2016-02-26

*** Sidewalk Weekend! ***

Sidewalk Rating: Premature

-->Probably the best known suburbanite to take advantage of the new facilities was Henry Thoreau. The transcendentalist picked a site for his mystical ruminations on nature at Walden Pond, a half hour by train from Boston. He built his hut less than 200 yards from the railroad within a short walk of the suburban homes of his commuting literary friends in Concord. Thoreau might complain about modern technology, but he also wanted proximity to Boston’s urban amenities.

[A bus climbing a snowy hill in Saint Paul.]


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The list of his guests is, frankly, astonishing. Among the thousands over the decades: Buster Keaton, Jacques Cousteau, Saul Alinsky, Allen Ginsberg, Ethel Merman, Cesar Chavez, Woody Allen, Bertrand Russell, Shirley MacLaine,James Baldwin, Mahalia Jackson, Janis Joplin, Hunter S. Thompson, David Mamet, Carol Channing, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mort Sahl, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Pete Seeger and Muhammad Ali.

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The old Penalty Box across from the TD Garden is gone, too. Now it’s the Causeway Restaurant & Bar. And perhaps nothing offers a more distilled view of changing Boston than the contrasting Yelp reviews.
“I came in here before the BeanPot,” a Penalty Box reviewer named Marcus D. wrote in 2011, a couple of years before the place closed. “There were about four old men in here, one sleeping loudly at the end of the bar.”
His rating: five stars.

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He had this huge map, and when he would get excited and talk to you, he would jump up, he used these yellow pencils with erasers, and he’d have one in his hand. He’d say, the Mosholu Parkway, which he wanted to build, which would have destroyed the character of another swath of the Bronx. But to listen to him, he’d say, “Can’t you see? The highway goes here, we can have the parks here, and then we’ll have housing here,” and you saw that this guy thought in terms of an entire—and so many of the early things he did were masterpieces, like Jones Beach.

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“In other northern cities, the black community built capacity and political power. They built churches, cultural institutions, newspapers, social organizations, and they had to be dealt with. The white people may not have liked it, but they had to be dealt with. Here, to some degree African Americans are under the radar. Racism, white supremacy is a complicated thing. If there aren’t a lot of people of color around, white people tolerate them. But when they’re around they have to be dealt with."


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