Local Pulse
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Living History
Cover Feature, Current
Boston is where the whole business of being American began, so it’s not surprising that the country’s oldest historical society is located here, in an 1899 Colonial Revival-era building at the intersection of Hemenway and Boylston. This is the Massachusetts Historical Society’s seventh home, and it suits them. Even the lobby oozes old, new world charm. Lisa Krassner, the organization’s newest president, leads me up the spiral marble staircase into a hallway lined with gleaming colonial-era furniture to an elegant circular chamber that looks out on a corner of the Emerald Necklace and the Fenway’s endless construction projects.
by Claire Vail
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They say if you want to ruin a friendship, go into business together. But they haven’t met the owners of Forty Winks, Dress Boston, and Crush Boutique, three of Beacon Hill’s most elegant boutiques. Remarkably, all these stores were founded and are still owned by women who bonded early in life. MyBoston sits down with these dynamic duos—women who are both close friends and business partners.













