Recalling how old timers would affirm that… as you age, time flies by more rapidly with each passing year. How right they were. The year of 2018 now sits in the rearview mirror while improved technology eliminates many of life’s…
Author: Richard Rouse
What’s Happening on Main Streets
O Come all ye faithful, joyfully and triumphantly, to do your holiday shopping in a local Main Street district. My goal this year is to make over 90 percent of my gift purchases from Boston neighborhood businesses and I’m determined…
What’s Happening on Main Streets
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the armistice was declared ending the Great War 100 years ago. We celebrate this occasion as Veterans Day. To all who have worn the uniform…Thank you for serving…
What’s Happening on Main Streets
How apt the trite observation, often attributed to Bismarck, about how unappetizing the creation of sausages and legislation can be. Did you watch “the world’s greatest deliberative body” advising and consenting to the Kavanaugh nomination? Among the multitude of unsavory…
What’s Happening on Main Streets
Mission Hill’s version of the Normandy Landing called Move-in Day benefits greatly when the first of September falls on a Saturday. Municipal officials, college representatives, and landlords work together to pre-plan and organize the onslaught as best they can. Police…
What’s Happening on Main Streets
Papa’s a hit! I’m not referring to Ernest Hemingway or Goldilocks’ friend. I’m talking about the restaurant run by Konstantine Papadopoulos called Papa’s Pizza Company at 682 Huntington Ave. which opened last month. Located next door to The Squealing Pig…
What’s Happening on Main Streets
(A timely observation) “I believe mankind longs for freedom from, and rumors of, war.” Sixty-three years ago this month at the Geneva Conference, President Eisenhower spoke of this craving at the Palais des Nations, which was once the site of…
What’s Happening on Main Streets
What a vivid time of year this is! Flowers abloom, graduates adorned in academic regalia strolling with their proud families, iridescent sunsets, Old Glory flapping in the breeze… Mission Hill suffuses color at this time of year and the boys…
What’s Happening on Main Streets
Boston’s oldest continuous crime watch attracts those who love and care for our community and our generous Main Street businesses fashioned a feast for the Mission Hill Crime Committee’s annual party on April 26. Eateries donating edibles and gift cards…
What’s Happening on Main Streets
While sitting at my laptop, a Beatles song lyric repeats in my head… “Doing the garden, diggin’ the weeds, who could ask for more? Will you still need me? Will you still feed me? When I’m 64?” Paul McCartney was…