Thomas A. Kershaw, the bar where everybody knows your name was originally the Bull…
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Amtrak adding private rooms on Northeast Regional trains: Boston, NYC, DC
Travelers booking the rooms will get access to private onboard facilities and get to use Amtrak’s premium lounges in Boston and Washington. The overnight trains between Washington, DC, and Boston are getting slightly more bearable with upgrades coming this spring. Amtrak will offer private rooms on late-night Northeast Regional trains running between Washington and Boston…
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UMass Boston professors upset by cut in funding for library – The Boston Globe
Healey Library is struggling with a 20 percent loss in funding, or $700,000. Source: UMass Boston professors upset by cut in funding for library – The Boston Globe
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Ernest Hemingway’s son tours new exhibit at JFK Library – The Boston Globe
For the first time Saturday, Hemingway’s sole surviving son, Patrick, saw the photograph during a private tour of a new exhibition about his father at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Source: Ernest Hemingway’s son tours new exhibit at JFK Library – The Boston Globe
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FFF: Super Bowl XLIX: Feb. 1, 2015
Super Bowl XLIX will be played Feb. 1 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. This will be the second time the NFL’s championship game will be held in Glendale and the third time in the Phoenix metropolitan area. To commemorate this event, the Census Bureau has compiled a collection of facts examining the…
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Boston Public Library helps suburban institutions put historic images online – West – The Boston Globe
The Natick facility is among 200 libraries, museums, schools, historical societies, and other institutions across Massachusetts that are using the services of the Boston Public Library to photograph, digitize, and post images to Digital Commonwealth (www.digitalcommonwealth.org), the state’s Newton-based consolidated online library, according to the BPL’s digital projects manager, Tom Blake. The process is free…




