North End Stories has released its latest video as part of a developing “digital narrative” project. In this video Corrine Testa, a lifelong North End resident, recalls what it was like growing up in the North End and shares what she and her friends did after school and on the weekends in the 1940s. See more at NorthEndStories.com.
Produced by the North End Historical Society, Boston’s North End: An Italian American Story is the first feature length, high definition film to chronicle the vibrant Italian American community that has called the North End of Boston home for well over 100 years. The documentary movie is based on historical records and interviews with Italian American North Enders and their descendants, ranging Read More…
FlavorsoftheNorthEnd.com is featuring a video taken a few years ago of John Rega interviewing the North End’s Vincenzo DiGangi, former publisher of Boston’s North End Magazine. “This walking tour brought back memories of my past when I was a child growing up in the North & West End of Boston. During the 20th Century, this Read More…
The contretemps over 124 Chestnut Street on Beacon Hill, where a new owner contends the building is so unstable he has to raze it and neighbors say it must be saved, reminds me of an earlier attempt to eliminate a feature of a building. Several years ago, a religious symbol rested on the peak of Read More…