Friday 13 November 2015
On the local Boston National Public Radio station the morning after the attacks on Paris, reportage detailing the attacks was followed by local stories about the outpouring of sympathy for France and for Parisians from New England. Flowers were placed outside the French Consulate in downtown Boston. (A solidarity rally on the Boston Commons will take place today at noon, in a few hours.) Another story detailed the heightened security in Boston, especially at Logan International Airport, from which numerous daily flights to Charles de Gaulle Airport originate. Out at the fraying edge of the metropolis in Worcester the response to the tragedy is less pronounced, but nonetheless our thoughts are with the City of Light as Paris and its inhabitants grieve.
