Sculpture commemorates Boston's old "Neck"

The sculpture marks the border of what was once the Boston 'Neck', a narrow swath of land, barely 40 feet wide, that connected downtown Boston — then known as the Shawmut Peninsula — to the mainland.
Cara Bayles for Boston.com

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By Cara Bayles, Town Correspondent
The sculpture marks the border of what was once the Boston "Neck", a narrow swath of land, barely 40 feet wide, that connected downtown Boston — then known as the Shawmut Peninsula — to the mainland.