Located on the corner of Peabody and Congress are the stacked containers and incredible art display…read morethat screamed totem. How happy to find out that is the title. The bright colors simply draw you in, powerful spirituality emanates. All the faces of spirit guides and ancestors seem to gaze upon you and your hope takes flight! Art can invoke so many emotions, so many images beyond what you are seeing with your own eyes. This one is a treasure. Title: Totem Where: Corner of Peabody and Congress Artist: Ledania Medium: Spray Paint Date: July, 2019

This was between buildings- as were plenty of murals. I could spot it from Ward Street- but it was…read moretechnically on Peabody street. The 3 faces of the same (I believe) man was colored blue- gray and then red with different angles of the face. Like turning or changing perspectives. Honestly it invoked the thoughts of maturing, or changing your mind about life priorities. Evolving. Title: Stranger Things Where: 38 Peabody St Artist: Jeff Henriquez Medium: Spray Paint Date: September, 2017

This mural is right next to the Policebots mural on the side of a parking garage off Congress St…read more The mask of the lady liberty's face is both disconcerting and insightful, the many figures of people turned in different directions- the combination of the two. Like all of us are Lady Liberty or none of us are- it's all fake. The Statue of Liberty is supposed to be the gateway for immigration- I can imagine the ships sailing past full of people who endured the seas to come to America. Land of the free where nothing is actually free. Wow~ that's a deep dive that just keeps going! I love art and all the thoughts it can provoke- even if some are not happy thoughts and feeling. Art that can get you thinking or feeling is powerful indeed. Untitled Where: 10 Congress St Artist: HYURO Medium: Acrylic Paint Date: July, 2019

This is all Billy Bass gate and he lives in the bushes right outside the lobster shanty. This is…read moresome kind of lost public art but I'm not sure what they were going with but I like it. Salem has many weird unique awesome features and this is just one of them. This is just all Billy Bathgate hiding in the bushes looking out trying to scare children and the people to walk bye pretty cool

On Boylston st. Just south where the Boston Public garden & Boston Common meet you can find the…read moreEdgar Allan Poe statue. Another cool statue that you can stumble upon just walking through Boston. During the Boston marathon weekend this one of the statues the city put a participant bib on. The only one statue I saw with a bib was the Democratic Donkey by old city hall. Makes me wonder how many statues in the city does Boston put bibs on during marathon weekend.

I've been a huge fan of Edgar Allan Poe's writings since middle school. Re-reading his stories is…read moresomething I never get bored doing. For that reason, this statue holds a special place in my heart (as I'm sure it is for thousands more like me who love his literature). It's a beautifully designed bronze sculpture created by Stefanie Rocknak in 2014. It is located at the Edgar Allan Poe Square. As he was originally from Boston, it seems a fitting tribute to his memory.

Who doesn't love elephants? Pachyderms! I left a shop disappointed and turned the corner and was…read moresurprised by the murals all around- this one being one of the first ones I saw! The entire side of the building lined with elephants parading! The detail was great- the black, white and gray tones give a sense that the mural has been there for a while, not sharp contrasts like some other murals- but a artistic grace that feels timeless. I wish I could find more information on this mural- artist, time it was painted, etc.

One of many murals in Salem. This one is of about four or five different elephants just kind of…read morehanging out doing elephant things. So they are our wall And there is no description of why they are on this wall or what they are doing but I like it because I like all the murals and things that Salem has to offer to make the city colorful

Located in front of the Sharon Public Library, this monument is tribute to Deborah Sampson…read more(1760-1827). Deborah Sampson became a hero of the American Revolution when she disguised herself as a man and joined the Patriot forces. She was the only woman to earn a full military pension for participation in the Revolutionary army. Born on December 17, 1760 in Plympton, Massachusetts near Plymouth, Sampson was one of seven children to Jonathan Sampson Jr. and Deborah (Bradford) Sampson. At age 18 she worked as a teacher during summer sessions in 1779 and 1780 and as a weaver in winter. In 1782, as the Revolutionary War raged on, the patriotic Sampson disguised herself as a man named Robert Shurtleff and joined the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment. At West Point, New York, she was assigned to Captain George Webb's Company of Light Infantry. She was given the dangerous task of scouting neutral territory to assess British buildup of men and materiel in Manhattan, which General George Washington contemplated attacking. In June of 1782, Sampson and two sergeants led about 30 infantrymen on an expedition that ended with a confrontation--often one-on-one--with Tories. She led a raid on a Tory home that resulted in the capture of 15 men. At the siege of Yorktown she dug trenches, helped storm a British redoubt, and endured canon fire. For over two years, Sampson's true sex had escaped detection despite close calls. When she received a gash in her forehead from a sword and was shot in her left thigh, she extracted the pistol ball herself. She was ultimately discovered--a year and a half into her service--in Philadelphia, when she became ill during an epidemic, was taken to a hospital, and lost consciousness. Receiving an honorable discharge on October 23, 1783, Sampson returned to Massachusetts. On April 7, 1785 she married Benjamin Gannet from Sharon, and they had three children, Earl, Mary, and Patience. She received a military pension from the state of Massachusetts. Although Sampson's life after the army was mostly typical of a farmer's wife, in 1802 she began a year-long lecture tour about her experiences--the first woman in America to do so--sometimes dressing in full military regalia. A true hero and a story I've never heard before. [Review 15255 overall, 757 of 2021, number 1114 in Massachusetts.]

I don't usually review landmarks, but if frickin' santacon gets a local flavor listing, then the…read moreDorchester giant copper pear should too. This square has a bunch of random bits of art strewn about, including the notorious giant pear. It's kind of upsetting with this pock-marked wrinkly skin and weirdly long stem. But somehow all its weirdness just makes it that much more endearing. Kind of like Dorchester. I wouldn't say come here for the pear, but in the middle of eating at all the awesome little places around here, wouldn't stop to admire this, well, whatever it is.

We decided to walk around MIT while we were in Boston. The campus itself is gorgeous and some of…read morethe building seem like a work of art themselves. There are art statues scattered all over campus and it is almost like a scavenger hunt trying to find them all. My favorite was right across from the one of their main building son Mass Ave. it is a sculpture of an outline of a man sitting and he is made of letters and numbers.

It exists within the MIT campus with little pretense; the Public Art Collection is full of…read moresurprises.