Oral history
City Life
Oral History: The 1999 All-Star Game That Saved Fenway Park
In 1999, before the seemingly endless parade of championships in this town, Boston sports fans were longing for a win—any win. The Patriots were in […]
Arts & Entertainment
An Oral History of Wally’s Café
When Wally’s Paradise opened its doors in 1947, it wasn’t just serving up stiff drinks and smokin’ jazz to patrons—it was making history. After all, […]
City Life
On the Waterfront: An Oral History of the Boston Seaport
A largely uninhabitable industrial zone built on landfill during the 1850s, the Seaport spent most of the 20th century as a vast wasteland of parking […]
Restaurants
An Oral History of the Last Real Bar on Martha’s Vineyard
Exhume an early-20th-century native of Martha’s Vineyard today, and they’d hardly recognize their island. The Gay Head Cliffs, the great ponds, and the beaches would […]