Mention “the reservoir” to people in Brookline today and they will probably think of one of two bodies of water: the Chestnut Hill Reservoir or the Brookline Reservoir. But there were once three reservoirs on Fisher Hill. Read about them at bit.ly/bk-reservoirs

Free walking tour, this Sunday.

The triangle formed by Washington, Harvard, and School Streets in Brookline Village could be called the Municipal Triangle. I tell the first part of its story in Part 1 of an illustrated and narrated presentation at bit.ly/pierceschool...

DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency? More like Department of Gratuitous Elimination

This is just a very small sample of the online resources made available through public libraries in Brookline and elsewhere with help from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, one of the Federal agencies that Trump plans to abolish.

Brookline's oldest restaurant. (Or is it?) brooklinehistory.blogspot.com/2025/03/broo...

I was surprised to learn via the New York Times today that some Jews in the second century BC lived a half-hour train ride outside Rome. But, sure enough, there is ancient photo evidence.

The 1956 opening of Twin Donuts was advertised in the Brookline Citizen.

Just back from the audiologist, so I thought I would share this list I created three years ago after seeing an ad for Styletto hearing aids. Enjoy these other possible hearing aids named after shoes.

I took this picture around the corner from my house eight years ago today, two weeks into the first Trump presidency. If it seemed prophetic then, it seems even more so now.

Sunset over the Stop & Shop parking lot last night.

I've been taking many pictures of the demolition of my daughters' old school, and also had this letter about it published in response to an article in the Brookline News. brookline.news/re-what-to-k...

The plastic sheet covering Cypress Field only looks like ice, but once upon a time there actually was ice skating on the field. (Public Library photo)

An April 5, 1877 article in the Nebraska Herald proposed village life as a middle ground between the life of a farmer and that of an "urbanist.

I don't think I've ever had a fortune that fits me so well.