Greater Boston Restaurants Rally to Support Boston Marathon Victims

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(BOSTON, MA) - Always one of the first to mobilize, the Greater Boston restaurant community is coming together in various ways in response to yesterday's Boston Marathon tragedy. On Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 several restaurants across the Greater Boston area and beyond will band together and donate a percentage of their sales to the victims of yesterday's tragedy via The Greg Hill Foundation. The organization was selected based on its hyper-local nature and its history of immediate action in directing funds to those most in need. "All of the donations will go directly to the families. There Continue reading >>>

Famous Bostonians React to ‘Devastating’ Marathon Bombings

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Ben Affleck, Tom Bergeron, and Boston mayor Thomas Menino were among many celebrities with ties to Boston who reacted with sadness and disbelief after Tuesday’s marathon bombing that killed three and wounded 150. As details continued to unfold, stars who call Boston their hometown took to social media to call the incident “senseless,” “devastating,” and “upsetting.” Other celebrities searched for hope amid the tragedy: Maria Menounos asserted that, “there’s more good than evil out there,” and Dane Cook told fellow Bostonians, “You will become stronger from this.” Read on Continue reading >>>

Fishbat CMO Jennifer Calise Offers Support to Bostonians After Boston …

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 News    Blogs    Groups    Images Fishbat CMO Jennifer Calise Offers Support to Bostonians After Boston Marathon Bomb Explosions PRWEB.COM Newswire Bohemia, NY (PRWEB) April 16, 2013 On April 16, 2013, Jennifer Calise, CMO of fishbat, Inc., a social media management agency, responds to the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday, offering support and weighing in with her perspective on the advantages of using social media to spread information, raise support and mediate emergencies. Two bomb explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon caused Continue reading >>>

Boston Marathon attack – Patriots’ Day explained: Civic holiday that holds a …

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Close to 2,000 British troops tried to destroy the militias’ weapons stores, but were driven back to their garrison in Boston and besieged. Eight years and 70,000 deaths later America’s War of Independence was over, the colonial masters defeated. The great American essayist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson described the opening salvo in the war as “the shot heard ‘round the world”. And that shot will be for ever associated with Boston.The city has always proclaimed its role in the revolution and its pride at those early American patriots - history is part of Boston’s identity in Continue reading >>>

Boston Marathon: The world’s most fabled marathon for 116 years

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For 116 years, the world's most fabled footrace - Boston Marathon - had withstood all that nature could bring - snow, rain, heat and cold.But the twisted hand of man brought a dramatic halt to it yesterday as twin explosions ripped through the cheering crowd killing three, including an 8-year-old, while injuring over140 injured.The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon hosted by several cities in Greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts.It is always held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April.Begun in 1897, inspired by the first modern-day marathon competition in the 1896 Summer Continue reading >>>

Business leaders come together

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It will take some time, but Hub business leaders were confident in the wake of yesterday’s Boston Marathon blasts that the city will bounce back and that visitors will not be scared away by the cowardly attack.“It’s such a devastating event to the families whose family members lost their lives or were injured or maimed,” Pat Moscaritolo, president of the Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau, told the Herald. “It’s just so horrible, but Americans are resilient, so I am confident that they’ll rise up and they will travel and they will travel to Boston.”He added that area attractions Continue reading >>>

Today at last we’re all Bostonians

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To paraphrase President John F. Kennedy who, as of this writing, may or may not have had his presidential library hit by a terrorist bomb yesterday: “Ich bin ein Bostonian.”Yesterday’s deadly attack on the Boston Marathon did something to me that eight years of living, writing and talking in this city couldn’t:It made me a Bostonian. I mean a Bostonian all the way down in my gut. When the reports of explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line first hit my Twitter stream (that’s how you found out about it, right?), I rolled my eyes. What — another manhole cover problem in the Continue reading >>>

UNION: Sheanon Williams sure hometown Boston will …

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When he heard the news Monday, Sheanon Williams’ first reaction was to call his father. The Philadelphia Union defender, a native Bostonian, reached for his cell phone and made the frantic call. “My dad still works downtown and he was working today,” Williams said. “I was mostly concerned with him more than anything. As soon as I found out he was OK, I texted friends and others just to be sure everyone was safe.” Three were killed and more than 130 were injured by explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday, as runners crossed and Continue reading >>>

What the Boston Marathon means to a Bostonian

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n Monday, two explosions erupted near the finish line for the Boston Marathon, injuring scores of people and killing at least two.  The scene was horrific and frightening and dumbfounding, and as any Bostonian can attest, it couldn't have come on a worse day for the city. Marathons everywhere draw thousands of spectators, the grandeur of the events enticing people from all segments of the general public. This is especially true in Boston, where the marathon is just one piece of a full-fledged local holiday that sees over a half million spectators, participants, and Continue reading >>>