Boston Made Chronicles Boston Harbor’s islands were used for centuries as forts, quarantine stations, and even landfill before a decades-long cleanup transformed them into a national...
Boston Made Chronicles Founded in 1963, Boston Ballet grew into one of the largest ballet companies in the country, anchoring the city’s performing arts scene alongside...
Boston Made Chronicles Founded in 1945, Berklee College of Music built Boston’s reputation as a serious center for jazz, contemporary, and popular music education, drawing musicians...
Boston Made Chronicles Founded in Boston in 1898 and formalized in 1909, Northeastern University’s cooperative education model, alternating classroom study with real workplace experience, became a...
Boston Made Chronicles Best known for the Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe was also a fixture of Boston’s reform circles, championing suffrage, education,...
Boston Made Chronicles The Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government organized marches, lectures, and petition drives in the early 1900s, part of the long campaign...
Boston Made Chronicles Before the White House, the Kennedy family’s American story began in East Boston, where Patrick Joseph Kennedy rose from ward politics to help...
Boston Made Chronicles Once an elevated highway split the city in two; after the Big Dig buried the road underground, the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway turned...
Boston Made Chronicles In 1951, a local journalist proposed painting a walking line to connect Boston’s Revolutionary-era sites. In 1951, a local journalist proposed painting a...
Boston Made Chronicles Founded in Boston in 1906 as an arch-support company, New Balance grew into a global athletic footwear brand that still manufactures shoes in...
