Strolling through a Cemetery: Thoughts from Mount Auburn Cemetery
On a sunny May day, I set off for a relaxing and romantic stroll-through a graveyard.
Boston
Et tu, Brutalism?
On a campus full of stately brick collegiate neo-Gothic buildings, I can think of no more universally hated place on campus than the sole Brutalist structure, our Science Center. For four years, it was my academic home base and so I have a special place in my heart for this inside-out building but from the […]Read Post ›
Specters in Residence: Gardner & Guggenheim
Ghosts are not the stuff of fairytales. Vibrant personalities leave their impressions on the places they inhabit. Many of these spaces suffer destruction, alteration, redecoration—look at any number of “home museums” and you’ll find period furniture, recreating the ambiance of a place and time. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum looks a bit like a haunted […]Read Post ›
Little Wendy in the Big City
Although I have always considered myself a Bostonian, I have never lived in the city proper-until now.
