The Order Sons and Daughters of Italy (OSIA) is coming to the North End! Almost 16 million people in the United States identify as Italian-American. Here in Boston, Italians have a rich and storied history, consistently ranking as one of the top five Italian-American populations for cities in the U.S. The North End, of course, is often Read More…
Ah, midsummer in Boston. Swan boats cruise languidly in the Public Garden lagoon while tourists feed the ducks popcorn and peanuts. Squirrels (tree rats) beg for food and brazenly assault strollers in the Boston Common who are on their way to work or to shop. The Red Sox are in first place and are well on Read More…
The 15th annual International Sand Sculpting Festival took place this past weekend at Revere Beach. Thousands of people gathered at America’s first public beach to see these impressive sculptures, in addition to visiting food trucks and other vendors lining the Revere boardwalk. Those who stuck around into the evening hours on Saturday enjoyed a spectacular fireworks Read More…
Artists for Humanity invite residents to participate in a large collaborative painting at Christopher Columbus Park on Thursday, July 26 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. This interactive art series is designed to build community and generate conversation around issues effecting the waterfront all while learning about access to Boston Harbor in various neighborhood sites. Community Read More…
Internationally acclaimed intertidal zone artist Andres Amador will transform three metropolitan beaches into works of art this weekend beginning today, Friday, July 20, 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Constitution Beach in East Boston, as part of Save the Harbor/Save the Bay and DCR’s Better Beaches Program. Working with sand rakes and teams of volunteers, Read More…
The Society of San Rocco held their annual procession on Sunday, July 15, 2018 through the streets of Boston’s North End. The Story of Saint Rocco – Saint Rocco was born into an aristocratic French family. He turned away from his worldly inheritance and status, giving all of his possessions to the poor and the sick. He Read More…
By Jessica Dello Russo North Square is undergoing a $2.5 million facelift – the first in many decades. It includes the installation in 2019 of public art by A+J Art+Design on the theme of the many historical periods through which the square has endured as open space. There will be tributes to Boston’s first colonists from Read More…
The West End Museum’s new photo exhibit, Before the El Came Down: Photographs by John Woolf, will offer a glimpse into the final days of the elevated green line tracks to visitors beginning July 24. Opened on June 1, 1912, the Causeway Street Elevated Railway was one of the last sections of raised tracks constructed in Read More…
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath, chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their Read More…
The annual procession was held for Madonna delle Grazie on July 8, 2018 in Boston’s North End. The society honors Madonna Delle Grazie of Avellino, Italy and was founded in Boston in 1903 from San Sossio Baronia Avellino. Madonna delle Grazie (Our Lady of Graces) is a devotion to the Virgin Mary in the Roman Catholic Church. Read More…
The North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) is thrilled to announce that their Summer Concert Series will return this year, and bring Jazz in the Park to The Greenway on Tuesday evenings in July beginning at 6 p.m. and ending at 7:30 p.m., at Hanover Street and Cross Street. The NEMPAC Summer Concert Read More…
The North End of my childhood was a neighborhood of tenement buildings and storefronts. Almost every street had at least one storefront and some streets like Salem, Hanover and Endicott were lined with shops selling all the goods and services necessary for tenement life. One of the reasons people loved living in the North End Read More…