'Mellow and mature'

Park Street, Boston, looking toward the State House.

"Boston does not represent the quintessential excellence of all the world's cities synthesized into a paradigm of urban beauty and virtue, but it is a place at once characteristic, mellow and mature, and possessed of many qualities not entirely divorced from charm."

— Lucius Beebe (1902-1966), historian, columnist, travel writer, gourmand and inventor of the phrase “Cafe Society.’’ He was a native of Wakefield, Mass., where his remains are buried, but made his national name as a journalist in New York City and California. He became America’s most famous railroad expert/writer.