In 1742, the same year his hall was inaugurated, one of his ships, the Jolly Batchelor, sailed from Boston to Sierra Leone, returning with 20 kidnapped Africans. Faneuil lived just long enough to ...

Five years after veteran Eugene Roberts became the first athlete to complete the Boston Marathon in a wheelchair in 1970, per the Associated Press, Hall wrote a letter to race director Will Cloney ...

We lose the opportunity to speak of the good and bad of that person or, in this case, the history that has taken place in those precious few blocks of Boston. Renaming Faneuil Hall will do the ...

Boston Marathon and Patriots’ Day Parade ... Congress Street (north side, Faneuil Hall side), State Street to Hanover Street Hanover Street (both sides), Congress Street to Commercial Street ...

Before the Boston Marathon kicked off on Monday, one former competitor reflected on how his desire to race helped change the course of the event in the years to follow. Bob Hall, a pioneering ...

Here are 10 things to do in Boston for free this April. 1. Watch street performers at Faneuil Hall Marketplace While street performers entertain year-round, April’s warmer weather definitely ...

Bob Hall and Bill Rodgers were teammates training for the 1975 Boston Marathon — Rodgers on his feet, and Hall in his wheelchair. Rodgers would go on to win that year, the first of the four ...

A Boston City Hall employee has filed paperwork to run for mayor against Michelle Wu. Kerry Augustin, a 26-year-old community activist and receptionist who works for the city’s Age Strong ...

Matt Hall keeps busy, yet he finds a way to accomplish it all. The 54-year-old Worcester resident is running his second Boston Marathon on April 21, having hit the roads five times a week while ...