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.
by Meredith Halsey On the evening of November 14, 2013, the North End Historical Society and the Mariners House presented a hands-on lecture on tracing your Italian family roots. Rhonda McClure, a nationally-recognized expert from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, conducted the program. Ms. McClure began the program with tips on how to start Read More…
Bob Skole is featured in this video by North End Stories, a digital narrative project. Skole talks about the Italian News, an Italian-American newspaper published weekly throughout the 1950s in Boston. He discusses the various campaigns undertaken by the newspaper to lobby on behalf of the North End neighborhood and to dispel stereotypes of Italian-Americans. Read More…
Contemporary artist, Ed Sokoloff, has finally found the logo and original menu for Stella Restaurant, formerly on Fleet Street in Boston’s North End. This was a “missing piece” in his famous North End restaurant collage project. Ed reports that he is planning an update of the North End collage soon. Shown here are portions of the menu 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.