Columbus Day Parade Video & Photos

Street Corner Society – Video of William Foote Whyte & North End Interviews

The North End Historical Society and the Nazzaro Community Center recently sponsored a discussion with Dr. Oscar Andersson, revisiting the 1943 book “Street Corner Society”, by Willam Foote Whyte. It is now well known that the groundbreaking sociological book is about life in the North End in the late 1930s, although the author kept secret Read More…

Palace on Parmenter

(On the Aesthetics of Architecture:  Venice and Islam: A Dialogue Between Two Cultures (Examining Venice’s Trade-links with the Eastern Mediterranean). Analyzing the Islamic Influence on Venetian Gothic Architecture of the Ducal Palace in Venice, Italy, through the works of 19th century British Architect, John Ruskin.) *With a special thanks to the Friends of the North End Read More…

Remembering 9-11, the Bobby D Way

I was going through some old stuff in my filing cabinet and I came across this Photo.  For about 5 years starting in 2003, the late Bobby Decristoforo and North End Against Drugs hooked up with Brother David from The Franciscan Center in Wilmington Delaware – who drove up one of these awesome Bells of Read More…