spent his political career in various appointive offices — elections commissioner and fire commissioner — as the backroom boss of Boston's Ward Two, and as a member of his party's unofficial Board of Strategy.

Some of the better known graduates of South Boston's Saturday night weekly events include Jeff Burton, Ward Burton, Elliott Sadler, Stacy Compton, and the Bodine brothers ( Todd, Geoff and Brett ).

Boston's Handel and Haydn Society aimed at raising the level of church music in America, publishing their " Collection of Church Music ".

In 1815, Boston's Handel and Haydn Society was founded, in 1842 the New York Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic were formed, and in 1858, the Hallé Orchestra was formed in Manchester.

It is located, along with the Mary Baker Eddy Library, in the Publishing Society building at the Christian Science Center in Boston's Back Bay.

In 1816 Park Street Church joined with Old South Church to form the City Mission Society, a social service society to serve Boston's urban poor.

* Tourangeau, Richard Dixie: " Remembering the Congress Street Grounds: Boston's Ball Yard of Champions from Rebel Origin to Final Clutch Swing " in The National Pastime magazine, 2004 issue, published by the Society for Americal Baseball Research.

A photo of Boston's stained-glass Mapparium adorns the cover of Challenge For A Civilized Society.

Affiliated with the Boston Port Society, the women of the Seaman's Aid Society operated a clothing store ; Mariners House, a hotel for seamen ; and a free school for mariner's daughters in Boston's North Square.

William Emerson ( May 6, 1770 – May 12, 1811 ) was one of Boston's leading citizens, a liberal-minded Unitarian minister, pastor to Boston's First Church and founder of its Philosophical Society, Anthology Club, and Boston Athenaeum, and father to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

In 1816 Old South Church joined with Park Street Church to form the City Mission Society, a social justice society to serve Boston's urban poor.

Boston's Logan International Airport from the airside lounge of Terminal E, illustrating how the airport is largely surrounded by water.

To combat this downturn, Boston's politicians enacted urban renewal policies, which resulted in the demolition of several neighborhoods, including the old West End, a largely Jewish and Italian neighborhood, and Scollay Square.

It largely simulcasts Boston's Univision affiliate, WUNI, and operates a secondary feed, targeted to Springfield, Massachusetts, on its second digital subchannel ( this service is also carried by Springfield-area cable systems ).

Since then, WUVN has largely been a semi-satellite of Boston's WUNI.

His efforts to attract other Jesuits to the faculty were hampered both by Boston's distance from the center of Jesuit activity in Maryland and by suspicion on the part of the city's Protestant elite.

The health seminar that inspired the booklet was organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College.

In May 1854 the capture of the slave Anthony Burns stirred a fierce reaction among Boston's abolitionists and may have inspired Tappan to take personal action following passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Clearances for I-95 through the neighborhoods of Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, and Roslindale led to secession threats by Hyde Park, Boston's youngest and southernmost neighborhood.

In addition to winning the 1966 MVP, Robinson also won the Triple Crown ( leading the American League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in ), a feat also achieved the following season by Boston's Carl Yastrzemski but never since.

The sellout streak set a Major League Baseball record ; this was broken by the Boston Red Sox on September 8, 2008, though Boston's Fenway Park is considerably smaller than Progressive Field.

Commuter rail service from Boston's South Station is provided by the MBTA with stops at Endicott and

A favorite target of Poe's criticism was Boston's then acclaimed poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was often defended by his literary friends in what would later be called " The Longfellow War ".

They came within one strike of losing the World Series against the Boston Red Sox before a series of hits and defensive miscues ultimately led to an error by Boston's Bill Buckner which gave the Mets a Game 6 victory.

As American alternative bands like Sonic Youth, which had grown out of the No Wave scene, and Boston's Pixies started to gain larger audiences, major labels sought to capitalize on the underground market that had been sustained by hardcore punk for years.

Other contemporary sculptures in which fog is used as a medium of expression are: Harbor Fog, a viewer responsive artwork in the parkland above Boston's Big Dig highway ; Cloud RIngs ( 2006 ) by Ned Kahn at the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky ; and the interactive landscape of Dillworth Plaza at Philadelphia City Hall ( completion date 2013 ).

Completed in 1976, the Faneuil Hall Marketplace ( comprising Quincy Market and other spaces adjacent to Boston's Faneuil Hall ) was designed by architect Benjamin C. Thompson and was a financial success, an act of historic preservation, and an anchor for urban revitalization.

Much of Boston's trade at this time was in wool, and Boston is said by the locals to have been built on it.

It was founded by astronomer Percival Lowell, and run for a time by his third cousin Guy Lowell of Boston's well-known Lowell family.

Referred to as the " Feast of All Feasts ", Saint Anthony's Feast in Boston's North End was begun in 1919 by Italian immigrants from Montefalcione, a small town near Naples, where the tradition of honoring Saint Anthony goes back to 1688.

UMass Boston's undergraduates are represented by the Undergraduate Student Government, which consists of the Undergraduate Student Senate, the executive office of the USG President, and the office of the USG Chief Justice.

UMass Boston's graduate students are represented by the Graduate Student Assembly.

UMass Boston's graduate student employees ( teaching assistants, research assistants, and administrative assistants ) are represented by the Graduate Employee Organization / UAW Local 1596 — UMass Boston Chapter.

Industrial buildings that were formerly vacant have been converted into loft spaces by real estate developers, and bought by young home-buyers who seek the urban lifestyle of Boston proper, but can't afford the higher prices of Boston's South End and similar neighborhoods.

The town is served by a stop along the Newburyport / Rockport Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail, providing service from Rockport along the North Shore to Boston's North Station.

Commuter rail service from Boston's North Station is provided by the MBTA with a stop in Lincoln on its Fitchburg Line.

Boston's Logan International Airport is accessible via MBTA Red Line connections at South Station, directly on the MBTA commuter boat ( see below ) or by motor vehicle using Interstate 93 or surface roads to the Ted Williams Tunnel.

* Commuter rail service from Boston's South Station is provided by the MBTA with the Route 128 station on its Providence / Stoughton Line, and the Islington station on its Franklin Line

Philadelphia obtained a hand-pumped fire engine in 1719, years after Boston's 1654 model appeared there, made by Joseph Jencks, but before New York's two engines arrived from London.

Things changed when Boston's biggest DJ, Arnie Ginsburg, was given the record by a pitchman.

Each year on the weekend of the last Sunday in August, Boston's North End holds a feast in honor of Saint Anthony.

* Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell, Boston's South End, Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, February 1, 1998.

* Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell, " Boston's Harbor Islands ", Images of America series, 1998.

At some universities, the Order of St. Anthony maintains a chapter house colloquially referred to as " The Hall " or " St. A's ", although at MIT, the society is known as " The Number Six Club " in reference to that chapter's original founding and residence at No. 6 Louisburg Square in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood.

* Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell ; Price, Michael, Boston's immigrants, 1840-1925, Arcadia Publishing, Images of America series, 2000