The Boston Traveler

If you thought Cambridge’s Bastille Day Block Party in Harvard Square this weekend was the only festive celebration of the French holiday in the Boston area, you are incorrect. On Monday, July 14, the actual date the holiday falls on, South End nightspot The Beehive (541 Tremont Street, Boston, 617-423-0069) will hold yet another Bastille Day event from 5pm to 2am.
Called Bee- Musette at St. Germain des près, the affair is co-sponsored by the French Consulate of Boston, the French Library, TV5 Monde, and Les Champagne Mumm, giving it a level of authenticity that goes far beyond the norm. …read more

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Although the French national holiday Bastille Day officially takes place on July 14, Boston residents and visitors will get to celebrate it early when Harvard Square hosts a marathon block party this Sunday, July 13, to commemorate the start of the French Revolution in 1789.
The assorted activities scheduled during the family-oriented event include attractions for children, ranging from a parade with the one and only Curious George to face painting, as well as highlights for adults, such as scrumptious French cuisine provided by Sandrine’s Bistro, Chez Henri, Brasserie Jo, the Elephant Walk, Rialto, and Petit Robert.
Attendees will also have a …read more

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File this under FASCINATING.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has once again made history. In December 1954, future Nobel Prize winner Dr. Joseph Murray performed the world’s first successful human organ transplant there when he transplanted a kidney from 23-year-old Ronald Herrick to his seriously ill identical twin brother Richard Herrick. The Harvard Medical School Professor of Surgery Emeritus later went on to pioneer allografts, tissue and organ transplants between genetically different individuals of the same species, in 1959 and cadaveric renal transplants in 1962.
Now Brigham and Women’s Hospital is back in the international headlines. The New …read more

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