As I was walking from the grocery store back home, I noticed that the side of Macy's Liquors (one of the many liquor stores on Centre St, not the department store chain) has a mural of a farm. Without context, it seems so anathematic. Why on earth would a liquor store have a mural of a farm on it in the city of Boston?
I can't be positive about why, but after a little investigating, here's my guess:
The neighborhood was home to an experimental transcendentalist Utopia community called Brook Farm, which attracted notable figures like Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne whose 1852 novel A Blithedale Romance, is based on his stay there.
I got that from Wikipedia, and then checked the sources (AS EVERYONE MUST DO WHEN IT COMES TO READING THINGS ON WIKIPEDIA) with the U S Register of National Historic Places, American Utopia listing. So, I think that that mural is a nod to the history of the neighborhood. I'm going to the library on Monday. Maybe they'll know.
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