A Suffolk University team of students recently completed a photo / video project for a History of Boston class. The North End Project was submitted by Rich Upson, Max Maroney, Betsy Willett, Angel Davis, Samuel Thaler & Tyler Parmelee. The video is shown above and the text / photo portion is available at this website.
I’m Marco Curti, I’m 30 years old and I work as a researcher and documentarist for different TV production companies based in Rome. Last year I have worked as a footage and stories researcher for these projects: http://www.historychannel.it/wwiilaguerradegliitaliani/programma/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EenxCjI4pw (see clip below) And now I’m in NYC and I’m making a documentary about Italian-Americans who Read More…
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News from the USS Constitution Museum: America’s oldest commissioned warship, USS Constitution, sets sail on Sunday for the first time since 1997. For this momentous occasion, the United States Post Office releases a Forever stamp of the ship to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812. The image depicted on the stamp is the Read More…
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Good job students! Your documentary gives a fine synopsis of our North End. You did a lot of research. Selecting which historical events, people and places to feature must have been daunting.
N.B. In the Italian era part of the documentary–which began at the end of the nineteenth century into the twentieth century when the first wave of Italians immigrated–it should be noted that history was made when first generation Boston Latin School honors graduate, Louis Polcari, of Tileston Street, became the first American of Italian heritage from the North End to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point (class of 1942). Captain Polcari was on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur–who handpicked his officers.
The filming and photography was good, too! Well done.