Anthony N. Penna

This collection of essays grew out of a conference held at the Massachusetts Historical Society in 2006. It opens with an introduction by co-editor Anthony Penna on the vast changes wrought on the Boston landscape since European colonization, and the following essays touch on various aspects of the changed landscape: the shifting shorelines of Boston Harbor and the Shawmut Peninsula; the unmaking of Boston's hills; the importance of the city's parks systems, &c. Other essays examine Boston's past and current weather patterns (the most interesting to me was Lauri Bauer Coleman's ''Rain Down Righteousness': Interpretations of Natural Events in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Boston.'

Specialized, but perhaps of interest to fans of environmental and/or Boston history.… (meer)