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The Boston Christmas Tree is the City of Boston, Massachusetts' official Christmas tree. A tree has been lit each year since 1941, [1] and since 1971 it has been given to the people of Boston by the people of Nova Scotia in thanks for their assistance after the 1917 Halifax Explosion. The tree is lit in the Boston Common throughout the ...
NEW YORK – For the first time in 15 years, both New York City and Boston woke up to a white Christmas. Forecasters with the National Weather Service office in New York were out in Central Park ...
Christmas observance was outlawed in Boston in 1659. [60] The ban on Christmas observance was revoked in 1681 by English governor Edmund Andros, but it was not until the mid-19th century that celebrating Christmas became fashionable in the Boston region. [64] At the same time, Christian residents of Virginia and New York observed the holiday ...
WGBX-TV provided the first gavel-to-gavel telecast of an American state legislature in 1984 when the Massachusetts House of Representatives agreed to have their sessions televised in full, and it was a test bed for experimentation with new digital audio standards in the late 1980s. In the 1990s, WGBX-TV programming was revamped to feature ...
A photo of Volpe examining the plaque from a fire engine ladder appeared on page one of the October 6, 1966 edition of the Boston Herald. [12] In 1974, funding was approved for a small park at Washington and Essex, which was part of an area known as the Combat Zone at the time. [13]
Old North Church was established in 1723 and initially named Christ Church in the City of Boston. It was Boston's second Anglican Church and a social nexus for Boston's younger merchants and privateers. [3] The older Anglican Church, King's Chapel, was a long-time favorite of Boston's wealthy elite. The esteemed status of the King's Chapel and ...
Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts, also known as New Old South Church or Third Church, is a historic United Church of Christ congregation first organized in 1669. Its present building was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears, completed in 1873, and amplified by the architects Allen & Collens between 1935–1937.