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What a perfect opportunity to see Beantown. I'll bet many of you have never been to the Museum of Fine Arts or the Museum of Science, or seen the USS Constitution, or walked the Freedom Trail. Hell, I know a guy who in his three years here has yet to see the Atlantic Ocean. If the thermometer reaches the fifties or sixties some day next week I'll be headed for its shores. The water may be a trifle colder than in Florida but a beach is a beach is a beach. If you want to join me, take...
Woods served in the Navy aboard the USS Cleveland in 1917, and later worked for the investment firm of Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis in Boston...
...USS Turner Joy and the USS Maddox, the two U.S. destroyers which invaded North Vietnamese waters in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, were on NSA assignment...
That package includes plans, drawn up by the Boston Redevelopment Authority with help from Harvard, for the location of the museum in an existing building and an overhaul of the USS Constitution...
...Charlestown Navy Yard is filled with dirty old granite buildings. The Yard is shut down now, closed by the government in 1973. It's ghost town, silently rotting away on the banks of the Charles River. Some buildings, like the one next to the USS Constitution, have managed to escape anonymity simply by historical proximity. But most of the structures are like Building 36, lacking a history before the mid-1800's, serving for a brief time as a sail-making factory, and scarred by an ugly brick addition tacked on to meet World War Two supply demands...