Obscurorant 2.0

First up, a cool story about how Library of Congress archivists ‘crowdsourced’ an image of downtown Brockton to obtain more information about the picture.  Apparently, the Library’s flickr set contains all sorts of New England images in need of metadata.
For more photographic goodness, see Google’s collection of pictures from Life magazine, many previously unreleased to [...]

The Intended brought it to my attention that The Littlest Bar is reopening at 102 Broad St (next door to the Times.)
It will be hard to recreate the atmosphere of the original, but hopefully the new establishment will develop a character of its own. Anyway, it’s nice to get a bar back, especially since the [...]