Suzanne Besser, who has served as our Executive Director for ten years, will be leaving the association in June, and a search committee has been formed to find her replacement. The committee has posted the position on Idealist.org and Craigslist. A job description can be found on www.bhcivic.org. Interested candidates may email résumés by...
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Beacon Hill Civic Association Celebrates 40th Winter Dance and Its 90th Year
The Beacon Hill Civic Association’s 40th Annual Winter Dance was a great success. This year’s theme, “All That Glitters,” was appropriately played out at the Four Seasons Hotel, where guests enjoyed an evening among neighbors and friends with dinner, dessert, with many toasts shared and dancing. The Winter Dance’s 40 years is exceeded by...
The Hingham Savings Bank
The Hingham Savings Bank Beacon Hill banking branch office at 80 Beacon Street has announced the opening of more than 250 accounts since opening on October 18. As of the second week of January Beacon Hill branch deposits totaled more than $30 million, according to officials of the bank. News of the bank’s great...
Police Briefs 02-07-2012
Breaking and Entering – Residence 01/27/12 – An Anderson Place resident reported an unknown male suspect entered his bedroom at around 7:55 a.m. before fleeing the building with the victim’s laptop. The victim believes the front door of the apartment might have been unlocked. Incidents Jan. 24 1 Cambridge St. – Motor Vehicle Accident...
Athenaeum Receives $2m Grant for Curatorship of Rare Books
Anne C. and David J. Bromer have made an important gift of $2 million to endow the Anne C. and David J. Bromer Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Boston Athenaeum, the Athenæum announced. The Bromers are the proprietors of Bromer Booksellers, specializing in aesthetically significant rare books, located in Copley Square...
In Memoriam
Mayor Kevin White’s death is a moment for all of us to remember him and the days when he managed this city with an iron fist. He was above all, a real Bostonian with his early roots in West Roxbury and his adult life spent on Beacon Hill. He loved Boston. He loved downtown...
Police Briefs 01-31-2012
Larceny/Shoplifting 01/17/12 – A Charles Street liquor-store manager reported observing a known male suspect placing a bottle of vodka down his pants before leaving the store at around 9:30 p.m. Detectives were scheduled to review surveillance-camera footage. Breaking and Entering – Residence 01/20/12 – A Myrtle Street resident reported that the front door of...
New Book Shows Nichols’ Family Ahead of its Time
June Hutchinson’s “At Home on Beacon Hill: Rose Standish Nichols and Her Family” tells the story of a typical upper class family living on Beacon Hill during the Gilded Age, but the family is anything but ordinary. “What is so fascinating is how forward-leaning the Nichols parents were,” Hutchinson said. “They gave their daughters...
Downtown View: If I were Mayor
Several months ago this column featured some readers’ descriptions of what they would do if they were mayor of Boston. As you might imagine, I too have a few ideas about managing the city. Here are some things I’d do if I were mayor: • I’d plant Boston ivy to grow over selected sections...
New Digs
FOPG new office to be at 69 Beacon St. Patti Quinn, vice president of The Friends of the Public Garden, the 41-year-old citizens organization that works to preserve and enhance the Boston Common, the Public Garden and the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, recently announced its office will move from 87 Mount Vernon St., where it...