That was then

Old South Church at Copley Square at sunset. This United Church of Christ congregation was first organized in 1669.

— Photo by Rhododendrites

“Boston – wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming – has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade.”

— Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007), literary critic, short-story writer and novelist, in 1962