Always Something Doing: Boston's Infamous Scollay Square (Northeastern University Press, 1999) and Scollay Square (Arcadia Publishing, 2004) are available in bookstores everywhere, and on line at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.  You can also order the new Scollay Square directly from Arcadia.

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America's first public beach was Revere Beach (shown at the left), which has been lovingly brought back to life in this entertaining and informative web site.


Here's an interesting way to tour Boston - by cell phone.  It's narrated by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and features David Kruh on Stop #8 (Government Center, of course.)  Click above for more information.

 
Tattoo aficionados have created this site devoted to the body art that helped make the Square famous around the world.  Check out excerpts from the book Tattoo History Source Book: Confessions of a Tattoo Addict.

The Orkney Islands were the ancestral home of the Scollay family.

 


Scollay Square may have been torn down, but it lives in the pages of this wonderful comic book written by our good friend (and fellow Scollay Square aficionado) Ted Slampyak.  Ted sez: "Follow the continuing adventures of Harvard archaeologist Clifton M. Jennings, low-brow private eye Ace Mifflin, Prof. Carlisle, the enigmatic Nora, the perturbed Rita and the rest of the gang as they face new and mysterious adventures!"
 


A great site for those of us with old 78s we want to play,
but are afraid of scratching!

Another EXCELLENT site on America's oldest subway system is 100 Years of the Tremont Street Subway by several subway aficionados, including Bradley Clarke.

Boston Online, features a History page that is chock full of great links

A pictorial look (from Yale University) of the demolition of the West End neighborhood, which was located hard by Scollay Square.

 
Featuring photos like the one to the left (of an original sign from the Scollay Under T stop), Jonathan Belcher's web site on Abandoned Stations is a real treat.

The Bostonian Society's museum and research library which collects, preserves and makes available for research materials relating to the history of Boston, from its earliest inhabitation to the present day.

Leon Merrian, (whom I interviewed for the book), has been a performer, teacher, recording artist, and trumpet mouthpiece designer, is now an author.  Leon has written an account of his life titled The Man Behind the Horn, which we can only hope includes stories of old Scollay Square!

Along a more scholarly line are websites on the Boston Police Strike by Columbia student Zachary Shrag.
 
In Boston are the communities of Brighton and Allston, with an active historical society that has this web site. 

Did you know that the world's finest banjos were made in Scollay Square?  We didn't!  Learn more at this link.

Click here to learn about the connection between Boston College Law School and the Square.


Pemberton Square lay just up Beacon Hill from the Square, and was the home to Henry Vane, John Winthrop, and the Boston Police headquarters.  Its history is detailed at the web site above.  Just click on the picture above to go there.
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