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They Burnt Tolerable Well: In Search of Boston’s First Street Lamps
They Burnt Tolerable Well: In Search of Boston’s First Street Lamps
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38 minutes
Released:
Jan 15, 2023
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How can something as simple as streetlights transform a city? What can the Boston Massacre teach us about how dark the streets and alleyways of Boston were in the years before streetlights? How did the town decide to buy English oil lamps for the streets but fuel them with American whale oil? How did Boston’s very first street lamps survive a shipwreck and the Boston Tea Party, and who decided where they would be installed and how they would be maintained? In the era of climate change, what does the future hold for Boston’s quaint remaining gas street lamps? Let’s find out!
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Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/266/
Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory/
Released:
Jan 15, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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