Word: haymarket
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State Street station unremarkable, Haymarket unremarkable and a little seedy looking besides. Curious mixture, of anticipation and dread seizing the occasion. What if it's all some crazy dream of the MBTA? What if the Orange Line has never changed and never will change in the eons to come? Maybe these unremarkable taints will shuttle off to eternity between these unremarkable stations...
...gilded with chic, the common man invested with intellect. In a nation of somewhat disheveled justice, Darrow did genuinely unpopular things as a lawyer from 1878 to 1938. He saved Leopold and Loeb from the death penalty, defended blacks against rape charges, kept the lynch mobs from the Haymarket "conspirators." He was an honest and useful...
...market's open every Friday and Saturday, but Friday crowds are different from Saturday crowds. On Fridays, the Haymarket is an outdoor grocery store for middle-class Belmont housewives. Saturday is the day for everyone else. Prices are cheapter, shoppers are wilder, and haggling...
Boston is a city which is famous for its tolerance of contrasts, its sense of history, and its ability to invest small pockets of space with rich meaning. As long as that character lasts, so will Haymarket...
Outdoor markets are giving way all over the country to supermarkets and suburban shopping centers, and over the years the market men have moved from the old neighborhoods in the North End out to Somerville, and Cambridge. But Haymarket is still an intensely human place, where there is a fierce brotherhood among competitors, and a vendor will still toss a few old cherries at the back of an obnoxious customer...