An early sign of spring in Boston: the pond in the Public Garden has been refilled. No swan boats yet.
This morning in the Public Garden
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UK pub day
Today is the UK publishing day for Defending Jacob. Safe journey, little book!
Ad of the day
Cool print ad campaign for the chamber orchestra of the Berliner Philharmoniker featuring expansive photos of the cramped spaces inside musical instruments. More images here. (Via Andrew Sullivan)
L.A.P.D Archives, 1955
Richard and Mildred Loving, 1965
Richard and Mildred Loving (1965), by Life photographer Grey Villet.
Exiled from their native Virginia for violating the state’s anti-miscegenation laws, the couple were the appellants in the landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (1967). The Lovings’ story is told here. More on the Life magazine photos here and here.
Making Gatsby
Fitzgerald’s handwritten manuscript of The Great Gatsby (via)
Iconic images colorized
Missing the West End
Architecture critic Robert Campbell has a nice essay in today’s Boston Globe asking “What makes the memory of this neighborhood so durable? Why do the people, half a century later, still feel that they are members of it?” Of course, the demolition of the West End figures prominently in my novel The Strangler. (Photos: Boston Globe.)
(Images: Boston’s old West End under demolition, ca. 1958-60.)