Did you know that the Back Bay was indeed once the Mill Basin...part of the Charles River?  Or that Fenway was meant to be Boston's next upper class neighborhood but never caught on (despite Isabella Stewart Gardner's elaborate home/museum and the MFA relocation)?  Or that Boston used to have three hills, two of which were completely cut down to be used as fill for a rapidly expanding city (Beacon Hill is the sole remainder)?

Join architect, city planner and MIT educator Susan Silberberg-Robinson and her husband Tom Robinson, architect, for cocktails, yummy Italian appetizers and a slide discussion of the fascinating history of Boston's development...complete with all the dirt of the political and power squabbles along the way...right up to the current times.  MIT students pay thousands in tuition for this experience (minus the cocktails of course)!