The following is a guest post by Emmy-Award-winning engineer Mark Schubin. He has been writing about the intersecting histories of opera and media technology since 1972 and currently serves as engineer-in-charge of the Metropolitan Opera’s Media Department. In October 2011, Mark gave a presentation at the Library on the “Fandom of the Opera: How a …
The 30th Olympiad of the Modern Era, aka London 2012, is here! This is the third time London has hosted the Olympics. The first time was in 1908 (4th Olympiad) and the second was in 1948 (14th Olympiad). I thought it would be fun to examine how the Olympics have changed in the past 100 years , so I’m going to …
Without looking at today’s photo, can you use the following clues to figure out what today is? The Green Monster Duffy’s Cliff The Triangle Williamsburg The Lone Red Seat The Splendid Splinter Pesky’s Pole Sweet Caroline Curse of the Bambino The Snodgrass Muff One hundred years ago today Fenway Park had its first professional game …