Boston’s historic lion and unicorn statues will return to their perch of more than 100 years atop the Old State House Sunday, along with a brand new 2014 time capsule.The statues, now freshly coated in gold and palladium, will be unveiled in the Boston Massacre Plaza behind the Old State House at 10 a.m. Sunday before they are hoisted up to the top of the 300-year-old landmark by a crane, said Bostonian Society spokeswoman Heather Leet in a statement. Continue reading below Brian LeMay, the society’s president, said the newly renovated statues are “truly Continue reading >>>

We’ve been asked what exactly it was that we wrote in our letter that’s in the Old State House time capsule. Well, here it is. Image via the Bostonian Society When the Bostonian Society asked Boston to write a letter to posterity to be slipped inside of a custom-made time capsule, which will be placed in the Old State House lion statue, and read by the people living in the city in 2114, we were honored, to say the least. But once the fuzzy feelings finally subsided, the stress set in. “What should we write?,” we thought. And we thought, and we thought. The possibilities Continue reading >>>

Benedict Cumberbatch is the latest star to be in Vogue.Cumberbatch heading to Boston. Photographed by Mario Testino, Vogue, December 2014The actor talks about EVERYTHING going on in his meteoric rise in the acting world, and the newly engaged star also talks about the coming film “Black Mass” where Johnny Depp will roll out his “Blow” Boston accent again for his character, Beantown’s most wanted felon, Whitey Bulger, filmed in a part of Boston that quite frankly is getting a little tired of being typecast by Hollywood outsiders.“Black Mass” is based on a non-fiction book by two former Continue reading >>>

Londonderry man Jim MacFarland will be among eight traditional singers taking part in a unique series of concerts in the National Library in Dublin this Winter. Jim, a founding member of the Londonderry Traditional Singing Circle, will sing at the opening concert of the ‘Man, Woman and Child’ series this Wednesday (November 26) at the Dawson Street venue.The series, which will also feature Sandra Joyce, Grace Toland, Hammy Hamilton, Róisín Gaffney, Fergus Russell, Roisín White and Len Graham, is essentially a celebration of the Child Ballad Collection: a trove Continue reading >>>

Follow Paul on Twitter: @paulstewart22 Thanksgiving Day of 1979 in the United States fell on November 22. Tomorrow marks 35 years since that day, which was when all of my boyhood dreams came true. All I ever wanted in my life was to play hockey. I appreciate my Groton and University of Pennsylvania education -- maybe I do have a little more intelligence than my critics think I do -- but the rink has always been where I've been the happiest. Without hockey, I wouldn't be alive to write this. As a matter of fact, without the goal of reaching and then returning to the NHL, I might not have even Continue reading >>>

Julio Pena realized he wanted to keep fighting in a moment that would make most think twice during his kickboxing debut in 2007.“He caught me with a hook on the tip of my nose, and my nose started to bleed pretty good,” recalled Pena. “I remember the ref separating us after clinching up, and I saw the blood and was like, ‘Man, this is real.’ I used a couple other words that I don’t think you can print, but I was like, man, this is insane, this is crazy, this is awesome. I could do this again.”The journey that began that night in Philadelphia for Pena, a Jamaica Plain native and deputy Continue reading >>>

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- 2013 Boston Marathon medal and biography of donor Gregory Soutiea. – Letters from Boston journalists: a. Kiera Blessing, Boston Globe; b. Steve Annear, Boston Magazine; c. Brian Burns, Boston.com. – Photograph of current Boston Mayor, Martin Walsh. – Photograph of former Boston Mayor, Thomas Menino. – Tickets from April 20, 2012 Fenway Park Centennial Boston Red Sox game, donated by Peter Loring. – David Ortiz limited-edition bobblehead, donated by the Boston Red Sox. – Apple iPhone 5, donated by Patrick LeTourneau. – Boston Globe newspaper, October 10, 2014, with story about discovery Continue reading >>>

BOSTON — Whoever opens Boston's time capsule in 2114 will find a David Ortiz bobblehead doll and a medal from the 2013 Boston Marathon. The Bostonian Society says the figurine of the Red Sox slugger — and the medal from the city's iconic footrace in the year terrorists targeted it — are among 26 items contained in the new capsule. The copper box has been inserted into the head of a golden lion statue that has long stood guard over the Old State House. It replaces a 1901 capsule that was opened last month. Other items include an Apple iPhone 5 and a Legal Sea Continue reading >>>

Bostonians may not immediately recognize the refurbished gold lion and silver unicorn statues when they return to the top of the Old State House on Sunday morning. Their restored coats will be just that sparklingly different. “They are super shiny,” Heather Leet, the Bostonian Society’s director of development, said. “It’s a huge change from what they looked like.” The unicorn, in particular, will be noticeably different with its new palladium cover. When the statues were taken down from the Old State House in September, the unicorn had turned a bland shade of greenish-gray. The Continue reading >>>