In addition to Boston’s celebrations for St. Patrick’s Day and Evacuation Day, many in the North End are recognizing March 17, 2011 for the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy. U.S. President Barak Obama has made an official proclamation to celebrate the anniversary. The Consul General of Italy in Boston, Giuseppe Pastorelli, will Read More…
The North End Historical Society and the Nazzaro Community Center recently sponsored a discussion with Dr. Oscar Andersson, revisiting the 1943 book “Street Corner Society”, by Willam Foote Whyte. It is now well known that the groundbreaking sociological book is about life in the North End in the late 1930s, although the author kept secret Read More…
At high noon on Sunday, July 4, 2010, the USS Constitution, “Old Ironsides,” made her annual jaunt into Boston Harbor around the North End to Fort Independence on Castle Island. After a 21-gun salute she did her famous turnaround back toward her berth in Charlestown Navy Yard. On her return sailing, she gave a 17-gun Read More…
