On Saturday, August 14th and Sunday August 15th, The North End Music and Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) participated in the Annual Fisherman’s Feast on North Street. Under the direction of Emily Trask, twelve children, ages 4-10 performed a short play on the history of the Feast. The play was written by NEMPAC board member Lauren Read More…
InterAct Boston and the Chu Ling Dance Academy presented an interactive dance experience to the Rose Kennedy Greenway in the Wharf District Parks on Saturday, August 28th. InterAct Boston brings performing artists from across the city to engage the public, creating an interactive environment where spectators get to jump into the act! The Greenway is Read More…
Congratulations to the Feast Committee of San Antonio Di Padova Da Montefalcione, Inc. for a terrific three days at the 91st Saint Anthony’s Feast on Endicott, Thacher & N. Margin Streets. Also included are photos from the Thursday night BBQ where there was a film showing of “50 Years of the St. Anthony’s Feast” on Read More…
Fireworks lit up Boston Harbor and the North End/Waterfront tonight, set off from a barge in the harbor by Long Wharf. The show was courtesy of a wedding taking place at the Boston Harbor Hotel. (Photos: Matt C.) And a video from sdrwallace on YouTube via UniversalHub.com.
Would you like to sing with us? Ti piacerebbe cantare con noi? The Coro-Dante, New England’s all-Italian repertoire chorus of the Dante Alighieri Society, is starting up again for our fourth year. Rehearsals are every Monday night from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. at the Dante Alighieri Society, 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge (Kendall Square). Our first Read More…
North End Novel, “The Virgin Knows” by Christine Palamidessi Moore, now in paperback When it debuted in 1995, THE VIRGIN KNOWS made quite a splash. The press called it “otherworldly…startling…fun and well plotted…clever and compulsively readable.” Now (summer 2010) the novel is out in paperback and for sale in the North End at Polcari’s on Salem Read More…
The North End Music and Performing Arts Center Fall Session Courses and Private Music Instruction registration is under way. To register online: www.nempacboston.org. Payments will be collected at your first class. All Best, Becca Griffin, NEMPAC COURSES FOR KIDS: Family Music Makers: Little Music Makers Toddlers (newborn – approx. 4) and their caretakers sing, dance Read More…
A Memorial Mass will be offered for the repose of the soul of Father Thomas More Nicastro O.F.M. on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 12:00 Noon at St. Leonard’s Church, Hanover Street, Boston, (North End). Father “Tom” passed away on July 13, 2010 at the age of 93. Father was the Principal of the former Read More…
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“Greetings from Boston” Postcard Exhibition Now Open
Boston Public Library displays classic postcards
BOSTON — August 17, 2010 – Greetings from Boston is a new Boston Public Library exhibition of vintage postcards that colorfully captures the unique feel, important architecture, and cultural history of early twentieth-century Boston. The city’s thriving neighborhoods are on display, as is the story of America’s long-standing passion for postcards.
Souvenir picture postcards made their American debut in 1893. By the early 1900s, the United States was in the throes of a postcard craze. In 1908 alone, Americans mailed more than 677 million cards. These new cards generated immediate appeal as inexpensive keepsakes and an economical means of communication. Although the “Golden Age” of postcards ended with World War I, postcard collecting is still one of the most popular hobbies in the world.
It was a Celtic Night on Tuesday with Laura Cortese at Christopher Columbus Park bringing ancient fiddle styles to pop songs. Opening the music night was the Gilcrhist Trio. Next up for the end of the City’s Waterfront Performing Arts Series are the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), “A bawdy parody of the plays written Read More…
The prestigious Italian Navy training ship San Giusto docked in Boston this weekend and open to the public. On Saturday, Cardinal Sean O’Malley said a Mass aimed at Boston’s Italian community. The amphibious ship is making a four-day port visit during a training cruise that has taken second-year midshipmen from the Italian Naval Academy to Read More…
The Fisherman’s Feast is an annual event that began in Boston in 1910 and is based on a tradition that goes back to the 16th century in Sciacca Sicily. The Feast is based on the devotion of the fishermen from Sciacca to the Madonna del Soccorso (Our Lady of Help). When the fishermen immigrated to Read More…