The View...
September 5, 2008
…from my new office, five floors above the sanctuary at Old South Church.
Coordinates here. The Boston Public Library is right across the street, and the restaurant scene is great around here.
Copley Square is the first Boston neighborhood I considered “mine.” Even though I grew up just outside the city, we always came into Boston—for shopping, movies, a special meal out. I had a Boston Public Library card as a kid. My trip to the orthodontist took me through Copley Square by trolley and bus. I can’t remember the name of it now, but a record store on Boylston Street near Fairlfield (above Copy Cop!) became my first regular place to buy albums. My first job in Boston, toward the end of high school, was in the Prudential Center down the street. Later, I would go to grad school at Emerson, which is downtown now but then inhabited a loosely grouped set of brownstones centered at Beacon and Berkeley streets. After I joined Houghton Mifflin in the 1990s, they soon after moved their headquarters to Berkeley and Boylston. They remain a client to this day, and I can see the building from my new window.
And, as I type this, someone is on the organ. On that “note,” time to grab some lunch and get back to work.
Posted by Bill Trippe at September 5, 2008 11:51 AM
