A Life On Beacon Hill: An Unauthorized History of Phillips Street

In this, the third iteration of the author’s memoir, he recounts how he came to live and raise a family on Beacon Hill. In historical asides he recounts the myriad events that shaped colonial Boston so that the city’s path and his life would converge at a building on Phillips Street on the North Slope of Beacon Hill more than three centuries after the city’s founding in 1630. The story details how the author made his way from a small town north of Boston to the center of the city, and came to renovate two building on Phillips Street, and how the street has changed in these past fifty years.