Today in the CBO
The View from the BMU
by Nat Wright-Kawolski
12 July 2298 – Trinity Plaza
On certain Tuesdays for the 2297 and 2298 seasons, we will feature one of the settlements where teams in the Boston Minor Union play.
In our seventeenth trip around the BMU, we will go back downtown to an eyesore and a nice park next to a historic church, Trinity Plaza.
The Church and the Tower
According to one terminal entry, "This plaza was founded in 1733 and later hosted Trinity Church (finished in 1877). The church became overshadowed by the monolithic Trinity Tower to the southeast. . . . Trinity Plaza is an outdoor area centrally located between Trinity Church to the east, the Boston Public Library to the west and Trinity Tower to the south."
Trinity Church
According to a terminal about the Tower, "Standing at thirty stories tall, Trinity Tower was one of Boston's tallest skyscrapers, located on the south side of Trinity Plaza in West Boston. Trinity Tower was devastated by the Great War but remained standing, and has been damaged further by the subsequent two centuries of exposure to the elements."
Trinity Tower
By the time Nate arrived to the area just east of Diamond City in 2288, it was overrun by super mutants. Nate even had to make a long climb up the Tower to rescue WRVR's Rex Goodman and a friendly super mutant named Strong. Well, "friendly" is an operative word here; basically, Strong did not want to eat Nate or Rex. Instead, he only wants to find the "milk of human kindness." To this day, Strong, whose whereabouts are unknown, is probably still seeking that "human milk" like Rex Goodman taught him in "Mack Beth."
The Plaza as the Field
Boston Public Library serves as a tourist attraction and part of the Trinity Plaza settlement.
Settlers began populating the area right after Nate was able to rid the Trinity area, as well as Boston Public Library, of the super mutant infestation. Boston Public Library and the Trinity Church have become staples of pre-War information with the large volumes of intact pre-War books and terminal entries. This reporter uses the Boston Public Library for nearly every history of the Commonwealth story, including this one. Not far away to the east is the original Hubris Comics where some of the HCU series shows are sound recorded and indoor scenes are filmed.
The Plaza was once a large open area park with a large but damaged statue of one of America's founding fathers, George Washington (pictured above). Now the statue has been moved closer to the church and the Plaza serves as the open area for Memory Den Field, the baseball park for the Trinity Plaza Snipers.
A nicer view of the Plaza minus the "eyesore"
The Tower is mostly in ruins and there is concern that it could one day collapse, which would probably mean the end for Trinity Church and Trinity Plaza. Nate and a team from the Brotherhood of Steel and the Institute have looked into means of using pre-War methods of dynamiting the building where it would either collapse straight down or away from the church. Whatever might happen, the Tower would cause considerable damage to the read and ruin other functional buildings. Further research is going into the proper way to dispose of the "eyesore of the Plaza."