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HUB History – Our Favorite Stories from Boston History — Places & Travel
HUB History – Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

Where two history buffs go far beyond the Freedom Trail to share our favorite stories from the history of Boston, the hub of the universe.

Latest Episodes:

Ep44: Perambulating the Bounds (Sep 4, 2017) Sep 03, 2017
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Since 1651, Boston has had a legal responsibility to mark and measure its boundaries every few years. Despite advances in technology, the practice of “perambulating the bounds” means that someone has to go out and walk the town lines. This law is one of the oldest still on the books, but when was the last time Boston perambulated its bounds?

Show notes: HUBhistory.com/044

Ep43: The Case of the Somnambulist (Aug 28, 2017) Aug 28, 2017
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When young Albert Tirrell killed his lover Maria Bickford on Beacon Hill, it sparked a scandal that rocked Victorian Boston in the 1840s. It was a tale of seduction, murder, and the unlikeliest of defenses. In the end, he would be found not guilty, in the first successful use of sleepwalking as a defense against murder.

We apologize for Nikki’s head cold, some rough cuts that resulted from editing out her sniffles, and the couple of sniffles that made it into the final cut.

Show notes: HUBhistory.com/043

Ep42: Boston's Total Eclipse of the Podcast Aug 20, 2017
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Your humble hosts are traveling this week, trying to see the first total eclipse of our lifetimes. While we’re gone, listen to the story of the 1806 eclipse, the first total eclipse seen in Boston after European colonization.

Show notes: HUBhistory.com/042

Ep41: Canoes and Canoodling on the Charles River (Aug 14, 2017) Aug 13, 2017
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During a late nineteenth century canoe craze, recreational canoeing became Boston’s hottest leisure time activity. Young lovers took advantage of the privacy and intimacy of a canoe to engage in a little bit of illicit romance, leading a humorless state police agency to ban kissing in canoes on the Charles River.

Show notes: HUBhistory.com/041

Ep40: Banned in Boston! (Aug 7, 2017) Aug 07, 2017
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Despite our liberal reputation today, for years Boston was a bastion of official censorship. Authors and playwrights whose works were considered obscene had to create a watered-down “Boston version.” The Watch and Ward Society decided what art, theater, and literature was permissible, and what would be Banned in Boston!

Show notes: HUBhistory.com/040

Episode 39: Tragedy at Cocoanut Grove (Jul 31, 2017) Jul 31, 2017
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The 1942 fire at Boston’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub killed a staggering 492 people, making it the deadliest fire in Boston history and one of the deadliest fires in US history. For Boston, it is the deadliest modern disaster of any type. Only the smallpox epidemics of the early 1700s and the 1918 Spanish flu rival it for loss of life.

Show notes: HUBhistory.com/039

Episode 38: The Reign of Charles "King" Solomon (Jul 24, 2017) Jul 23, 2017
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This week’s show is about Charles “King” Solomon, also known as Boston Charlie, whose criminal enterprise placed him at the head of organized crime in Boston throughout the prohibition era. He reached influence at the national level, set policies in play that led to tragedy at the Cocoanut Grove, and in death, left a wake that may have led to the rise of Whitey Bulger.

Show notes: HUBhistory.com/038

Episode 37: This Week in Boston History (minisode Jul 17, 2017) Jul 17, 2017
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Your humble hosts are out having summertime fun this week. Don’t worry, though… Jake is flying solo this week, and bringing you this week’s historical anniversaries. We’ll be back next week with a real episode.

Show notes: HUBhistory.com/037

Episode 36: Boston in the Golden Age of Piracy, Part 2 (Jul 10, 2017) Jul 10, 2017
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In this episode, we continue our tale of Boston in the Golden Age of Piracy, picking up at the end of the War of The Spanish Succession. We’ll learn about some of the most fearsome and notorious pirates in history, as well as one of the most ineffective. We’ll see how one of these pirates gave a founding father his start in public life, which US president’s great grandfather bought a former pirate as a slave, and what other president’s great grandfather decapitated a pirate with an axe.

Show notes: HUBhistory.com/036

Episode 35: The Boston Symphony Orchestra in World War I (Jul 3, 2017) Jul 02, 2017
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With a partial “Muslim Ban” in place, it’s important to remember that vilifying “enemy aliens” is one of the darkest chapters of our nation’s history. A hundred years ago, Americans were all too willing to imprison or even deport their neighbors of German descent. Here in Boston, the preeminent director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was affected, along with almost a third of the orchestra’s musicians.

Show notes: HUBhistory.com/035

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