Seeing as how Jay Fitzgerald at Hub Blog is shamelessly trying to drive traffic to his blog via his "Shark Week" post, the City Record and Boston News-Letter is compelled to remind its readers that the Museum of Fine Arts has an excellent depiction of a historic shark attack in its collection, John Singleton Copley's 1778 masterpiece "Watson and the Shark". Brook Watson survived the shark attack and went on to become Lord Mayor of London and commissioned Copley to create the painting. Copley's name remains in Boston's history as "Copley Square", the reasons for which J. L. Bell explores over at Boston 1775. And to complete the circle, the MFA's location was in Copley Square before moving out Huntington Avenue. To quote the A-Team's Hannibal Smith: "I love it when a plan [or blog post, ed.] comes together!"
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You're now number three.
I'll have you know that although I'm not even cool enough to get onto the first page of google hits, I am the number one hit for "boston shark attack smoot" (without the quotes).
Interestingly, if you google ""Boston shark attack,"" Hub Blog and I come up, but you don't! Your post doesn't have that exact text string in it. I'm sure, however, that if I googled "Bostowne ye olde sharke attacke," you'd win hands down.
Posted by: eeka | 12 August 2007 at 11:08