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Commonwealth Avenue

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Sep 26, 2026

Lars RolanderNARRATOR
29:17
I never hope to keep up with it, said her aunt.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
29:20
When I am safe back in Commonwealth Avenue and there is no dragoman to hustle me around, I'll have time to read about it all, and then I expect I shall begin to enthuse and want to come right back again.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
29:33
But it's just too good of you, Mr. Stevens, to try and keep us informed.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
29:38
I thought that you might wish precise information, and so I prepared a small digest of the matter, said Stevens, handing a slip of paper to Miss Sadie.

1 HR 52 MINS LATER

Lars RolanderNARRATOR
141:41
Then she pursed up her lips and shook her stern brown face in disapproval.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
141:46
But she pushed the little pistol into its hiding-place all the same, and she rode with her thoughts in a whirl.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
141:54
Could this indeed be she, Eliza Adams of Boston, whose narrow, happy life had oscillated between the comfortable house in Commonwealth Avenue and the Tremont Presbyterian Church? Here she was hunched upon a camel, with her hand upon the butt of a pistol, and her mind weighing the justifications of murder.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
142:18
Oh, life, sly, sleek, treacherous life, how are we ever to trust you? Show us your worst, and we can face it; but it is when you are sweetest and smoothest that we have most to fear from you.
Margery EaganHOST
18:56
Oh, my God.
Margery EaganHOST
18:57
And, and then, um, the, the food, somebody else is, is saying Butcher Boys, Commonwealth Avenue.
Liz RomanGUEST
19:02
Yes.
Margery EaganHOST
19:02
Pop Pops Greek burgers.
Ashley JaneNARRATOR
11:51
Thus, in all the Beacon Street house, there had not for years been the touch of a woman's hand.
Ashley JaneNARRATOR
11:56
Even Kate, the married sister, had long since given up trying to instruct Dong Ling or to chide Pete, though she still walked across the garden from her Commonwealth Avenue home and tripped up the stairs to call in turn upon her brothers, Bertram, William, and Cyril.
Ashley JaneNARRATOR
12:13
End of chapter two.
Ashley JaneNARRATOR
12:15
Recording by Ashley Jane.

1 HR 7 MINS LATER

speaker_4NARRATOR
79:35
"Very well, be as it may.
speaker_4NARRATOR
79:38
Anyhow, you're coming, and we shall want you all settled by dinner time," he finished as he picked up his hat to go.
speaker_4NARRATOR
79:47
With Kate, Billy spent the long day very contentedly in Kate's beautiful Commonwealth Avenue home.
speaker_4NARRATOR
79:55
The two boys, Paul, 12 years old, and Egbert, 8, were a little shy.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
26:41
I haven't got Abu Simbel and the wall pictures straight in my mind yet, though I saw them yesterday." "I never hope to keep up with it," said her aunt.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
26:52
"When I'm safe back in Commonwealth Avenue and there's no dragoman to hustle me around, I'll have time to read about it all, and then I expect I shall begin to enthuse and want to come right back again.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
27:05
But it's just too good of you, Mr. Stevens, to try and keep us informed." "I thought that you might wish precise information, and so I prepared a small digest of the matter," said Stevens, handing a slip of paper to Miss Sadie.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
27:21
She looked at it in the light of the deck lamp, and broke into her low, hearty laugh.

1 HR 45 MINS LATER

Lars RolanderNARRATOR
132:53
Then she pursed up her lips and shook her stern brown face in disapproval.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
132:59
But she pushed the little pistol into its hiding place all the same, and she rode with her thoughts in a whirl.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
133:06
Could this indeed be she, Eliza Adams of Boston, whose narrow happy life had oscillated between the comfortable house in Commonwealth Avenue and the Tremont Presbyterian Church? Here she was hunched upon a camel, with her hand upon the butt of a pistol, and her mind weighing the justifications of murder.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
133:30
Oh, life, sly, sleek, treacherous life, how are we ever to trust you? Show us your worst and we can face it, but it is when you are sweetest and smoothest that we have most to fear from you.
Liz CoxHOST
3:07
Oh yeah, definitely.
Liz CoxHOST
3:08
I was actually just in like the downtown Boston area and I don't make that track very often, but I was walking down like Commonwealth Ave and Beacon Hill and I was thinking the whole time like, oh wow, like these are a lot of our clients in these areas and it is such a cool walkable place.
Corey WakulowiczGUEST
3:28
It's amazing.
Corey WakulowiczGUEST
3:29
There's so many people and there's people from everywhere.
Rich ShertenliebHOST
3:53
Did they have a
Ken LairdHOST
3:54
brownstone for a while, though, down on Com Ave?
Rich ShertenliebHOST
3:56
They did.
Rich ShertenliebHOST
3:56
And every once in a while, you'd see Giselle walking around.
Rich ShertenliebHOST
3:58
You would see her, but you would never see him.
Rich ShertenliebHOST
4:01
And he was...
Rich ShertenliebHOST
4:02
Yeah, because remember, there was that one time he got in a car accident right there on Com Ave, and they had to think...
Rich ShertenliebHOST
4:07
I remember Jaws of Life was the term that they used to take him out.
Noah HarperGUEST
51:46
It could be cool to have seasonal ex- exhibitions or maybe some more interactive public art too.
Lee StabertHOST
51:53
Yeah, I mean, you think about, we only drove by, but there are those, those elephants on Commonwealth Ave.
Lee StabertHOST
51:57
I don't know if you've heard about those.
Noah HarperGUEST
51:59
Mm-hmm.
Doris ColeGUEST
30:58
She was a very wealthy woman.
Doris ColeGUEST
31:02
She had an estate out in Dover and a house on Commonwealth Avenue.
Doris ColeGUEST
31:11
Peabody was experimental, both in how she farmed and how she treated her workers and how she built.
Marianne HuntingGUEST
31:25
Eleanor started out working on the stables.
David WalesNARRATOR
23:44
I haven't got Abu Simbel and the wall-pictures straight in my mind yet, though I saw them yesterday.' I never hope to keep up with it," said her aunt.
David WalesNARRATOR
23:55
When I am safe back in Commonwealth Avenue, and there's no dragoman to hustle me around, I'll have time to read about it all, and then, I expect, I shall begin to enthuse and want to come right back again.
David WalesNARRATOR
24:09
But it's just too good of you, Mr. Stevens, to try and keep us informed." I thought that you might wish precise information, and so I prepared a small digest of the matter, said Stephens, handing a slip of paper to Miss Sadie.
David WalesNARRATOR
24:25
She looked at it in the light of the deck-lamp, and broke into her low, hearty laugh.

1 HR 39 MINS LATER

David WalesNARRATOR
123:49
Then she pursed her lips and shook her stern brown face in disapproval.
David WalesNARRATOR
123:55
but she pushed the little pistol into its hiding-place all the same, and she rode with her thoughts in a whirl.
David WalesNARRATOR
124:02
Could this indeed be she, Eliza Adams, of Boston, whose narrow, happy life had oscillated between the comfortable house in Commonwealth Avenue and the Tremont Presbyterian Church? Here she was, hunched upon a camel, with her hand upon the butt of a pistol, and her mind weighing the justifications of murder oh life sly sleek treacherous life how are we ever to trust you show us your worst and we can face it but it is when you're sweetest and smoothest that we have most to fear from you at the worst miss sadie It will only be a question of ransom," said Stevens, arguing against his own convictions.
David WalesNARRATOR
124:51
Besides, we are still close to Egypt, far away from the Dervish country.
Zeth LundyHOST
32:58
I was in college in Boston.
Zeth LundyHOST
33:00
I walked, uh, up Comm Ave from my dorm to a record store.
Zeth LundyHOST
33:06
It wasn't In Your Ear because In Your Ear did not have new, new CDs.
Zeth LundyHOST
33:10
They only did, they had used stuff, used records, used CDs, used tapes.
Zeth LundyHOST
33:15
But almost directly across Comm Ave from In Your Ear, was there not, like, a Strawberries? Or there was some sort of, like, major big box record store there.
Zeth LundyHOST
33:24
I think it was a Strawberries.
Zeth LundyHOST
33:26
That's where I bought Midnight Vultures.

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