From trip planning to time travel
When checking out the MBTA’s new trip planner, I did a search for transit services near my home. As a vast improvement from previous versions the results now include a map. On it I found a curious landmark: the Holy Ghost Hospital. Funny, I didn’t think a hospital with that name existed in Cambridge. A little bit of research unearthed the following facts: the Youville Hospital used to be called the Holy Ghost Hospital for the Incurables (now that will cheer you up!) until it was renamed in 1970 in memory of its founder, Marguerite D’Youville, incidentally the first Canadian born saint. How information this old made it onto a digital map copyrighted in 2007 beats me. But thanks for the history lesson anyways!