Word: charlestown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...question about the ideal location of the theater was on Harvard's Geography 1 exam (answer: halfway between Harvard Square and the Charlestown Navy Yard...
Beginning this fall, members will run afterschool workshops on diversity at Charlestown High School, which was depicted in the Pulitzer-Prize-winning tome Common Ground by former Crimson executive J. Anthony Lukas '54 as the site of anti-busing unrest during the 1970s...
...counter Harvard's superior skills, Brown rolled out its version of the Hanson Brothers from "Slap Shot". For the uninitiated, they were the goon squad of the Charlestown Chiefs hockey club, the movie's subject...
...most pleasurable and most frustrating part of my daily routine. My daily trek from Somerville begins with a short walk to the T station, followed by subway rides on the red and green lines, and concluding with a ride on a shuttle bus to my final destination in Charlestown. The commute can sometimes be unbearable--there is no greater feeling of powerlessness than sitting trapped for 15 minutes inside a motionless subway car between two stations. But the long journey gives me plenty of time to stare off into space, reflect, watch the passersby, even catch up on current affairs...
Look for the tell-tale signs of gentrification--the too-freshly painted fire escapes and Volvos parked along the street as you leave the North End. Then cross the Charles River to the predominantly Irish Charlestown and Bunker Hill Monument, a 220 foot obelisk that commemorates one of the first battles of the Revolutionary...