From local resident and researcher, Anne M. Pistorio, comes this street name article including a picture of the mid-17th century North End, complete with a windmill on the location now occupied by Copp’s Hill Burying Ground. Anne spent almost two years looking for this 1999 Boston Tab article and found it with help at the Bostonian Society. If you live in the North End, you will want to read the article to find out the origin of your street name.
With traffic, street closings, narrow one-way streets, sporadic construction, and street cleaning, parking is an ongoing issue in the North End neighborhood. What many may not know is that this issue with parking is not a new development. In fact, this has been a problem in the city of Boston for almost one hundred years. In 1926, Our Boston Read More…
Video: Excerpts from Paul Revere’s Letter to Jeremy Belknap, read by Joe Kearns Goodwin, U.S. Army Veteran and Victoria Bonney Goodwin. When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Lambert Willhousky, Performed by Old North Chamber Choir under Dr. Libor Dudas, Organist and Director Old North Church hosted the Annual Lantern Ceremony on Sunday, April 17, 2012. Read More…
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“Greetings from Boston” Postcard Exhibition Now Open
Boston Public Library displays classic postcards
BOSTON — August 17, 2010 – Greetings from Boston is a new Boston Public Library exhibition of vintage postcards that colorfully captures the unique feel, important architecture, and cultural history of early twentieth-century Boston. The city’s thriving neighborhoods are on display, as is the story of America’s long-standing passion for postcards.
Souvenir picture postcards made their American debut in 1893. By the early 1900s, the United States was in the throes of a postcard craze. In 1908 alone, Americans mailed more than 677 million cards. These new cards generated immediate appeal as inexpensive keepsakes and an economical means of communication. Although the “Golden Age” of postcards ended with World War I, postcard collecting is still one of the most popular hobbies in the world.
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A fascinating read. Thanks to Anne Pistorio for her persistence in finding the article and thanks to Matt Conti for posting it.