Cutting down Beacon Hill in 1811; a view from the north toward the Massachusetts State House
(Photo: Flux.books on Wikipedia)
10 things I remember about Suffolk/Harvard:
1. Construction around the State House and the refurbished gold dome.
2. Coffee in Downtown Crossing…it always made the long winter walks up the hill tolerable.
3. Downtown Crossing and Filene’s Basement…no longer there.
4. Cambridge Street with its New England storefronts, high-end restaurants, along with the more local fare, and the side streets of made cobblestone.
 |
| "Fair with Lace" Photo: Angela M. Counts |
5. Boston Common…the walkways that criss cross in and out of the country's oldest public park, of all them leading up the hill.
6. Suffolk University housed in a small high-rise on a quaint side street.
7. The little brick building, where the Diversity and Community Partnership (DCP) program is housed on Harvard’s medical school campus.
8. The 39 bus that picked me up in front of my house and dropped me off around the corner from DCP.
9. Longwood Medical Area – Children’s Hospital, Dana Farber, Beth Israel, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and more.
10. The Fenway, just less than a mile to the North of Longwood Medical Area, with Fenway Park, the Landmark Center, and the Emerald Necklace.
K – Like many people coming to Boston, those years ago I associated the city with the big universities – B.U., M.I.T., and Harvard. The architecture and myth of those places loomed large, how could you miss the big concrete dome of the M.I.T. building crossing the Mass Avenue Bridge into Cambridge. But tucked between the Ivy, are a myriad of Boston schools and with them associated after-school programs.
K represents elementary education, and specifically biomedical education: K-12 as it’s commonly called. I worked for a department at Harvard called Diversity and Community Partnership, and ran the biomedical research programs for youth, middle school through college. Through this experience, I met the teachers, Boston City school students, Harvard Medical graduate students, HMS scientists and doctors, and non-profit workers who strive for higher education for underrepresented minority youth in the sciences and in healthcare. It is another face of Boston that people rarely see and it is also a racially, culturally and ethnically diverse face of the city. Check out some of the links below, particularly the one on the K-12 program. The photos are copyrighted but K-12 the website is a good place to begin.
