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Shining city on a hill

Once Upon A Time In Boston - A Gritty City Literary Timeline

posted Aug 26, 2019 in In the Spotlight, Andover Room Blog

Consider Boston, a shining "city on a hill." John Winthrop, the Puritan Bay Colony Governor, set the bar high quoting the New Testament to ascribe grand aspirations to a small peninsula sourounded by swampland.  Nineteenth century engineers that filled in what we now call the Back Bay...

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