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Eric Fried, your music critic, must have gotten lost on the Arborway line on the way to see Neil Young at the Boston Garden...
Bizarre commentaries, like Mr. Fried's, make for interesting reading, but then again, didn't I see him getting on the Arborway line when I took the train to North Station? John Jacobs...
...track on which you can tell the season by the color of the trees as well as the outergarments of the other passengers. The Green Line's cars are throwbacks to the days when streetcars ruled Boston's thoroughfares, and the swerving, stop-and-go trolley route to Arborway is one of the last true streetcar routes in town. The ride may be pure agony to the impatient, but the Arborway stop at the end of the line is just a short walk from the entrance to the Arnold Arboretum--a Harvard-owned park that supposedly has every kind...
...Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is one of the finest in the country--its collections of Egyptian and Oriental art are the best in the Western Hemisphere. Take the Red Line subway to Park Street, transfer to the Arborway, get off at Northeastern and walk two blocks. Admission is $2.50, but you can get in free and buy a one-year student pass for $5.00. Hours are Wed.-Sun. 10-5, Tuesday 10-9. Right now the MFA is also on a bicentennial binge, with an exhibit on Paul Revere and a slide show on the Revolution...
Also of Interest: "Pablo Picasso--Printmaker" through December 8 at the Museum of Fine Arts (Arborway subway to Northeastern stop). An exhibition of books on Hans Holbein's sixteen-frame woodcut "The Dance of Death", through Sept. 30 at the Boston Athenaeum, 10 Beacon St. In Boston. Photographs by Dadaist Man Ray in the Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College, Sept. 30-Nov. 3. And, for all you frustrated peeping toms, photographs by Ron Galella, who is currently making a fortune off his new book on Jackie Onassis, at the Boston Harbor Campus of UMass, through October...