The Boston Globe features Nina Zannieri, Executive Director, of the North End’s Paul Revere House. Zannieri is taking the Museum to the next level through several changes, including a major capital campaign to expand and renovate a Lathrop Place property which is well underway. The first step toward that change is coming, when the Paul Read More…
NEHS Open House The North End Historical Society (NEHS) will be holding an open house on Saturday, October 23, from 2 p.m.-4 p.m. next to the fountain on the Prado/Paul Revere Mall. Board Members will be on hand to answer questions and discuss ideas for sharing and preserving North End history. Memberships can also be Read More…
I had the opportunity to interview Dom Capossela, who recently published “Dom’s, An Odyssey” asking the question, “Why did it take 6,000,000 Italians 100 years to assimilate into the American Mainstream?” The book illustrates the arduous, often tortuous road that the immigrants from Italy’s southern region, the Mezzogiorno, traveled to find a functional identity in Read More…
On her blog about U.S. Presidents and food, “The History Chef”, Suzy Evans, J.D., Ph.D tells the story of the famous North End’s Molasses Disaster of 1919 and how it relates to prohibition and President Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson, Prohibition and the Molasses Disaster of 1919 What does this have to do with President Woodrow Read More…
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The Mather Family Tomb in Copp’s Hill Burying Ground was recently restored, apparently by descendents of the family famous for their involvement in the early days of Massachusetts history. The tomb holds the remains of Increase Mather, his son Cotton Mather and grandson Samuel Mather. As seen in the photos below, the tomb’s condition is Read More…
Ending the North End’s summer of religious tributes to patron saints is the Santa Rosalia Di Palmero Society with a mass and procession on Sunday September 12, 2010. Born in 1130 and dying young in 1166, was a rich an noble maiden of Palermo’s Norman origin, Rosalia Sinibaldi. Rosalia retreated to a mountain, presumably as Read More…
Annelena Lobb of the Boston Globe writes about the ongoing Lathrop Place expansion and fundraising campaign of the Paul Revere House Museum. “The organization that runs the Paul Revere House is trying to raise $4 million in its first-ever capital campaign to expand the historic North End site. The nonprofit Paul Revere Memorial Association, Read More…
Monday, September 20 • 6pm • Central Library in Copley Square • Rabb Lecture Hall Stephen Puleo comes to the Boston Public Library after his book, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, was chosen by the people of Boston as the one book that the entire city should read. More than 8,000 Read More…
Remember, admission to the Paul Revere House is FREE to North End residents. “Paul Revere’s Boston” Visit the courtyard of the Paul Revere House on Saturday afternoons in the fall for a glimpse of life in 18th century Boston. This year Tinker Larry Leonard makes his first appearance at the museum to demonstrate the craft Read More…
Courtesy of the North End Historical Society: The Enduring Qualities: An Exploration of the Origins of the Fitzgerald and Kennedy Families in Boston, Saturday August 21, 2010 The Enduring Qualities: An Exploration of the Origins of the Fitzgerald and Kennedy Families in Boston, Saturday August 21, 2010 Ten days before his inauguration as president, John 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.