Susan Cole Kelly is a Boston-based photographer and regular contributor to Yankee Magazine and YankeeMagazine.com. She captured the Boston Marathon memorial on Boylston Street in a series of photographs and shares her feelings on how the memorial has affected her and the Boston community. See more of her photographs of Boston at kellypix.com. [slideshow post_id=”423603″] […]
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Note: JD Hale, Yankee Publishing Vice-President, is the great nephew of Yankee Magazine’s founder, Robb Sagendorph. Until last Monday I had not been to the finish of the Boston Marathon since I ran it in 1986. I was a rookie BAA volunteer in my yellow Adidas jacket along with my friend Bill Goodwin and wife, […]
I live in Brookline, Massachusetts, which puts me about 3 miles from the site of this week’s Boston Marathon bombing. We were nowhere near the finish line at the time, having opted to head to Sturbridge Village for the day. But it’s impossible to live in or near the city right now without feeling rattled. […]
Bill Rodgers knows marathons. In the 1970s and early 1980s, no other runner dominated the sport as he did. He won both the Boston and New York City races four times and became the first American marathoner to break the 2:10 mark. These days, Rodgers, 65, is still running (it’s half-marathons these days)and still spreading […]
Desserts
Dr. Boylston’s Honeycomb Pudding
Boylston Street is one of Boston’s main thoroughfares, the final leg of the Boston Marathon and home to the Boston Public Library. Its name pays honor to Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, who braved the threat of mob violence in 1721 in order to get Bostonians inoculated against smallpox. In doing so, he introduced the lifesaving technique […]
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New England by the Numbers | Stats
8 the late Red Auerbach’s ranking in CIGAR AFICIONADO’s list of “The Top 100 Cigar Smokers of the Twentieth Century.” The cigar of choice for the legendary Boston Celtics coach: Hoyo de Monterrey. Winston Churchill ranked number 1; JFK and Fidel Castro, 2 and 3, respectively. 62,336 major league baseball games analyzed by Northeastern University […]
2:55:10 John J. McDermott’s winning time in the first Boston Marathon, 1897 2:05:52 Kenyan Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot’s record-setting winning time in 2010 11,279 official field of women runners in 2010, the most in Boston Marathon historyGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) 1972 year that women were first allowed to officially run […]
History
New England Numbers: Spring
98.5 percentage of 20,646 starting runners who crossed the finish line at the 2007 Boston Marathon 414 pairs of nesting bald eagles counted in Maine in 2006, up from 21 pairs in 1967 $1,103 World Series share per player for the 1918 champion Boston Red SoxGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) […]
Patricia Franchi Flaherty Founder, Ovations for the Cure Natick, Massachusetts Every woman knows new shoes are a powerful kind of therapy. “They’re good medicine,” says Patti Franchi Flaherty. Her feet sparkle in a pair of mesh jelly flats, Stuart Weitzman originals. Thanks to Patti’s foundation, Ovations for the Cure, every ovarian cancer patient gets a […]