THE BOSTONIANS
The City That Keeps Reinventing America.
Boston has always been more than a city—it is an engine of ideas. The Bostonians celebrates the remarkable men and women born within its neighborhoods whose influence reached far beyond New England. Writers, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, painters, poets, activists, and visionaries found their beginnings here before reshaping culture around the world. Some became household names, others remain hidden in the margins of history, but together they reveal a city whose greatest export has never been tea, textiles, or technology—it has been imagination. The Bostonians is Motherlode's ongoing exploration of the people who carried a piece of Boston with them wherever their work took them.
Boston gave the world Edgar Allan Poe; the rest of the world has been living with his nightmares ever since.
Boston gave Black Francis his first audience; he gave alternative rock a new vocabulary.
With Gang Starr, Guru helped redefine hip-hop by proving that wisdom could be as powerful as swagger.
Before New Edition conquered the world, Bobby Brown was another kid from Boston with impossible ambition.
No one painted the power of the American coast more truthfully than Boston's Winslow Homer.
Boston didn't just give us Freddy K—Freddy K has spent decades giving Boston its soundtrack.
Before he became Ram Dass, Richard Alpert was a Boston boy who helped change the way America thought about consciousness.
Few Bostonians have introduced the world to more extraordinary music than Joe Boyd.
Every city has its light. Childe Hassam taught America how to see Boston's.
Every city has its quiet voices. Boston found one of its finest in Dominic Falcone.
POLITICS
WENDELL PHILLIPS
When Wendell Phillips spoke, America listened—even when it didn't want to.
Laura Poitras reminds us that the camera can be one of democracy's most powerful witnesses.
Every great photographer changes the way we see the world. Alvin Langdon Coburn changed the way photography saw itself.
Every generation rediscovers Louise Imogen Guiney—and wonders why she was ever forgotten
Boston gave Hollywood one of its most unforgettable screen presences in Uma Thurman.
