The Ether Monument in Boston’s Public Garden.Celerity26 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA The claim on the monument is untrue, but it’s hard to change something carved in granite. I also question Mass. General’s claim for the “first public demonstration” of the...
The Ether Monument’s Good Samaritan Most cities don’t have one secular statue of the Good Samaritan so it’s a tad unusual that Boston has two. They are very different, however. One statue holds a prominent place in the Public Garden while the other is hidden in a medical center on t...