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MEET BOSTON

in What's New In Town
Jan., 1941 - Sept., 1942

89 weekly columns presenting very interesting and little known facts about Boston and American history written by "Jacob Marmor" (pseudonym) 

 

"It is not pure history, nor memory, nor pure fiction, but rather a mixture of all three; not dry research, but affection that puts life-blood into the material."W. J. Sidis

 

"BORIS SIDIS was born at Kieff, Russia, May 6, 1868,
the son of Moses and Mary (Marmor) Sidis."
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Sidis wrote this introduction to the first week's column:

This is introducing a new kind of column, by Jacob Marmor, to Boston. It is a very impersonal one. As far as possible, the author is an impersonal character, injecting into it none of his personal ideas or habits: and personalities do not enter. To get the right spirit, the reader should regard the author as just an old-time lover of Boston, who, in the course of wandering around, has picked up scraps of information and stories. Not a native, but one who can see the city with the eyes of a lover rather than a relative. It is not pure history, nor memory, nor pure fiction, but rather a mixture of all three: not dry research, but affection that puts life-blood into the material. It is merely hoped that this column will give the reader an idea of what a great and wonderful place our metropolis of Boston really is.

 

"I found this collection of 89 Meet Boston articles, along with the manuscript of The Tribes and the States, in a suitcase belonging to Sidis's sister Helena. She had directed me to its location."―Dan Mahony

 

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