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Saturday, January 11, 2014

Lecture: Boston's Orange Line


If you're like me, you can't get enough of old photos of Boston's subway system. To satiate that need, come to a lecture by Jeremy Fox and Andrew Elder about their new book, Boston's Orange Line, January 26, 2014 at 3pm.

Learn all about what older folks used to call "the scary line" from its beginning in 1901 as a private line to the present as a public one, and either celebrate its move from elevated to underground like a normal person, or mourn the loss of the creepy subway underpasses like me.

Better still, the lecture is being held at Doyle's, 3484 Washington St., Jamaica Plain (a short walk from the Orange Line's Green Street stop). This bar is in itself a historic site, seeped with history of the Boston Irish, prohibition, and municipal politics.

This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Jamaica Plain Historical Society. Cash bar.

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Join local history buffs for Roslindale Origins talk January 23


Join local history buffs and former Roslindale Main Streets directors Carter Wilkie and Josef Porteleki at the Boston Public Library's Roslindale Branch on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 7pm for a discussion about the origins of the Roslindale neighborhood. This "armchair tour" will explore the neighborhood's landscape and its precarious connection to Roslin, Scotland.

This event is free and open to the public. Roslindale Branch Library, 4246 Washington St., Roslindale, MA.

Presented by the Friends of the Roslindale Branch Library and the Jamaica Plain Historical Society.