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Forget the Freedom Trail; she's working on the Giant Heads Trail
By adamg on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 9:36pm
Eeka, who wants to be a tour guide when she grows up, is putting together a list of Boston's Giant Heads, from the Creepy Baby Heads outside the MFA to the Sphinxy Arthur Fiedler Head on the Esplanade.
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Summer Shack at Alewife
It's not quite in Boston, but I think the Summer Shack restaurant at Alewife still has the giant head outside. (It used to be a tiki back when the Aku Aku restaurant was in that building.)
not a head
That's not, strictly speaking, a head; it's got the body from at least the waist up. And I think eeka disqualified at least one bit of statuary because it was a bust, rather than a head.
And because it was in
And because it was in Cambridge. She's a stickler for her heads.
Overachiever...
...trying to get a head in this world, eh?
Missing head
There is also the melon of Donald McKay over in the Bremmen Street Park in East Boston (easily accessible from the Airport Blue Line stop).
Don't worry, I won't let this catch go to my head.