85282 AALL Spectrum.apr 3/26/04 12:00 PM Page 18

Pack Good Walking Shoes Boston is an eminently walkable city. In fact, you can span the main part of it during a leisurely stroll. This is perhaps the best way to see the sights up close and in a relaxed fashion. If you were to consider the city a hub, like Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. did, imagine the center of the hub being the convention center. (There actually is a plaque embedded in the pavement in a downtown location depicting the true center, but for convenience purposes we’ll assume the convention center as the starting point). Get familiar with the points of the compass, and follow along. You’ll only need a few hours in any direction to discover a world of intrigue and interest.

Credits: FayFoto/Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau/BostonUSA.com Bureau/BostonUSA.com Visitors & Boston Convention FayFoto/Greater Credits: Go West Walk over the Harvard Bridge (on Massachusetts Avenue) A few blocks to the west on Commonwealth to get a sweeping view of Boston’s skyline, as well as an he 97th AALL Annual Meeting and up-close gander at the only bridge measured in smoots. Avenue is the area known as Kenmore Conference, “Boston to Mumbai— Square, home to nightclubs, restaurants, T The World of Legal Information,” thousands of Boston University students will be held on July 10-14 in the John B. (when classes are in session), and a baseball Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention club called the Red Sox. Left off Center, located in Boston’s historic Back Bay Commonwealth and down Brookline neighborhood. While the convention offers Avenue a bit sits a world of legal venerable Fenway Park, information, Boston the location of the Curse, in the summer offers the Impossible Dream, a world of adventure. Duffy’s Cliff, Pesky’s Boston on Foot Boston is, after Pole, and the Green all, considered the Monster, to name a few. “Hub of the Planning to come Explore Boston’s Universe,” and early? The Sox have a radiating in all home stand July 6–11, Historic and Cultural directions are links playing Oakland and Treasures with Simply to historic and Texas. If you order picturesque sights tickets ahead or show up Your Own Two Feet both near and far. alone or in pairs, you’ll For those convention probably get in. You can by John Pedini attendees who want experience the oldest some brief and Major League ballpark— casual diversions, we visit a place where guys have assembled the like Cy, Yaz, Teddy following suggestions Ballgame, and Pudge for your enjoyment, played and check out the beginning with places Green Monster, a 37- within walking foot-tall left field wall

distance. In next Bureau/BostonUSA.com Visitors & Boston Convention FayFoto/Greater Creidts: (now crowned with month’s Spectrum, The famous and popular Faneuil Hall Marketplace seats). If you can’t get we will feature longer (now called Quincy Market), with its busy warrens into a game, tours are excursions by train or car. of charming food stalls, restaurants, and boutique shops, offers live performances of all kinds every day available 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you want a more around noon. and come highly organized experience, you recommended. may want to investigate the “Tours and Excursions” section of the Go South convention program. But for those of you What’s that you say, baseball’s not your style? who love to explore on your own, read on. Head due south of the convention center Where available, Web sites to the attractions and you will walk right into the Mother mentioned are listed on page 20. Church, the world headquarters of the First

18 AALL Spectrum Magazine April 2004 © 2004 John Pedini 85282 AALL Spectrum.apr 3/26/04 12:00 PM Page 19

Church of Christ, Scientist. Outside the district—eight blocks of international up-close gander at the only bridge measured main buildings is a giant reflecting pool fashion, fine dining, art galleries, obscure in smoots. and fountains. Inside is the world-famous artifacts, antiques, and jewelry, as well as On the other side of the Charles is Mapparium, a three-story stained glass Avenue Victor Hugo, a landmark bookstore the campus of the Massachusetts Institute globe that has the map of the world as it specializing in rare and used books. Besides of Technology and the geographical was in 1935. Visitors can walk through the shopping and dining experience, you beginning of the “People’s Republic” of the globe and marvel at its amazing visual can enjoy the architecture of the brownstone Cambridge. If you’re feeling adventurous, and acoustical properties (sounds are rowhouses and classic late-19th century a 15-minute walk north on Massachusetts exaggerated in the glass sphere—a whisper buildings. Avenue will bring you through the heart can be heard from several yards away). Stepping a few blocks north, you’ll of that city and into Harvard Square Head west along Huntington Avenue reach the grande dame of Boston walkways, with an ever-changing array of shops and (past Symphony Hall and the Huntington the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. From restaurants, as well as the storied campus Theater), and you come upon the two the imperious likeness of Leif Eriksson of Harvard University. inspiring cultural gems of the area, the (complete with runic inscriptions) gazing Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella west at the Charlesgate end, to a galloping Go East Stewart Gardner Museum, the latter with George Washington at the entrance to the To get outside and begin a proper walking its enchanting courtyard. Behind the Public Gardens, the mall is dotted with tour eastward, start at the main entrance to Gardner is Simmons College where many statues of prominent figures in Boston’s the convention center on Boylston Street. a law librarian got his or her degree. Across history. Leif Eriksson?—it’s a long story. This broad, busy street can take you all from Simmons is a modest expanse of The mall is a fine way to traverse the way into Chinatown and the Theater water, grass, and woods called the Fens. the breadth of one of Boston’s most District. Along the way there are many attractions, fine and funky restaurants, all types of shopping, and the hustle and bustle of people going about their business. The first encounter of note along Boylston Street is the Boston Public Library, with its modern entrance to the General Library (Johnson building) and the adjoining Research Library (the classic renaissance revivalist McKim building). Library management encourages first-time visitors to enter the General Library and familiarize themselves with the floor plan and the collection. Then one can travel by way of an interior courtyard to the older building and marvel at its beauty and many exhibit rooms. Swan Boats and Cobblestones Due east of Copley Square, along Boylston Street, is the beginning of the Boston Public Garden, with its trademark swan boats drifting lazily along an idyllic pond Creidts: FayFoto/Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau/BostonUSA.com Bureau/BostonUSA.com Visitors & Boston Convention FayFoto/Greater Creidts: ringed by giant weeping willows and Due east of Copley Square, along Boylston Street, is the beginning of the Boston Public Garden, with its trademark swan boats ornamental flower beds. Not too grand drifting lazily along an idyllic pond ringed by giant weeping willows and ornamental flower beds. or elaborate, the Public Garden allows sweeping views and intimate peeks, whether On a warm summer day, one could enjoy distinguished residential sections, view you see the skyline from behind the mighty lingering in this tranquil part of town. exquisite architecture, and even get a chance trees or find squirrels and ducks who For more excitement, walk back to to experience Boston’s only attempt at urban have trained humans to feed them. Symphony Hall, continue south down planning—alphabetically named streets in a Next to the Public Garden is the Boston Massachusetts Avenue, and you’ll find predetermined grid pattern! Common, a more utilitarian stretch of yourself in the beginning of Boston’s South If you want to get a good river view, green that since 1634 has served as a public End, a vibrant neighborhood featuring the walk another three blocks north to the cattle-grazing area; a location for public largest collection of bowfront rowhouses in Charles River, whose grassy banks include executions, parades, militia drills, and the United States, as well as many intimate bike and jogging paths, playgrounds, anti-war demonstrations; and even hosted a galleries, nightclubs, and modern eateries. and the world-famous Hatch Shell, the visit from Pope John Paul II. The Common scene of the Fourth of July Boston Pops includes a frog pond that doubles as an ice Go North extravaganza. Go the other way and rink in winter, a large playground, and a Taking a northerly tack from the you can walk over the Harvard Bridge Visitor’s Information Center. This is a place convention center brings you immediately (Massachusetts Avenue) and get a sweeping to discover more historic attractions and into the Newbury Street shopping view of Boston’s skyline, as well as an find out where the Freedom Trail begins.

AALL Spectrum Magazine April 2004 19 85282 AALL Spectrum.apr 3/26/04 12:00 PM Page 20

Just north of the Common begins the with its busy warrens of charming food venerable neighborhood of Beacon Hill, stalls, restaurants, and boutique shops, Explore Online a landmark once nearly three times its offers live performances of all kinds every Visit these Web sites to learn original size until much of the land was day around 12 p.m. More as a landscape more about the attractions listed excavated for landfill. Still, it is the site of than a destination, the brand-new, cable- in “Boston on Foot.” many splendid and majestic homes as well stayed Leonard P. Zakim/Bunker Hill as quaint and cozy little apartments. Some Bridge spans the entrance to the Charles The City of Boston of the side streets, the most famous being River to the north, sporting its Bunker Hill www.aviewoncities.com/boston Acorn Street, are still in cobblestone form, Monument-style obelisks in an inverted www.boston.gov lit by authentic gas lamps. “Y” configuration. At dusk it shimmers a www.boston.about.com Besides the usual antique stores and deep red from the rays of the setting sun, The Boston Historical Society chic restaurants there are colonial and and at night it glows a ghostly blue. and Museum post-colonial attractions like the Harrison www.bostonhistory.org Gray Otis House (sampling life in the The Other Green Monster early 19th century), the African American Veteran Boston visitors will find one thing Boston Red Sox Meeting House, the Boston Athenaeum, totally remarkable when they reach the end www.redsox.com and the Massachusetts State House, of Faneuil Hall Marketplace and head to the which sits atop the most prominent point waterfront. Whether you veer left and hit Church of Christ, Scientist of the hill. From its gold-leaf dome to its the North End, with its many Italian www.themotherchuch.org sweeping elevated columns, it boasts an eateries and European air, or veer right to The Leif Eriksson Memorial impressive edifice. Atop its imperious the harbor and the aquarium, one thing will www.boston-online.com/ perch, it looks down the famous hill to most likely shock you simply by not being bizhistory.html the waterfront, where much of our pre- there. The Central Artery, that hideous hulk revolutionary history took place. The site of elevated highway tunneled under as part The “Smoot” as a Unit of the Boston Massacre, the Old South of the “Big Dig,” is slowly being removed of Measurement Meeting House, Old North Church, Paul from the landscape (most likely as a gesture www.mit.edu/museum/fun/ Revere’s House, King’s Chapel Church, as towards that other convention in July). smoots.html well as some very early Boston graveyards You should come to Boston, if only to see The Big Dig are all within a radius of several blocks. something that isn’t there. www.bigdig.com In the distance are the old and the John Pedini ([email protected]) is new. The famous and popular Faneuil Hall director of media services at the Social Law Marketplace (now called Quincy Market), Library in Boston.

announcements New Members Appointed to Nominations Committee

They may not be throwing their hats in St. Louis; Susan Siebers of Katten candidates that reflect the diversity of the ring, but they do shape the election Muchin Zavis Rosenman, Chicago; AALL’s membership, thus ensuring process. The AALL Executive Board and Maryruth Storer of the Orange that the members of the Executive appointed three members in November County Public Law Library, Santa Ana, Board represent a balance of library 2003 to serve on the 2004–2005 AALL California. The continuing members types, geographic locations, genders, Nominations Committee, the body that and Board Liaison Victoria Trotta of and minorities. chooses the candidates for Executive Arizona State University, Tempe, will For the 2005 elections, ballots Board elections. serve until December 31. will be distributed electronically to all Ann Jeter of Jackson Walker LLP, In the fall of 2004, the eight- voting members of the Association in Dallas; Michael Miller of the Maryland member committee will present a slate November 2005. The ballots will be State Law Library, Annapolis; and of suitable candidates for the 2005 tabulated electronically at AALL Madison Mosley Jr. of Stetson elections to the Executive Board. They headquarters and election results University College of Law, St. will choose two candidates to vie for the announced in December 2005. For more Petersburg, Florida, commenced their position of vice president/president- information about the nomination two-year terms on January 1. They join elect, two candidates to run for process or to propose possible nominees continuing members Chair Christine treasurer, and four candidates to for the 2005 elections, please contact Graesser of Brown Rudnick Freed and contend for two open seats on the Christine Graesser, chair of the 2004- Gesmer, Hartford, Connecticut; Philip Executive Board. In accordance with its 2005 Nominations Committee, at Berwick of Washington University, charge, the committee must choose cgraesser@brbilaw.

20 AALL Spectrum Magazine April 2004