I went out at lunch this week and took pictures of a public art project I had somehow overlooked: Boston Bricks. The bronze bricks are set among ordinary bricks in a narrow alley called Winthrop Lane, not far from Downtown Crossing and Macy’s. Although the styles look very different to me, the bricks are all by Kate Burke and Gregg Lefevre.
Here are eight of them. I include the artists’ credit brick, Boston in relation to the moon, a horseman who is either Paul Revere or George Washington, swans suitable for a Boston swan boat, tea bags suitable for a Boston tea party, directions to Provincetown, America’s first subway (1898), and the Great Molasses Flood.
If you are not from the area, that last one is no joke. The molasses flood was deadly. A book about it, The Dark Tide, is available at bookstores or online.
[8/14/13 new research showing that the type of molasses added to its destructiveness.]
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I haven’t made it back to Boston since hitting the east coast in January (after a 4-year stint in the “interior”). I can see that it’s getting night time to make a visit. Thanks for the heads-up about the Bricks. I hadn’t heard of them. Fascinating.
There are surprising things tucked here and there downtown. There’s a statue of Robert Burns near the bricks and another dedicated to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution near Post Office Sq. The Greenway is wonderful. as are the Fort Point neighborhood and the Harborwalk outside the Federal Courthouse.