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B.A.A. Half

Boston Athletic Association's Half Marathon.

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Why it matters

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Living object

Now, then, future

Every object is temporal: what it feels like now, what it used to mean, and what it can become next.

Now

quiet enough to notice details. Best now: one good detour.

Then

The older layer is mostly carried by nearby places and relationships.

Future

2026: America’s 250th — July 4, 2026.

Current modemidday
Historical echonearby
Connected eventAmerica’s 250th — July 4, 2026
Pulse

How it feels right now

Current energyquiet enough to notice details
Best nowone good detour
Best timemidday
Jamaica Plain
Rain scoremodest

Indoor escapes within a few blocks.

Laptop friendlinesslow

Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.

Student presencelow

How strongly the nearby graph reads as campus life.

Tourist pressurelow

Fame, landmark pull, and visitor-facing assets.

Historic densitylight

Older records and historical edges around this object.

Serendipityquiet

Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.

Turn this into a walk

Routes with a point of view

Make it walkableShow me the best 45 minutes from here

Turn the surrounding graph into a short, walkable next move.

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What should I see next?

Chosen moves from here

01The right next stopStony Brook Fine ArtsClose enough to feel spontaneous, different enough to change the texture of the visit.4 min walk02The connection you would miss on a mapJamaica PlainA civic relationship that is easier to understand once you see the graph.Neighborhood
The editor's hand

Human recommendations

The Civic Graph Editorial DeskEditorial standardLook for the older layer before you move on. This object is connected to more than its facade suggests.Samuel Gridley Howe →
Civic memory

What this meant before

1872Arnold ArboretumNorth America’s oldest public arboretum (1872) — 281 acres designed with Olmsted, owned by Harvard, free to all, and home to 16,000 catalogued plants including century-old bonsai.1984Samuel Adams BreweryWhere Jim Koch rebooted American craft beer in 1984 with his great-great-grandfather’s recipe — the JP research brewery still runs tours and a taproom.
Online
Official site ↗
Graph connections
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Plan your visit
Websitebaa.org/races/boston-half ↗
Get there
T · TransitUberLyftWalk

In the graph 1 relationships — first-class data, not links

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Located in
Jamaica Plain

Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk

Building / Landmark · 4 min walk

The Brewery

Museum / Cultural · 4 min walk

Stony Brook Fine Arts

Attraction · 5 min walk

Samuel Adams Brewery

An unexpected connection

B.A.A. Half is linked, through the graph, to Jamaica Plain — neighborhood, 12 min walk away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.

Keep exploring graph-powered — every path below is a real relationship, not a guess

NearbyA few minutes’ walk away
The BreweryBuilding / LandmarkStony Brook Fine ArtsMuseum / CulturalSamuel Adams BreweryAttraction
Also in Jamaica PlainShares a neighborhood
Arnold ArboretumPark / Public spaceThe Footlight ClubMuseum / CulturalOriginationMuseum / CulturalGhost Bike for Joseph Lee Alan PielmeierBuilding / LandmarkLoring-Greenough HouseMuseum / Cultural
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○Source qualityBest source is open reference
○Independent corroboration1 source
✓Human-reviewedEditorially verified
○Institutional backingNo primary source yet
○Record completeness20% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
OpenStreetMap relation/20582080 Open reference
The same entity, elsewhere
OpenStreetMaprelation/20582080Official sitehttps://www.baa.…
Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count
Relationship density13
1 connection
Record coverage34
metadata completeness
Graph authority12
centrality + reach + trust
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