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  • Official Name: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Capital: Boston
  • Population: 6,349,097 (2000 U.S. Census Bureau)
  • Area: 8,257 square miles (land and water)
  • Climate: Average monthly temperatures in Boston range from 28.2° in January to 72.0° in July
  • Quick Facts
    • Massachusetts has produced half of all the Nobel Prize winners in the country
    • The State's total R&D expenditures are nearly 3 times greater than the national average
  • Major League Sports Teams
    • Baseball- Boston Red Sox
    • Football- New England Patriots
    • Hockey- Boston Bruins
    • Basketball- Boston Celtics

   
Boston Red Sox Schedule
9/1/2010 7:05 PM
Red Sox at Orioles
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Rays at Red Sox
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Red Sox at Mariners
9/14/2010 10:10 PM
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9/15/2010 6:40 PM
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Blue Jays at Red Sox
9/18/2010 7:10 PM
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9/19/2010 1:35 PM
Blue Jays at Red Sox
9/20/2010 7:10 PM
Orioles at Red Sox
9/21/2010 7:10 PM
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9/22/2010 7:10 PM
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9/24/2010 7:05 PM
Red Sox at Yankees
9/25/2010 3:33 AM
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9/27/2010 8:10 PM
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9/28/2010 8:10 PM
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10/1/2010 7:10 PM
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Boston Area


The Glass Flowers - A Botanical Museum collection
Harvard Museum of Natural History


This unique collection of over 3,000 models was created by the glass artisans, Leopold Blaschka and his son, Rudolph. The commission began in 1886, continued for five decades, and represents more than 830 plant species.

26 Oxford Street and at 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA. Open daily from 9 a.m to 5 p.m.


Museum of Fine Arts
Scaasi: American Couturier
Arnold Scaasi, who began his business in New York in the mid-1950s was one of the few New York designers to concentrate on custom-made clothing rather than ready-to-wear. He has designed for the 20th century’s most celebrated artists and most fashionable socialites
September 25, 2010 - June 19, 2011

Scaasi: American Couturier

Around the State
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft


Digital video and audio, computerized design, and other technologies are viewed as new materials to be exploited, manipulated and co-opted to enrich artistic expression.
Through February 6, 2011
The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft

Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, 413-298-4100 x 221
Rockwell and the Movies

Explore Rockwell’s art for the movies including original paintings, vintage posters, lobby cards, and original portraits of movie stars. Though Norman Rockwell is often identified with home town life in New England, he was a frequent visitor to California, and was called upon by Hollywood to create imagery for posters advertising entertaining feature films of his day.
July 3 through October 31, 2010

Rockwell and the Movies

Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum
35 acres of beautiful rolling woodlands and lawns, and is the largest park of its kind in New England. The Sculpture Park provides a constantly changing exhibition of large-scale, outdoor, Modern and contemporary American sculpture and site-specific installations.
Lincoln, 781/259-8355
DeCordova Sculpture Park

The Blue Man Group and Shear Madness are playing in Boston. The following are scheduled for the 2010 season. See http://www.broadwayacrossamerica.com/Boston and Arts Boston for more info.
  • Wicked
  • Rock of Ages
  • Jersey Boys
  • Mary Poppins
  • Hair
  • West Side Story
  • Johnny Baseball
  • Into The Woods
  • Pilobolus
  • Rent
  • Gypsy
  • Grimm
 
 
   

1 September 1897
Subway service opened between Park and Boylston Streets (Boston)
3 September 1898
Subway service opened between Shawmut Avenue Tremont Street to North Station in Boston
6 September 1620
Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, England
7 September 1772
First stage coach runs from Boston to New York
7 September 1630
The Massachusetts town of Trimontaine (Shawmut), was renamed Boston, and became the state capital. It was named after a town of the same name in Lincolnshire, England.
8 September 1636
Harvard College, the first college in America, was founded as Cambridge College. It changed its name two years later in honor of the Reverend John Harvard, who gave the institution three hundred books and a large sum of money for the day.
8 September 1923
Logan Airport opens in Boston
9 September 1919
Boston police go on strike, martial law declared the next day
10 September 1835
Anti-abolition mob erects a gallows outside the home of William Lloyd Garrison in Boston
10 September 1846
Sewing machine patent issued to Elias Howe
11 September 1918
Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago Cubs (2-1) to win the World Series
12 September 1748
Prince Hall, black leader in Boston and founder of the first Black Masonic Lodge, is born.
12 September 1768
Boston calls on its people to arm in order to oppose British tyranny.
13 September 1742
Faneuil Hall completed and presented to the town of Boston
14 September 1776
Massachusetts bars sale of blacks captured in the Revolutionary War
16 September 1823
Historian Francis Parkman born in Boston
16 September 1620
The Pilgrims sailed from England on the Mayflower, finally settling at Plymouth, Mass.
18 September 1779
Supreme Court justice Joseph Story born in Marblehead.
19 September 1836
Ralph W. Emerson helps organize the Transcendental Club in Boston.
21 September 1832
At Franklin Hall in Boston, Maria Stewart attacks slavery in the first public lecture delivered by a black woman.
21 September 1938
Great Hurricane of 1938
21 September 1952
Boston Braves play last game at Braves Field, Boston
23 September 1864
Liberator publishes Frederick Douglass's endorsement of Lincoln for President in Boston.
23 September 1991
Construction begins on Boston’s "Big Dig".
24 September 1831
Liberator publishes first proposal of "African American" as a term for blacks in Boston.
24 September 1831
Dedication of Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.
24 September 1831
Liberator publishes first proposal of "African American" as a term for blacks in Boston.
25 September 1690
First newspaper published in America-Publick Occurances, Both Foreign and Domestic (Boston)
27 September 1722
Revolutionary statesman Samuel Adams born in Boston
28 September 1829
David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World is published, calling for abolition of slavery by any means. (Boston)
29 September 1690
Publick Occurances, Both Foreign and Domestic suppressed by proclamation of the governor
29 September 1995
Boston Garden closes its doors for the last time
30 September 1750
Crispus Attucks escapes from slavery in Framingham, Massachusetts aboard a whaling ship.

 
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What is your favorite uniquely-Boston food?

Candy baked beans
Gummi lobsters
Frappes
Grinders
Penuche
Scrod


 

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Brief Guide To MA
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Massachusetts Knowledge Quiz


This famous Patriot was born 300 years ago in Boston. At age 16, he secretly wrote a series of witty, satirical letters signed, “Mrs. Silence Dogood” and published in his brother’s newspaper, where he worked as an apprentice. The letters charmed Boston, but when his brother learned the true identity of the author, the ill will caused him to permanently leave Boston for Philadelphia. Who was this famous American?

A. Thomas Jefferson
B. William Pitt
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Penn

In Massachusetts-speak what can be described as a sandwich or a sub baked in a pizza oven?

What book written by Robert McCloskey is honored by a series of bronze sculptures by Nancy Schoen in Boston’s Public Garden?

Test your Massachusetts wisdom with our Massachusetts Knowledge Quizzes. Score high on our latest quiz and win a discount on your next purchase. (Answers to above questions: C-Benjamin Franklin, A-grinder, and Make Way for Ducklings)

Massachusetts Language
The unusual accent of Bostonians may have originated in East Umbria, England. Here are some translations of common Massachusetts terms. For more, visit the Wicked Good Guide to Boston English.

Frappe A milkshake or malted elsewhere, here it's ice cream, milk and chocolate syrup blended together. The 'e' is silent. Despite the chocolate syrup, it actually comes in many flavors.
Badadoes- Come baked or French fried
Wicket – Means “very”, as in “wicked” good
Smoot - Unit of measure across the Harvard Bridge near MIT
Tonic - A soda
Hamburg - Goes with hot dog
Hermits - Molasses cookies.
Milkshake - Milk with some flavored syrup, but NO ice cream.

Examples of Place Name Pronunciation
Worcester – cross between wooster and wister
Gloucester- glosster
Leominster- lemunster


The Boston Citgo Sign
London has Big Ben, Paris has the Eiffel Tower. Boston has the CITGO sign. Ever since 1965, the CITGO sign has held a place deep in the hearts of Boston residents. Learn all about it and download a Citgo Sign screensaver. Boston Citgo Sign

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