Eye on Travel with Peter Greenberg

An update from Boston: History, music, the Red Sox, and more

02.22.2023 - By CBS NewsPlay

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This week's Eye on Travel Podcast with Peter Greenberg -- from Boston, Massachusetts. As one of America’s oldest cities, there is no shortage of history here, and Bob Allison, Historian and Professor of History at Suffolk University talks about some of the city's fascinating and hidden history. Then, it's a conversation with the Director of the Boston Pops, Keith Lockhart for a conversation on the origin of the Pops and the legacy of its most famous conductor John Williams. Next up, Peggy Fogleman, Executive Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum -- one of America's best, stops by to discuss the legacy of the museum’s founder, its current exhibitions, and the ongoing mystery of the biggest (and still unsolved) museum art heist in history. Finally, batting clean up, we head to Fenway Park with Sarah Coffin, Team Curator of the Boston Red Sox - for some little known secrets of the team and its legendary players.

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