John Pizzarelli Swing Seven: Dear Mr. Sinatra
I’ve been a fan of swing jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli since the 1990s, so when I saw that he was playing a gig relatively close to Boston at the impressive Groton Hill Music Center, I …
Tag: Massachusetts
The Harvard Museum of Natural History
The Harvard Museum of Natural History is one of several museums located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a large rambling museum with specimens drawn from the University’s three natural …
Museum of Bad Art
First, it’s located in a brewery. Second, its tagline is “art too bad to be ignored.” Yes, of course we had to visit the Museum of Bad Art in Boston, Massachusetts. MOBA aims “to celebrate …
A Few More Highlights at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
We just did a quick dash through the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, since we’d already previously done a thorough job (pre-vanlife) but wanted to revisit a few highlights now that we have collected some …
John Singer Sargent at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Having just read Portraits of an Artist by Mary F. Burns, I was excited to return to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston to review the John Singer Sargent collection with a fresh eye. The …
Blaschka Glass Flowers
We went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History to see something very unusual: Blaschka Glass Flower collection. You can imagine Doug’s delight to be stuck with me looking at two of my favorite things, …
Concord Museum
The Concord Museum (in Concord, Massachusetts, naturally) is a small local history museum, in an area rich in local history. Concord has earned a place on the map for both our country’s political history and …
The Mapparium
The Mapparium is a stained-glass globe that is viewed from a 30-foot-long bridge through its center. It’s three stories tall, and is located at the Christian Science Publishing Society (CSPS) in Boston, Massachusetts. Among other …
Gore Place
Another historic house tour for us, this time Gore Place in Waltham, Massachusetts. The 1806 Federal-style mansion was built as a summer home for Christopher Gore (1758–1827) and his family. Gore was a lawyer and …
Arlington Street Church
The Arlington Street Church was built between 1859–1861 in Boston’s Back Bay, though its congregation (Unitarian Universalist) dates to 1729. The reason for my visit was to see the church’s 16 large-scale Tiffany windows, believed …