Oh you Red Sox

Yesterday the employees of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum were steps away from the Red Sox and Fenway Park when the first pitch was thrown at home for the Sox’s 2006 season. Long noted as a rather eccentric, er, crazy woman Isabella Stewart Gardner did have one thing right – a passion for the Olde Towne Team. After sporting a white headband with the words “Oh you Red Sox” written in red lettering to a BSO concert at Symphony Hall (audacity in 1912, today we seem to see folks with Red Sox hats pretty much every time we go to Symphony Hall – so much for fancy dress) Town Topics had this to say:

It looks as if the woman had gone crazy. With this band bound like a fillet around her auburn hair, she appeared in her conspicuous seat at a recent Saturday night Symphony Concert, almost causing a panic among those in the audience who discovered the ornamentation, and even for a moment upsetting Dr. Muck's men so that their startled eyes wandered from their music stands.

Yeah. We knew she was a little bit odd. You can visit her house turned museum where here eccentricity lives on with constraints on what can and can’t be changed with the layout, lighting, and installations in the museum. If you go between today and April 20, 2006 leave the fancy dress at home, don a Red Sox hat and get in for $2 off admission. An extra bonus – if your name is Isabella click here and sign up for free lifetime admission. We promise not to call you crazy.