Our story begins in Southern Italy from where almost all North Enders originated especially the hill towns surrounding Avellino and Sicily. The Italians who traveled to America were desperately poor and led an agrarian life which had changed little since the Middle Ages. The voyage itself was perilous and they all traveled in Third Class Read More…
Boston Community Collaborative’s Dance and Drama students recently performed “The Circus of Rhyme”, an original play written, produced and directed by their wonderful instructor Miss Ingrid Oslund. The play itself was based on different poems ranging from Edger Allen Poe and e e cummings to original limericks written by the students. Each student had the Read More…
June’s book is Karen Russell’s debut novel, Swamplandia! (2011), featuring twelve-year-old Ava who ventures into the mysterious “underworld” of a Florida swamp in order to save her family’s dynasty of alligator wrestling. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, Swamplandia! depicts a family’s struggle to stay afloat in a world that Read More…
