Save me from Boston

“I care a great deal to prevent myself from becoming what of all things I despise, a Boston prig…Anything which takes a man morally out of Beacon Street, Nahant and Beverly Farms, Harvard College and the Boston press, must be in itself a good.’’

— Henry Adams (1838-1918), American historian and biographer and member of the famous Adams family of Massachusetts. His autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, is considered a classic of American literature.

The Henry Cabot Lodge House in Nahant, which for many years was a summer colony for Boston Brahmins.