Boston Behind the Scenes

This episode is a bit of an enigma: we’ll visit Eureka Puzzles in Coolidge Corner.
I’ve always loved puzzles — particularly those little metal ones you have to take apart. The problem is that over the years I’ve gotten pretty good at them, and most of the new ones I find are pretty easy. That’s not […]

 

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This time we’ll visit the largest membership library in the country, the Boston Athenaeum.
The Athenaeum is in the middle of celebrating its 200th year with an impressive exhibition covering their continuous collecting of books and art over the last two centuries. The building holds books, paintings, and sculptures from the libraries of John Quincy Adams, […]

 

 Boston Athenaeum [24:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This show is an exciting look at Boston’s 500,000-spectator sporting event, the Boston Marathon.
2007 marks the 111th running of the oldest annual marathon in the world. Started just one year after the first modern Olympics revived the marathon in 1896, the Boston Marathon brings tens of thousands of runners to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, then quite literally […]

 

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