I’m back in America. America is what people on the island call the mainland. “I have to go to America today. Dentist appointment.” “I missed the boat and got stuck in America.”
Here are a few pictures from America. Burdock in bloom. Warnings from a stone wall that has “achieved balance.” An alley in Fort Point. A tour guide on the Common. Berklee students performing jazz at Atlantic Wharf. A decorative plaque on a building that wasn’t always a hotel.
I have two questions. Who knew that burdock had pink flowers? What are “spitting spiders”?
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I can’t help with answers to your questions but I have one of my own–what building is that plaque on and what did it used to be? (Oops–two questions.)
It’s the Langham Hotel today but was once the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. There are some large murals by N.C. Wyeth still inside, including “Abraham Lincoln and Salmon P. Chase Conferring About the National Bank Act of 1863.”
Thanks! It’s beautiful–I’ll need to check it out next time I’m in town!