The Handy Boston Answer Book. Samuel Willard Crompton

       Turn of the Century

       Ethnic Realities

       THE BOSTON MARATHON

       The Beginnings

       Tarzan

       The Great Boom

       Women in the Marathon

       The 1980 Debacle

       Financial Crisis

       The Women’s and Wheelchair Races

       The Bombings

       THE RED SOX

       The Lowest Decade

       The Yawkey Era

       The Williams Era

       The Yastrzemski Era

       The Season of 1978

       The Post-1978 Slump

       The World Series of 1986

       Close But No Cigar

       The New Millennium

       Road to the Championship

       Redemption Achieved

       OTHER GREAT BOSTON SPORTS

       The Celtics

       New England Patriots

       The Boston Bruins

       POLITICAL DYNASTIES AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

       Colonial and Revolutionary Politics

       The Era of Good Feelings

       The Fitzgeralds

       The Kennedys

       President Kennedy

       The Kennedy Senators

       All Politics Is Local

       Governor Dukakis

       Senator Kerry

       Governor Romney

       The Bulgers

       COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

       Harvard

       Harvard in Transition

       MIT

       Boston College and Boston University

       Other Schools

       Lesser-Known Schools

       MUSIC, RADIO, AND MUSEUMS

       Fiedler and the Boston Pops

       Folk and Rock Music

       Museums, Libraries, and Archives

       BOSTON IN MOVIES AND TELEVISION

       Boston on TV and in the Movies

       STREETS, SQUARES, AND NEIGHBORHOODS

       Squares

       Neighborhoods

       HOSPITALS, LIBRARIES, AND THE BUILDING BOOM

       How Boston Became a “Medical Town”

       The Building Boom

       UNIQUE BOSTON

       The Weather

       Generation Shift

       PROMINENT BOSTONIANS

       Rugged Individuals

       Men and Women of Action

       The Artists

       BOSTON TRIVIA AND THE BOSTON ACCENT

       Colloquialisms

       Trivia

       APPENDIX: MAJORS OF BOSTON