Cold or angry even in summer

— Photo by David Shankbone

South Boston

''This can be a cold place, Boston, and the weather is the least of it. We're often unwelcoming to outsiders. We have a maddening trait of sniping at insiders. We have equal parts determination and aloofness proudly bred into our native bones like the hunting instincts in championship dog.''

--Brian McGrory, in The Boston Globe of March 15, 2002