Main reading room of the Boston Public Library, one of the world’s greatest libraries and research centers.
— Photo by Brian Johnson
“In the Boston Public Library on Boylston Street, where all the
bums come in stinking from the cold,
There was one who had a battered loose-leaf book he used to
scribble in for hours on end.’’
-- From “The Critic,’’ by C.K. Williams (1936-2015)
