The Handy Boston Answer Book
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Whether it's called Beantown, The Olde Towne, Titletown, The Cradle of Liberty, The Athens of America, The Puritan City, The City on a Hill, or any of its other obscure or oft-repeated nicknames, Boston has a long and varied history. Its universities and hospitals lead the nation, and its sports teams, politicians, and colloquialisms continue to captivate. Exploring this city’s fascinating history, people, myths, culture, and trivia, The Handy Boston Answer Book takes an in-depth look at one of America's oldest major cities.Learn about the city’s founding by Puritan settlers, the Boston Massacre, the Great Fire, the opening of the T, the busing desegregation strife, the Big Dig, the local sports fanatics, ethnic enclaves, and the surrounding suburbs, notable sons and daughters, and more are all packed into this comprehensive guide to the city of Boston. Through facts, stats, and history, as well as the unusual and quirky, it answers 1,200 fascinating questions, including What cities and towns comprise the “Greater Boston” region? What do Samuel Adams, James Taylor, Benjamin Franklin, and Taylor Schilling have in common? Are “Tonics” and “Whoopie Pies” available at most “Spas”? What do the colored lights on top of the old Hancock signal?
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Samuel Willard Crompton. The Handy Boston Answer Book
Timeline
THE FIRST GOVERNMENT
BOSTON TURNS INTO MASSACHUSETTS
INDIAN WARS
LOSS OF THE CHARTER
SCIENCE AND RELIGION
FORESHADOWING THE REVOLUTION
THE GREAT WAR FOR EMPIRE
KING GEORGE III AND HIS COLONISTS
THE STAMP ACT
THE DECLATORY ACTS
THE BOSTON MASSACRE
AN AFRICAN AMERICAN VOICE
THE BRITISH OCCUPATION
APRIL 19, 1775
BUNKER HILL AND BREED’S HILL
A DIFFERENT SOLUTION
FROM REVOLUTION TO NATIONALISM
END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
THE PHYSICAL SCENE
MISCELLANY
THE WAR OF 1812
BOSTON AS SEEN BY LAFAYETTE
TURNING WATER INTO DRY LAND
THE CAUSE OF HUMANKIND
THE TORCH PASSES
THE IRISH
BOSTON AREA HUMANITARIANS
COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR
AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS FROM BOSTON
BOSTON’S TRIUMPH AND THE GOLDEN YEARS
THE NEW TRINITY CHURCH
BOSTON IN 1874
ETHNIC WARS
WORLD WAR I
AFTERMATH OF THE GREAT WAR
POSTWAR CONSERVATISM
THE 1930s
WORLD WAR II
URBAN RENEWAL—PHASE ONE
THE 1960s
THE KENNEDY INFLUENCE
THE 1970s
PRIDE AND SHAME
BLIZZARD TO BLIZZARD
THE SHOCKING CHARLES STUART CASE
TALL SHIPS AND TALL BUILDINGS
THE BIG DIG
TURN OF THE CENTURY
ETHNIC REALITIES
THE BEGINNINGS
TARZAN
THE GREAT BOOM
WOMEN IN THE MARATHON
THE 1980 DEBACLE
FINANCIAL CRISIS
THE WOMEN’S AND WHEELCHAIR RACES
THE BOMBINGS
THE LOWEST DECADE
THE YAWKEY ERA
THE WILLIAMS ERA
THE YASTRZEMSKI ERA
THE SEASON OF 1978
THE POST-1978 SLUMP
THE WORLD SERIES OF 1986
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR
THE NEW MILLENNIUM
ROAD TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP
REDEMPTION ACHIEVED
THE CELTICS
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
THE BOSTON BRUINS
COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS
THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
THE FITZGERALDS
THE KENNEDYS
PRESIDENT KENNEDY
THE KENNEDY SENATORS
ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL
GOVERNOR DUKAKIS
SENATOR KERRY
GOVERNOR ROMNEY
THE BULGERS
HARVARD
HARVARD IN TRANSITION
MIT
BOSTON COLLEGE AND BOSTON UNIVERSITY
OTHER SCHOOLS
LESSER-KNOWN SCHOOLS
FIEDLER AND THE BOSTON POPS
FOLK AND ROCK MUSIC
MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES, AND ARCHIVES
BOSTON ON TV AND IN THE MOVIES
SQUARES
NEIGHBORHOODS
HOW BOSTON BECAME A “MEDICAL TOWN”
THE BUILDING BOOM
THE WEATHER
GENERATION SHIFT
RUGGED INDIVIDUALS
MEN AND WOMEN OF ACTION
THE ARTISTS
COLLOQUIALISMS
TRIVIA
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About the Author
Samuel Willard Crompton is a native of Massachusetts who has visited about thirty of the fifty states. During a break from his literary endeavors he took a thirty-day train trip around the entire perimeter of the country, and he’s never been the same since. Some of the highlights were the Four Mile Bridge at Astoria and Cut Bank, Montana. Crompton is the author or editor of many books, including The Illustrated Atlas of Native American History and Visible Ink’s The Handy Civil War Answer Book and The Handy Military History Answer Book. He is a specialist in the French and Indian Wars and has served as a talking head for the Military Channel on its First Command program. Crompton teaches history at Holyoke Community College in Massachusetts, where he has seen his students move from the analog to digital ages. He resides in Hadley, Massachusetts.
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They did. Phips was an embarrassment to the more dignified Puritan leaders, and no one could sort out or explain the witchcraft episode (people continue to attempt to do so today). The war with French Canada did not go well, and numerous Massachusetts residents were captured and taken north, to be held for ransom. To top it all off, many Bostonians were displeased with the Charter of 1691, which, they asserted, did not provide them with the liberties they had previously enjoyed.
Could things get any worse? That is a natural question that emerges from this period. And the one way in which matters did get worse was the weather. The 1690s saw some of the coldest, most ferocious winters in all of Boston history. Many believe 1697 was the worst. Through this decade, which Reverend Cotton Mather labeled the “dol orous decade,” the economic recession continued. It was with little sadness that Bostonians witnessed the end of the seventeenth century, and Sam Sewall penned their sentiments in some of the most memorable words:
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