the quinobequin review
be where your feet are.
Stories from Greater Boston
We are living in an age of incredible mobility. People relocate all the time, by choice or by necessity. Tracts of land that once took generations to cross can be traversed by plane within hours. We are gig-economy nomads, long-distance lovers, FaceTimers, gamers, online shoppers and live-streamers. Our access to information is unparalleled, but our sense of home has eroded. In a time when loneliness has become endemic, it is more important than ever to reconnect with where we live.
Here we are in the Charles River Watershed.
Come home.
print only
The Q Review is something you can hold in your hands; a call back to the physical in a world that is always online.
hyper-local
We hate chain-store globalized monoculture (sorry, Seaport) and want to preserve what makes Greater Boston unique.
rooted in the landscape
Learning about the land we’re on encourages us to be better stewards. To know a place is to love it, and to love a place is to care for it.
Quinobequin (kwin-OH-buh-kin) is the first known name for the Charles River. For thousands of years, the Massachusett, Wampanoag, and Nipmuc peoples have lived in relationship with this land. “Quinobequin” means something close to “meandering” in the Massachusset language and is an acknowledgement to these first and ongoing caretakers.