The four-day Flash Forward Festival drew thousands to the free public exhibitions, lectures and parties at the Fairmont Battery Wharf Hotel on the North End waterfront. The outdoor Harborwalk installations will be up all summer (See Flash Forward Festival Photography Exhibitions on Harborwalk.) Due to popular demand, the exhibitions at Two Battery Wharf will remain Read More…
WBUR’s Here and Now interviews Deborah Kops on her new children’s book about the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston’s North End along Commercial Street. This bizarre tragedy has been written about before, but Kops decided to tell the story partly through the eyes of children who lived through it. “Disaster books are almost Read More…
Phyllis Rugnetta, Mary Giuffreda, and Nancy Caruso joined fellow North End resident Frank Ania for a game of bocce on the North End waterfront. This 1998 photo is included in the Globe’s gallery associated with the May 13, 2012 article, “The Boston Waterfront has Arrived.” View the entire gallery. Tom Keane writes “The Boston Waterfront Read More…