Coco-Marie Scura

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.

– Kaplana Chawla
Historic and symbolic pathways create an timeless connection in the City Upon A Hill: Boston, Massachusetts. In her freeing of thousands of slaves, Harriet Tubman created the pathway to a new life in a time when we needed a cultural and humanistic reset. Boston became the channel between then and now, and the historical monuments just like Harriet Tubman’s allow us to visualize all of the cultural snapshots in time, connecting the past, present, and future.

Despite being such an open and vast city, Boston contains an infinite amount of hidden pathways that provide its residents with the fleeting instance of isolation and peacefulness. The image here depicts a street in Mission Hill, housed by many college students of Northeastern University. Here, we see both the cultural and literal paths that intersect the city.

At Northeastern University, we see the evidence of our unpredictable weather: the glassy surfaces from the black ice on campus. Still, campus–and the city–is alive with people, connecting through the distaste for the unpredictable weather and the resentful feeling that results.