This week’s top reads on NorthEndWaterfront.com featured neighborhood history, city council updates, parks improvements, local elections and community events! Read on below to see the most popular articles from this past week. A Shtetl in the City, Part 3, “A Vanished World” This third installment of Nicholas Dello Russo’s A Shtetl in the City, reflects on Read More…
The first Italians arrived in the North End in the 1860s when the political and economic situation in Italy had become untenable. Their numbers grew here in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Most were unskilled laborers and lacked the ability to speak English. They faced severe discrimination and took what jobs were available with Read More…
Sign up for this Innovative Italian Summer Camp that will be held at the Dante Alighieri Society of Cambridge, the week August 19, 2019. Contact mgmotta@casit.org or rschino@casit.org.
