The present’s curator is the Athenaeum’s Christina Michelon.
David W. Butterfield, “Ruins of the Nice Hearth of Boston,” 1872.Boston Athenaeum
“Revisiting” contains some 70 gadgets. They embrace, as one would possibly anticipate, pictures, work, prints, and a map. There are additionally 36 stereographs. A stereograph is a pair of very comparable pictures which, when considered via a stereoscope, give an phantasm of depth. In a visitor-friendly contact, three viewers can be found to be used.
“Reviewing” additionally consists of issues one won’t anticipate: a key to a constructing destroyed within the fireplace, a militia cross permitting the bearer entry to the burnt district, an adolescent’s journal, a bit of sheet music, and a “relic” of the fireplace: a bit of once-melted metallic, wrapped in newsprint and string. It’s like a gift one would possibly discover in Vulcan’s Christmas stocking. Better of all, in an impressed curatorial flourish, the fireplace alarm within the gallery (a Simplex TrueAlert) will get a wall label. It’s a reminder of the continuity between Boston then and Boston now — and of how far fireplace prevention has come.
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A cross for entry into the burnt district after the Nice Boston Hearth of 1872.Boston Athenaeum
The title “Revisiting the Ruins” has a double that means. It describes what the present is doing but in addition what lots of the works within the present have been doing. Solely James Wells Champney’s pencil sketch “Rooftop View of the Nice Boston Hearth, November 10, 1872″ was made as the fireplace was occurring. This implies the present is as a lot concerning the fireplace’s aftermath as the fireplace itself. That will appear to be an odd distinction immediately, when information media function in actual time. Again then, technological limitations dictated in any other case.
James Wells Champney, “Rooftop View of the Nice Boston Hearth, November 10, 1872.”Boston Athenaeum
To offer only one instance, newspapers and magazines as but didn’t have the means to breed pictures. Fairly, an engraving could be made out of {a photograph}, and that’s what readers would see. The present presents each James Wallace Black’s panoramic view of the devastation and an illustration carefully derived from it which ran in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.
That weekly journal was based mostly in New York. Protection of the fireplace prolonged so far as England and France. The Nov. 30, 1872, subject of The Illustrated London Information ran three engravings of the fireplace based mostly on Black’s work. Each the images and the engravings are on show.
James Wallace Black, “Devonshire St. Trying In direction of Publish Workplace,” 1872.Boston Athenaeum
Black’s 13 pictures are the guts of the present. They’re easy and unflinching. The city moonscape they seize appears like nothing a lot as a conflict zone. The presence within the present of {a photograph} Alexander Gardner had taken seven years earlier of Richmond in ruins underscores the resemblance. Recollections of the Civil Struggle will need to have been in lots of Bostonians’ minds, in addition to an consciousness of a newer occasion. The Nice Chicago Hearth had taken place simply 13 months earlier than.
Astonishingly, reconstruction was accomplished inside two years (a superb a part of the rubble was used as landfill in Boston Harbor and to increase Atlantic Avenue). A lot of downtown hadn’t been destroyed, in fact. The steeple of Outdated South Assembly Home is seen in a number of pictures. And the fireplace was contained simply two blocks from the Athenaeum.
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Tira Khan, “Patched and Spackled,” 2023.Tira Khan
A really totally different type of reconstruction is on show in Tira Khan’s “Studying the Room: Reconstructing the Boston Athenaeum,” which runs via Might 13. Khan’s eight pictures are very good-looking, with a fullness of shade that’s virtually tactile.
Her purpose was to doc the library’s current renovation. “Patched and Spackled” isn’t a title one would usually affiliate with a view of the Athenaeum’s inside, although others, like “Circulation” and “The Paper Room” one would. These pictures, not not like that fire-alarm wall label in “Revisiting the Ruins,” testify to continuity, on this case institutional.
REVISITING THE RUINS: The Nice Boston Hearth of 1872
READING THE ROOM: Reconstructing the Boston Athenaeum
At: Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon St., via July 29 and Might 13, respectively. 617-227-0270, bostonathenaeum.org
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Mark Feeney could be reached at mark.feeney@globe.com.
A huge fourth quarter by Camryn Tade helped the Army West Point Black Knights women’s basketball team rally from a deficit to defeat Boston U, 59-52, on Saturday in Boston.
The Black Knights (13-3, 5-1 Patriot) have won two straight games since they fell to Lehigh a weekend ago and dropped from the ranks of the undefeated teams in the league.
Now, Army is tied for first place with both Navy and Holy Cross at 5-1 going into next week’s games. Lehigh is a half-game back at 4-1.
The Black Knights started the fourth quarter down 46-38. Tade came to the rescue, as she scored 11 of her 18 points in the final 10 minutes.
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She got to work 40 seconds into the quarter with a 3-pointer that cut the lead to five points.
After several empty possessions, Tade struck again with another 3-pointer to push the Black Knights within two points, 46-44, with 7:30 left.
The Terriers remained in the lead as they and the Black Knights traded free throws before Army took the lead, thanks against to Tade. Her lay-up with 5:25 left put Army in the lead, 48-47.
From there, the Black Knights remained ahead. A Fiona Hastick lay-up pushed the lead to three points, followed by a 3-pointer by Tade with 3:32 left that made it 53-47 Army.
Boston (7-10, 1-5) never got any closer.
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The Terriers controlled the game in the first half, as they took a 10-9 lead after the first quarter and then pushed that lead to 25-15 at halftime. Army surged to 23 points in the third quarter, but Boston hung in there by scoring 21 points before the Black Knights outscored the Terriers, 21-6, in the final stanza.
Tade made four 3-pointers for the game, three of which came in the fourth quarter. She also had seven rebounds and two blocked shots. Trinity Hardy led Army with 21 points, along with eight rebounds, one assist, one block and one steal.
Reese Ericson hit some key free throws down the stretch, as she went 6-fot-6 from the line for the game and finished with nine points. She also had four assists.
Inés Monteagudo led Boston with 12 points, while Allison Schwertner added 11 points.
Next week is critical for Army’s Patriot League Tournament seeding as it will face Holy Cross on Wednesday and Navy on Sunday. The Black Knights already have a loss to Lehigh, so they can ill-afford a loss to either the Crusaders or their rivals, the Midshipmen.
A prominent Boston-area doctor accused in several lawsuits of sexually assaulting more than 200 former patients was indicted by a grand jury on rape charges.
Dr. Derrick Todd allegedly assaulted two women during examinations in December 2022 and June 2023 at the Charles River Medical Associates in Framingham, Mass., the Middlesex County District Attorney announced Thursday.
Todd, a rheumatologist, appeared in Middlesex Superior Court Friday after he handed himself over to police the previous night.
Dr. Derrick Todd is arraigned in Middlesex County Superior Court after he was indicted on rape charges on Jan. 17, 2025. AP
The two women had either a pelvic exam or pap smear with the doctor when the alleged assault occurred, NBC Boston reported.
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The patients alleged the exams went beyond “normal.”
One of the women endured enough pain for her to scream at Todd to stop but the doctor didn’t listen and continued the exam.
The second patient alleged she didn’t give Todd consent to perform the specific examination but the doctor went ahead despite the rejection, the outlet reported.
Todd pleaded not guilty to the two rape charges.
He was held on a $10,000 bail.
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Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston, where Todd worked for 14 years. Google Maps
A judge ordered Todd to surrender his passport, not have any contact with his alleged victims, and give up all medical licenses.
Claims of abuse from Todd date back to 2010 but only surfaced in 2023 after Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital received anonymous complaints.
Todd is the former chief of clinical rheumatology at the Boston hospital but resigned after 14 years in 2023 when two other physicians questioned the appropriateness of pelvis exams for his rheumatology patients, the Boston Globe reported.
Over 200 of Todd’s former patients accused him of performing unnecessary pelvic floor therapy, breast examinations, testicular examinations, and rectal examinations.
The accusers include over 200 women and several men between teenagers and 60-year-olds.
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Attorneys for 180 of the former patients say the two rape charges are just the start of the doctor’s legal battle.
“It’s just the beginning of the criminal case against Dr. Todd, but it does help validate the civil claims that Lubin & Meyer is pursuing on behalf of so many of his former patients,” Attorney William Thompson said. “Fundamentally, it’s about a doctor abusing his position. And taking advantage of patients who put their trust in him for his own personal sexual gratification.”
Over 200 of Todd’s former patients accused him of performing unnecessary pelvic floor therapy, breast examinations, testicular examinations, and rectal examinations. LinkedIn
Todd voluntarily ceased his medical practice in Massachusetts in September 2023.
The announcement was made in a letter to the Board of Registration in Medicine.
The class-action lawsuit against Todd also listed the hospital as a defendant for allegedly knowing about the abuse and failing to stop it.
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