Five Fun Facts about Boston:
• Boston is home to the first underground subway system, public library, and public park in America.
• The Boston University (BU) Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train, which is moving under a car, driving under an airplane.
• South Boston holds the city’s biggest Saint Patrick’s Day parade, holding true to its Irish roots.
• Louis Prang printed the first American Christmas card in Boston in 1876.
• Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the first American telephone in Boston in 1875.
Famous People from Boston:
James Abbott, Henry Adams, Samuel Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Alexander, Ed Ames, Alexander Graham Bell, Elizabeth Bishop, Tom Brady, John Singleton Copley, Emily Dickinson, Olympia Dukakis, Bob Elliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edith Fellows, Arthur Fiedler, Alvan Fisher, Arlene Francis, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Frost, Nathan Hale, Frederick Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Madeleine Kahn, Jack Kerouac, Amy Lawrence Lowell, Robert Lowell, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Treat Paine, Robert B. Parker, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Revere, Donna Summer, James Taylor, Mark Wahlberg, Barbara Walters, McNeill Whistler
Local Slang:
Beantown – Boston
The Cape – Cape Cod
Frappe – A milkshake when ice cream is used
Fro yo – Frozen yogurt
Grinder – Submarine sandwich
Nor'easter – Snowstorm
P-town – Provincetown, Massachusetts
Packie – A liquor store
Southie – South Boston
The Vineyard – Martha’s Vineyard
Wicked – Very or cool