(Part 3) Top products from r/boston

Gotcha. In that case, I would recommend they try out codecademy.org to learn some JavaScript and maybe try making a canvas-based game, like an asteroids clone. There are probably tutorials on Youtube for that. I think theres also a great book called HTML5 Canvas for Game Programming, that they might enjoy if they're into making a game.

As far as socializing goes, I don't have any good ideas, but maybe they could try participating in a hackathon. But the best bet might be any clubs existing at their school. And if there isnt one, they could always start a new club. That looks great on a college application.

Also, as others have said the Harvard online courseware is pretty good.

Edit: Sorry, I had the title wrong. It's actually called Core HTML5 Canvas:

https://www.amazon.com/Core-HTML5-Canvas-Animation-Development/dp/0132761610

Might be unorthodox but, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of of 1968 is an awesome book about rock and it’s origins in Boston among other things. Van Morrison recorded the album in Boston and it gives a great rock history lesson of the time in Boston.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735221340/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_A1vOAbBP9N2NS

Not really related, but I always found it interesting that Virginia got its name by virtue of an English attempt to inspire settlers to move to the territory by invoking the image of a "young virgin awaiting the loss of her maidenhead".

Source- https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-British-Empire/dp/031216985X

Black Mass is literally about Bulger & the FBI. Might as well start with that since that's the movie Depp is filming in town. If you're into that stuff, Rat Bastards. is supposed to be great, though I didn't read, my old man loved it.

If you like that kind of thing, there is a book that details how the 1986 tax reform was passed, and how it mutated over time. It's fascinating how many people had their hands on it.

It's called Showdown at Gucci Gulch.

Showdown at Gucci Gulch https://www.amazon.com/dp/0394758110/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_4pZxwb0ZEWDRX

In the 70's the difference between an average CEO's salary and the salary of his employees was around 30:1, these days its more like 350:1 because decades of deregulation and privatization has moved billions of dollars of public wealth into private hands. Do some reading on distribution of wealth and where some of big guys actually made their money.

Black Mass by Dick Lehr is a good start. I actually preferred Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy's Whitey Bulger (thought it did a better job of exploring the web of FBI and federal corruption) but both are worthy of a read.

This thing will keep you so warm, you'll sweat in negative temps.

I bought this from Penneys when I first moved up here. It is definitely too heavy for the usual days, but when we have those extreme polar vortexes or cold snaps, it is perfect. This is a "it is in the negatives, wind is 30mph, and currently snowing" coat.

Since you set it up, I highly recommend the book "Why are the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?"

http://www.amazon.com/Death-at-Early-Age-Plume/dp/0452262925

A good look at racism in Boston (in the 50s and 60s).

It is very complicated--not to give an excuse for the way Boston works with race. It isn't simply about skin color, but a pervasive class system based on the tribal tendencies of neighborhoods and ghettoized groups. If you think Irish people from Charlestown and Somerville and Southie all get along, you're fucking wrong.

For example: growing up, I went to a school that was called "Minority majority" in that 3/4 of the students were not "white." I learned there was a difference between Haitian and "Black" and Dominican and Ethiopian--largely at the insistence of people who would make it a point to differentiate. Tribalism is the enemy. Love your neighbors, trust your society.

Try Amazon Marketplace if (as I suspect) you don't get luck here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0195147790/

"Irish" history? Isn't that redundant? I mean, isn't Irish history basically the history of the entire Western Civilization?

P.S.: I'm not related to, acquainted with, or have any sort of business relationship with Thomas Cahill. If some of you do choose to buy his book based on my post, let him know he owes me some referral fees. :D

It's all explained here: https://www.amazon.com/Boston-Drivers-Handbook-Big-Dig/dp/0201622254/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465479481&sr=8-1&keywords=boston+drivers+guide

As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution - http://www.amazon.com/As-Enemys-Country-Occupation-Revolution/dp/0199895775

For a sense of how Boston has changed over the years, check out:

Cityscapes of Boston and
Boston Then and Now

And she's gone.

You should stop letting her have such a large space in your head. This is typed by a guy still getting negative events out of his own head forty years after the fact.

Here's a help. Changed my life for the better. It's been in print for >20 years.

A memoir, not a novel, but Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.

> That sure sounds like a unbiased court proceeding to me.

It was incredibly biased. Against the British soldiers. The entire town wanted to summarily lynch them. Which is why the evidence that they were acting in self defense had to be so overwhelming and incontrovertible to acquit them.

I dont know where you got that quote because it is nowhere in the document you linked. I did find this quote which undermines your conclusion:

>Thomas Preston had not expected to walk away a free man. Surrendering himself to local civilian authorities on the night of the incident, he awaited trial in the town jail for over seven months. Knowing that Massachusetts judges would preside over a provincial court held in Boston, before a jury drawn from Suffolk County freeholders, with local lawyers to represent him, he - with seemingly good reason - thought his chances of a fair trial slim. Seeing nothing but gloom ahead, he was sure that witnesses would perjure them- selves in court to secure his conviction and presumably his execution, despite his "clear conscience" and certainty that he was innocent of the charge. Were the trial before impartial judges and jurors in another venue, he believed that he would be exonerated. But in Boston he anticipated "a shameful end."

In fact I dont think you read any of this document at all because it very clearly and directly contradicts the point you are trying to make repeatedly. And for the most part this article is about the trial and its aftermath, not the massacre itself. Among the few mentions of the events leading up to the massacre is this quote:

>No one could deny that the sentry had been ridiculed by passing boys or that some had thrown snowballs at him...It was evident that the men of the relief party had been roughed up a bit. People taunted the soldiers and tugged at their weapons; the troops were hit by flying objects

The story of Garrick being hit by the butt of a rifle comes from the Short Narrative which was not evidence from the trial but a propaganda pamphlet printed by Boston newspapers to sway public opinion in Britain and the rest of the colonies. It was not used as evidence in the trial, because it was a propaganda story and by that point it had already served its purpose

More quotes from the document you linked:

>The Fair Account challenged the validity of the story presented in the Short Narrative...Hutchinson had sent twenty-five depositions from twenty-seven deponents in all, five civilians and twenty-two soldiers. Another two depositions (also from civilians) were sent later and added in London, bracketing the original set. As in the Short Narrative, a long introduction designed to shape readers' impressions preceded the depositions. Likewise, deeper causes were located years before, but there the similarities end. As the Fair Account told it, those underlying causes were not traceable to flaws in the navigation system but instead to selfish Bostonians who had wrongly denied Parliament's authority to regulate their trade. Petty, mean-spirited, ultimately treasonous, their behavior on March 5 showed their willingness to levy "war against the King" by accosting his "troops who were sent thither to preserve the public peace." Soldiers trying to do their duty encountered "the utmost malice and injustice" from the moment they stepped ashore.

>....according to this rendition, the soldiers had been lured into an ambush of fists and clubs. Gangs of local ruffians disingenuously turned their acts of self-defense into a pretext to roam the streets, indiscriminately waylaying and accosting any soldiers who crossed their path - officers or enlisted men, members of the Twenty-ninth

>...It was a civilian witness who claimed that Preston "spoke often to the mob, desiring them to be quiet and disperse," and that the soldiers fired raggedly, not in volley, only after being assaulted

Again, go read the book and stop trying to take out of context quotes to preserve the myth fabricated in American elementary schools. Particularly since the source you linked to prove me wrong says about this same book in the second paragraph:

>For more than thirty years readers have relied on legal scholar Hiller Zobel to walk them through the "massacre" maze. Zobel spent a great many pages setting the scene before telling his rigorously researched tale...Zobel's rendition is still considered authoritative on the "massacre" itself as well as the sequence of events leading up to the trials...