general-george-washington:

John Adams was just out here picking fights holy shit

Here’s some John Adams quotes on other Founders

Ben Franklin: “His whole life has been one continued insult to good manners and to decency.”

George Washington: “That Washington is not a scholar is certain. That he is too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station is equally beyond dispute.”

Alexander Hamilton:

“That bastard brat of a Scottish peddler! His ambition, his restlessness and all his grandiose schemes come, I’m convinced, from a superabundance of secretions, which he couldn’t find enough whores to absorb!”

my mother just sent me the most accurate possible map of massachusetts ever created:

Hi, I’m from West Portugal.

dorknewton:

kuttithevangu:

smallestcitrus:

Im drunk in a uber and just gazed upon two dudes in a dunkin donuts having an arm wrestling match

This is how they decide the mayor of Boston

@greaterblogston

fafarago:

“Dock Square, Rockport, Massachusetts” (ca. 1960)

by Paul Strisik (1918-1998)

The Artist Who Preserved the Vanishing Technology of Knots

lucybellwood:

The Ashley Book of Knots is a legendary tome among nautical enthusiasts, and the New Bedford Whaling Museum is currently hosting an incredible exhibit on its author, Clifford W. Ashley. I don’t know that I’ll be able to make it across the country before the show comes down in June, but if any of you are in the area, please go and tweet me pictures.

oh! I saw this exhibit when I visited my folks for the holidays, it’s fantastic! they do a great job integrating the craft of knotwork with the practical aspects of how they were used on ships, and with broader decorative arts!

itwashotwestayedinthewater:

itwashotwestayedinthewater:

itwashotwestayedinthewater:

fact: today is the 94th anniversary of the Boston Molasses Disaster

fact: today is the 98th anniversary of the Boston Molasses Disaster

fact: today is the 99th anniversary of the Boston Molasses Disaster