Massachusetts
TODD ENGLISH,
chef: “I love Boston
for so many reasons,
but I think the way it
continues to change
and still stay rooted
in history and the arts
is what makes it such
an interesting and
innovative place.”
MING TSAI, chef:
“The best part about
living in Boston is the
Red Sox. No doubt. I
am a season-ticket
holder and that’s
money well spent.”
REBECCA MILLER, director
and author: “Roxbury people
tend to be pretty open-minded
and basically gentle. When
I grew up, it was more of a
farming community.
There were also quite a
few artists. We all just
lived together.”
i
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Doris Kearns
Goodwin is
a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.
She lives in
Concord, Mass.
Falling in Love Again
was so heartbroken when my beloved Brooklyn Dodgers
abandoned us for Los Angeles that I resolved never to follow
baseball again. That resolution ended when my boyfriend
took me to Fenway Park not long after I arrived at Harvard
graduate school. There it was again: the entrance up the
darkened ramp disclosing an expanse of amazing green, the
fervent crowd contained in a stadium scaled to human dimensions,
the players so close it almost seemed that you could touch them, the
eccentric features of an old ballpark constructed to fit the contours of
the allotted space. I could not get away. Addiction or obsession, love or
need, I was born a baseball fan and a baseball fan I was
fated to be. I fell hopelessly in love with the Boston Red
Sox, and after holding season tickets for almost three
decades, witnessing painful losses year after year and
exulting in two World Series wins, I remain an irratio-
nal Red Sox fan!
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
TSAI/LEANNA CREEL; FEN WA Y/ELAN FLEISHER/AGE FO TOS TOCK; MILLER/GE T TY IMAGES;
