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Local history buff, Anne M. Pistorio, shares her find of North End Forever music, sourced at the Bostonian Society. The musical score of the Hull Street Guards Quick Step by John Holloway was first performed in 1838. The cover is shown below.
The Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society will screen rare film footage of the funeral followed by a general discussion of the case and the Society’s plan to erect a monument, and will conclude with a screening of Peter Miller’s documentary, Sacco and Vanzetti. The event will take place on Saturday, December 4th, beginning at 3:00, Read More…
“HAPPY ANNIVERSARY” to the Post-Gazette as they celebrate 115 years of continuous publication. “One hundred and fifteen years ago, an Italian immigrant who arrived in Boston when he was only 16 years old saw the realization of his fondest dreams, to establish an Italian language newspaper that would be the genuine voice of the increasing Read More…
January 15th is the anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood in Boston’s North End. The United States Industrial Alcohol Company constructed a faulty 50 foot high steel tank in 1918 on Commercial Street near where the bocce courts are located today at Langone Park. Despite many warnings that the tank was faulty, the molasses company Read More…
