Picture Boston: Our Most Memorable Photos of 2020

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Boston awakens to a beheaded Christopher Columbus statue on June 10.
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Boston artist Rob Gibbs finishes a painting of Dr. Martin Luther king, Jr. at the Melnea Residences on Sept. 25.
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Doctors and nurses from Massachusetts General Hospital briefly left the hospital to lend their support at a Black Lives Matter protest at the State House on May 31.
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A voter hands her ballot to a Boston Municipal Police officer who, along with his partner, is collecting ballots from a full ballot box at the Boston Public Library on Nov. 3.
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A masked-up Bobby Orr statue on Causeway St. in Boston on April 29.
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A unique way to keeping social distance in Jamaica Plain on May 4.
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Revere Mayor Brian Arrigo, with bullhorn in hand, drives up and down Revere beach Boulevard warning residents to keep their distance due to an upsurge in COVID-19 cases on March 28.
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The New England Patriots team airplane, carrying a huge supply of hospital grade PPE for the fight against COVID-19, lands at Logan Airport on April 2.
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May 1. Flowers on a rainy day, at Boston Public Garden on May 1.
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The Faulkner Mills is framed by foliage, in Billerica on Oct. 20.
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The moon is seen shortly before sunrise along Revere Beach on Oct. 15.
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The Boston skyline frames a bolt of lightning on June 6.
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A severe thunderstorm exits the coast of Revere on June 26.
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A threatening sky frames a young scooter rider at Revere Beach on July 8.
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Heavy waves pound the Revere coast as Winter Storm Gail does her thing on Dec. 17.
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Boston Lighthouse is seen in the background as a surfer rides waves in Winthrop on Feb. 27.
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An evening rainbow after a storm late afternoon, in Winthrop on June 24.
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Ducks congregate atop a sunken boat in East Boston on Nov. 9.
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Cataldo Ambulance personnel and Revere firefighters helped a mom and her newborn as the mom delivered her baby in morning traffic in Revere on July 16.
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An Everett firefighter trains his hose on a morning fire on July 17.
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A tired Boston firefighter takes a moment shortly after his colleagues rescued a mother and her two young children from a South End apartment fire on Dec. 2.
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The full moon sets behind Boston’s Prudential Tower on Oct. 1.
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The Flower Moon/Supermoon sets over Boston’s Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge on May 6.
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A smoky/hazy sunrise caused by smoke from western wildfires rises over Boston Harbor’s Graves Light on Sept. 16.
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A high-altitude jet flies through a photographer’s view of the moon. Jet was over Weymouth as photographer shot from Winthrop.
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The convergence of Saturn and Jupiter, also known as the Great Conjunction, or Christmas Star, is seen from East Boston’s Orient Heights on Dec. 21.
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A unique sky over East Boston during the Department of Defense flyover on July 4.
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Salem (Mass.) Police help out a wayward duckling after it and several siblings fell into a storm drain on July 18.
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A squirrel appears surprised at a bird feeder in Winthrop on April 10.
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An hours-old baby Robin baths in the morning light in Winthrop on May 30.
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An Eagle carries a stick back to a nest along the Charles River on March 6.
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A seagull and a decoy, atop an East Boston house on Oct. 29.
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Mourning Doves congregate under a rising moon in Winthrop on Jan. 2.
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A Great Egret takes off from East Boston’s Belle Isle Marsh on April 7.
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A Mourning Dove is framed by the rising moon in Winthrop on Jan. 7.
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A squirrel and a peanut on a roof in Winthrop on Dec. 12.
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A pre-Halloween snowstorm added to the beauty of Sudbury on Oct. 30.
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In Newbury, Mass., Colby Farm Sunflowers are in full bloom on Sept. 3.
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A child plays in the lobby of the JFK Library, on Presidents Day on Feb. 17.
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A car sits inside a Medford Nail Salon after a multi-vehicle crash on July 28.
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A high-kicking Emily Entingh, a Boston Ballet dancer, poses for a photo at the Massachusetts State House on Dec. 11.
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