Beneath the Streets of Boston: Building America’s First Subway

Recommended Grade: 4-7

Intro
In stunning artwork, and through a fascinating and historically accurate narrative of Boston’s “Big Dig” and lively first-hand accounts of the turn-of-the-century public’s perception of the underground public transportation, including their fears, let’s enter the subterranean realm of workers who dug miles of tunnels by hand and build the system as a model for the rest of the country.