When in Boston: A Time Line & Almanac

by Jim Vrabel, Thomas H. O'Connor (Contributor)

This chronicle of Boston over the centuries provides a descriptive history of the city organized as a time line. Jim Vrabel delves into significant, entertaining, and unusual events in Boston history, in categories ranging from population, planning, and development, to politics, religion, and social change, to education, the arts, and sports.

Genres: Reference, History

320 pages, Paperback

First published December 23, 2004

Reviews

[Aaron · Rating 5 out of 5]

A thorough, straight-forward, and entertaining chronicle/almanac of Boston, MA. I saw him give a presentation at the Boston Public Library (Copley) where he said he had three times as much material as what eventually went to print; this was very well researched. Also, he said the last history of Boston was published, if I remember correctly, around the 1870s.

Great as a reference book or as coffee table reading.