It happened in boston

From a witch hanging on boston common to the first time two brides legally walked down the aisle together, it happened in boston offers a unique look at intriguing people and episodes from the history of beantown. learn about the incredible, 300-mile journey that led to the british evacuation of boston in 1776. meet the heroic soldiers of the massachusetts fifty-fourth, the first african-american regiment to take up arms in the civil war. and read the rap sheets of boston's most notorious criminals, including the slippery thieves who stripped $300 million in art from the isabella stewart gardner museum. step off the freedom trail to explore lesser-known landscapes in boston's history. a city of statesmen and scoundrels, freedom fighters and reactionaries, innovators and iconoclasts, "the hub" comes alive in twenty-seven colorful stories.