Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All the while, Boston, my hometown, remained the punchline. If our neighbor to the south, New York City, was long known as "the ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. It’s the first weekend of spring, and after ...