The noted historian and gifted writer, David McCullough, cites a friend and fellow historian, the late Daniel Boorstin, as saying that to plan for the future without a sense of the past is like trying to plant cut flowers.

With these words in mind, we would like to offer you some rooted plants to sink into the fertile soil of Boston’s present as you plan your visit here whether it be virtually on-line, or in-the-flesh, as they say.

These plants, these stories of the events and activities that made Boston what she is, and perhaps, what she will become, will give you, we hope, a better and deeper understanding of why this old, yet very modern city on Massachusetts Bay, is what she is. Enjoy the planting, enjoy the harvest, enjoy Boston!