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Take a ride on a Swan Boat
Boston College alumna Frances Driscoll, a former teacher in the Boston Public Schools, has published The Swan Boat Ride, which tells the story of a young girl’s ride with her grandmother on the Swan Boats in Boston’s Public Garden. It … Continue reading
Looking at Boston Strong
A new book has been published by the Boston College Presidential Scholars Class of 2016 that examines what makes Boston Strong – and what is needed to make it stronger. The Heart of This City: Boston Strong and Becoming Stronger … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston, Boston Marathon, homelessness, Presidential Scholars, social justice
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Poe Returns to Boston
A sculpture of Edgar Allan Poe will be unveiled in Boston on October 5, thanks to the efforts of the Poe Foundation, chaired by Boston College English Professor Paul Lewis. The sculpture, titled Poe Returning to Boston and created by Stefanie Rocknak, will be installed at the … Continue reading
Intercollegiate Poetry Festival
Betsy Sholl, Maine’s poet laureate from 2006 to 2011, will be the keynote speaker at the annual Greater Boston Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Festival taking place at Boston College on Apr. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Yawkey Center. Sholl is the author of … Continue reading
Hangout with Boston Strong author
BC alumnus Dave Wedge, an investigative journalist and author of the forthcoming book Boston Strong, will participate in a Google hangout today from 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Wedge’s book, co-written with New York Times best-selling author Casey Sherman, is a compelling, dramatic non-fiction account … Continue reading
The Boston Strangler case, 50 years later
The Boston Strangler case is back in the headlines with the news that DNA from the 1964 murder case of Mary Sullivan has been definitively linked to Albert DeSalvo, who had confessed to the crimes but was never convicted. Boston … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston, History Department, murder case, serial killer
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Literary Boston in 1860
Brenda Wineapple, the author of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, will discuss On the Brink of War – Literary Boston in 1860 on Apr. 11 at 7 p.m. in Devlin 101. White Heat was … Continue reading
Book review from historian Tom O’Connor
Author and University Historian Thomas H. O’Connor, often described as “the dean of Boston historians,” offers a review of a new book on Boston political history by Gerard O’Neill, a retired veteran political and investigative journalist. O’Connor calls O’Neill’s Rogues … Continue reading
Murder mystery in Charlestown
Boston College alumnus Tom MacDonald has published The Charlestown Connection, which tells the story of Dermot Sparhawk, a former all-American football star at Boston College, who takes to the streets of Boston to solve his godfather’s murder. MacDonald says he … Continue reading
Legal thriller Black Diamond
Black Diamond, a legal thriller set in Boston against the backdrop of the high-stakes horse racing world, is the third novel by Boston College Law School alumnus John F. Dobbyn ’65. It centers on two lawyers who agree to defend … Continue reading
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