Thanks to continued support from Public Action for Arts and Education (PAAE), the Nazzaro Center in the North End has sustained a thriving arts program for the past eleven years. Under the direction of arts teacher Josephine Lepore, the center offers children instruction in drawing (pencil, black and white, charcoal), and also oil painting and other projects. 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…
Students in grades 3 and 4 at the Eliot Intermediate School in Boston’s North End have started their own school newspaper, Eliot Times. The second edition of the paper, started by students Patrick and Orson, was recently published and met with much enthusiasm from the other students, as evidenced by the photo below! The founders Read More…
