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Article: Thomas N. Brown, historian steeped in Boston ethos, professor at UMass, 89
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 28, 2009
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Glimpsing Boston's skyline on foot or from the Red Line as the
train climbed the Longfellow Bridge, Thomas N. Brown spied ghosts
of history mingling amid the buildings old and new that chronicle
the city's march through time.
"When you look up and see the State House, there is a kind of
lightness and grace about it," Dr. Brown told the Globe in 1988,
when he retired from the University of Massachusetts at Boston. "I
know a good deal about the city and its history, and so when I look
at these buildings, in some way, I suppose, figures out of the past
come together and blend in with just the plain old visual pleasure
of the city."
A historian who took as much pleasure in teaching as he did in ...