Lucius Beebe

'Mellow and mature'

Park Street, Boston, looking toward the State House.

Park Street, Boston, looking toward the State House.

"Boston does not represent the quintessential excellence of all the world's cities synthesized into a paradigm of urban beauty and virtue, but it is a place at once characteristic, mellow and mature, and possessed of many qualities not entirely divorced from charm."

— Lucius Beebe (1902-1966), historian, columnist, travel writer, gourmand and inventor of the phrase “Cafe Society.’’ He was a native of Wakefield, Mass., where his remains are buried, but made his national name as a journalist in New York City and California. He became America’s most famous railroad expert/writer.