tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post5107681682648124359..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: “Where BOSTONIA lifts her spires”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-42964908522431310722020-01-05T13:54:52.586-05:002020-01-05T13:54:52.586-05:00I doubt there’s a specific connection to Boston be...I doubt there’s a specific connection to Boston because composing “carriers’ verses” was a tradition all over North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-81751160536807500802020-01-05T13:31:02.143-05:002020-01-05T13:31:02.143-05:00There is a tradition in the United States Navy tha...There is a tradition in the United States Navy that the first log entry of the New Year is to be written in verse. This is true in no other navy in the world. Could there be a connection between the practice in Boston of 1775?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05202522596173863831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-89593956368630566622020-01-02T15:09:23.358-05:002020-01-02T15:09:23.358-05:00Yeah, once I stumbled across that painting I had t...Yeah, once I stumbled across that painting I had to include it. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-5086425778647791142020-01-02T14:31:45.439-05:002020-01-02T14:31:45.439-05:00That stare, though! The good doctor has the same l...That stare, though! The good doctor has the same look I give my son just as he's about to do something stupid.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16904719730434782890noreply@blogger.com