Roving UHub photographer Ray Ausrotas spotted Boston's musical bear outside Faneuil Hall yesterday. Sam Adams, as usual, was unimpressed.
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Faneuil Hall
By adamg - 10/25/23 - 3:03 pm
The Boston City Council today approved a resolution that calls on the city to change the name of Faneuil Hall because Peter Fanueil was a slave owner. Read more.
By adamg - 8/24/23 - 9:15 pm
Boston Eater rips the shell off this tale: Two visitors up from Houston, where they eat crawfish on purpose, ordered a cold lobster salad roll at Boston & Maine Fish Company and realized "what they were eating was not the rich, meaty flavor of an oceanic bug, but rather the lighter, more rubbery flavor of a mudbug."
By adamg - 6/25/20 - 3:38 pm
Mayor Walsh said today he opposes an effort to change Faneuil Hall's name just because Peter Faneuil owned slaves and was active in both the direct slave trade and the Triangular Trade that helped finance the purchase of yet more slaves. Read more.
By adamg - 6/23/20 - 9:33 am
Greg Cook reports on Kevin Peterson's fast to have the historic hall get renamed for somebody other than a slave owner.
By adamg - 12/11/19 - 9:00 am
MattGrobo worked an overnight shift and reports that when he got to work last night, it was 55 degrees.
By adamg - 5/7/19 - 11:59 am
The historic hall is wrapped up in blue protective netting for some exterior renovation work.
By adamg - 2/13/19 - 11:53 pm
Photographynatalia walked around Faneuil Hall and Haymarket last night after the snow came down.
Copyright Photographynatalia. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 10/15/16 - 10:55 am
J.L. Bell recounts Adams's trip up from Quincy in 1818 to see Trumbull's now famous painting of the Continental Congress.
By adamg - 8/27/16 - 10:55 pm
Dan Meade reports he was in front of Faneuil Hall around 6:45 p.m. today when a large group of motorcycles came roaring up:
They came down Devonshire, held up traffic at the crossing at Congress to keep the pack together, and then about 100 motorcycles stopped in front of Fanueil Hall and smokescreened the whole block.
Copyright Dan Meade. Posted in the Universal Hub pool.
By adamg - 2/16/16 - 3:42 pm
The City of Boston Archaeology Program put together this animation showing changes in the land and water around Fanueil Hall over 400 years.
By adamg - 11/25/15 - 8:39 am
Back in the day, the first floor of Faneuil Hall was the place where Bostonians could buy fresh meat and poultry. In 1952, Leslie Jones captured the scene when Mr. Kelley, of Thresher & Kelley Market, showed off his Thanksgiving turkeys to a mother and her kids.
From the BPL's Leslie Jones collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
By adamg - 10/21/15 - 2:40 pm
E-mail complaint to the mayor's office that helped spur LaMattina into action
With additional reporting by Kayla Canne.
City Councilor Sal LaMattina says he enjoys street performers. But faced with complaints about "bullying" from the amplifier-enhanced dancers in front of Faneuil Hall - from both tourists and other performers - he says it's time for Boston to consider some sort of busker regulations. Read more.
By adamg - 5/23/15 - 4:08 pm
First responders from across the country slowly filed into Faneuil Hall today to remember emergency medical workers who died in the line of duty over the past year. Read more.
By adamg - 11/2/14 - 12:02 pm
Road Trip New England captured people waiting by the statue of Mayor White for their turn to pay their final respects to Mayor Menino inside Faneuil Hall this morning. Faneuil Hall will remain open until there are no more people left.
By adamg - 10/31/14 - 4:45 pm
Boston Magazine reports on the arrests following a vicious attack outside Faneuil Hall earlier this week.
By adamg - 10/30/14 - 9:52 pm
Starting at 10 a.m., according to his family. The mayor's office in City Hall overlooks Faneuil Hall.
A funeral mass the next day at Most Precious Blood Parish in Hyde Park will be private.
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