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Boston Massachusetts
is an historic city of contrasts. Ancient red-brick sidewalks twist past
handsome Federalist houses on the way to soaring glass towers housing state-of-the-art
technology. The sports teams are the best loved and the most hated at one
and the same time. Residents are fiercely protective of their neighborhoods
and fiercely critical of the MBTA, the government and the weather.
In the harbors of Boston lie both
the majestic U.S.S. Constitution, still commissioned to fight America's
battles, and scores of sleek white fiberglass pleasure boats. There are
tiny restaurants tucked into rosy brick town houses on Beacon Hill and
huge restaurants on the dizzying tops of skyscrapers in the downtown. Food
ranges from the most radical of nouvelle chic to downhome Cajun. Boston
is a diverse modern city of neighborhoods.
From the North End to Bay Village,
Back Bay to the South End, Jamaica Plain to Charlestown, the city shows
its diversity of populations, of languages, of foods and philosophies.
Immigrants from every corner of the globe have been welcomed by the city
and re-shaped into Americans whose memories and customs enrich the community.
Boston is a city where politics is everyone's hobby but sports are taken
very seriously; where you can hear six different languages in Filene's
Basement in one morning; where the world's largest record store and the
stately dome of the Mother Church of Christian Science are in the same
neighborhood, and where gilded stone lions and a towering 60-story wedge
of glass comfortably rub shoulders.
Boston Massachusetts is located Eastern
Massachusetts, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the east; Cambridge, Somerville,
Everett, Chelsea, Watertown, and Revere on the north; Brookline, Newton,
and Needham on the west; Dedham on the southwest; and Canton, Milton, and
Quincy on the south. |