Street Corner Society is an iconic study published by William Foote Whyte in 1943. I read and researched this book 46 years ago in college and recently revisited it with the North End’s Dr. James Pasto of Boston’s University. I continue to be puzzled at his use of “gangs and slum” as major notation of Read More…
Join us to discuss Erik Larson’s 2011 nonfiction thriller “In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin,” in which mild-mannered history Professor William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in 1933 ~ a year which proved to be a turning point in history. Copies of Read More…
Happy St. Valentine’s Day! Enjoy this jigsaw picture puzzle featuring the Peter Baldassari’s St. Valentine’s display on Battery Street. How to play: Move and drag the pieces around just like a regular jigsaw puzzle. If you are “missing” a piece, move the other pieces aside to look behind them. Beginners can use the guides found in the lower left icons.
