Today’s Haymarket began as an expansion of Quincy Market in the 1830s and has since witnessed enormous changes in streetscape and demographics. Through it all, the district has served a constant stream of longtime residents, immigrant families, students and tourists. For much of the 1900s, Italian produce vendors’ pushcarts lined both sides of Blackstone Street. […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.