Autumn was everyone’s favorite season in the North End. The feasts were over, the air was crisp and cool, the smell of burning leaves would drift in from the suburbs, the kids were back in school, and it was wine-making season. Old Italian men kept their traditions alive and made wine in many of the Read More…
Come celebrate autumn with the North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association on Thursday, November 9th, 6:30 p.m. Curious about how to get involved with your neighborhood? Come and find out about NEWRA. Non-members, friends and neighbors welcome.
New Englanders have a complicated relationship with autumn. We brag about it and invite outsiders to enjoy it with us. After all, who wouldn’t like those maples and oaks turning orange, crimson and yellow? Trees turn color in Illinois and Iowa too, but because those places have few hills, you can’t see them in big Read More…
JoAnn Aloise LaPorte shares this poetic prose, reminiscing about the month of October as a North End kid. so funny the month of October as a kid I always felt like it was the last hurrah for fall.. the vinegar peppers would be in lopilatos bathtub in the fruit store.. my mother would send me Read More…