Brookline Re-visited.

5-20-23 SHORT HILLS: Thursday we drove to Boston for Maggie’s graduation from Boston U. with her MSW. The graduation was in the afternoon at the Hockey Arena in the heart of BU-ville on the Boston side of the Charles River. BU extends for blocks and blocks from Back Bay to Allston, mostly between Commonwealth Ave and the river. 

We have been to many, many graduations beginning with our own and our children’s and our grandchildren’s and now our grandchildren’s graduate school graduations. It is thrilling to see your child or grandchild get their diploma and, now, their hood, but boring to watch everyone else’s relative do the same thing, and the speeches—zzs-town for the most part. 

Afterwards we drove down to Boston harbor where Val and Steve are staying, admired their hotel, and then the five of us went to dinner at Lucia to celebrate the graduation.  

Judy an I were staying in Brookline at a hotel on Beacon Street not far from where we lived in the early 60’s when we were both BU students, Judy an undergrad and me in med school. On our way out of town the next morning, we visited the street where we lived back then. It is totally gentrified, we hardly recognized the neighborhood, but took pix of ‘our’ building. 

While we were in Boston, Lily graduated from NYU Law School, and Lucy graduated from NYU French Institute with a Masters. Lucy goes to France soon to do research for her thesis in Paris. Lily will soon be working for a big law firm. Maggie will be returning to NYC after a decade in Boston. 

New blooms: English holly, Japanese snowball, tree peony.

Academic procession in the hockey arena.

Maggie with Hood and Diploma case.

Smiles all around now that it's over.

Dinner at Lucia.

Judy at 34 Garrison Rd. Our apt was the middle one.

The front door to our building. That is my BUSM alumni hat.