‘Bostonitis’

Boston from above, with its famous harbor, the initial source of its power and wealth, in the middle.

“Then here's to the City of Boston,

The town of the cries and the groans,

Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks

And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.’’

— Franklin Pierce Adams (1881-1960), New York columnist

"No doubt the Bostonian has always been noted for a certain chronic irritability — a sort of Bostonistis — which, in its primitive puritan form, seemed due to knowing too much of his neighbors, and thinking too much of himself.''

— Henry Adams (1838-1918), American historian and member of the famous Massachusetts Adams family