every year in May by a parade through Beacon Hill to the Boston Public Garden, where the mallards nested. Nine Lives; or, the celebrated cat of Beacon Hill (Pantheon, 1951) is a 62-page children's book by the novelist Edward Fenton (1917–1995) and illustrator Paul Galdone. "A wealthy, elderly Boston matron adopts a scruffy tomcat and while she is away on a trip her jealous butler tries very hard to destroy all nine of the cat's lives." The 1968 Norman Jewison film The Thomas Crown Affair is set and was largely filmed in and around Beacon Hill. Dr Charles Emerson Winchester in an episode of MASH [9/13 "No Laughing Matter"] swears "By Beacon Hill" to get revenge on the commanding officer who sent him to MASH 4077. Robert Lowell's prose sketch 91 Revere Street was inspired by his childhood home on Beacon Hill. Dr. Michaela Quinn of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman was raised on Beacon Hill. Dr. Maura Isles of TNT's Rizzoli & Isles lives on Beacon Hill. Asclepia, a small private hospital, is mentioned in Patrick O'Brian's sixth Aubrey-Maturin novel, The Fortune of War, as being "in a dry, healthy location near Beacon Hill." The NBC TV series Banacek (1972–1974) was set and partially filmed on Beacon Hill. Its main character "Thomas Banacek" played by George Peppard grew up in nearby "Scollay Square" and lived in the "Second Harrison Grey Otis House." See also National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts List of National Historic Landmarks in Boston List of notable addresses in Beacon Hill, Boston Notes and references Notes References Sources Online version: Book of Boston Further reading Biography: Fiction: External links Beacon Hill History Historic Beacon Hill District | City of Boston Beacon Hill Online (last updated in 2009) Neighborhoods in Boston National Historic Landmarks in Boston Historic districts in Suffolk County, Massachusetts Hills of Massachusetts Populated places on the Underground Railroad Historic preservation in the United States Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Boston