Word: faneuil
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...attempt to restore Main Streets into quaint shopping and entertainment areas in reaction to the spread of big malls. It's a very localized version of what is sometimes called the Rousing of America--the creation by developers such as James Rouse of entertaining renovated shopping areas like Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston or Harborplace in Baltimore, Md. Now you can find the Rousing impulse in small towns such as Cairo or tiny hamlets such as Kimmswick, Mo., which are exposing every brick and cobblestone in an attempt to cash in on the current prosperity...
...Independence Day ceremony at Faneuil Hall Tuesday morning, Mayor Thomas M. Menino welcomed the estimated 20,000 Shriners who traveled to Boston for the convention...
...virtues enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The tradition has more or less died. This year's version in tradition-bound Boston--where the Fourth of July oration has somehow staggered into the 21st century--might explain why. Under the giant portrait of Daniel Webster at Faneuil Hall, an Imperial Potentate of the Shriners was the speaker this year. He called on his audience to volunteer in their communities. As one might expect, it was not a particularly memorable speech...
...masses then followed a parade of revolutionary war re-enactors, marching bands and armed services units to Faneuil Hall, where inside a captivated audience listened to speeches and a rousing rendition of "Stars and Stripes Forever" by the John Shea Military Band...
...moral. Drucker is correct. A new world of Major League Baseball is emerging. Boston society is rearranging itself. But morality implies rightness and wrongness. Saving Fenway Park is moral. Boston might gain the corporate world of MLB, yet lose its very soul. Fenway Park is as Boston as Faneuil Hall. Saving Fenway Park is a family value...