Download or read book South Boston My Home Town written by Thomas H. O'Connor and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging yet objective look at the 350-year old history of "Southie," a neighborhood that has survived largely unchanged since the early days of immigrant Irish families and old-time political bosses.
Download or read book South Boston written by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Boston, once a part of Dorchester, was annexed to the city of Boston in 1804. Previously known as a tight-knit community of Polish, Lithuanian, and Irish Americans, South Boston has seen tremendous growth and unprecedented change in the last decade.
Download or read book History of South Boston written by Thomas C. Simonds and published by . This book was released on 1974-06-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A People s Guide to Greater Boston written by Joseph Nevins and published by People's Guide. This book was released on 2020 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Herein, we bring you to sites that have been central to the lives of 'the people' of Greater Boston over four centuries. You'll visit sites associated with the area's indigenous inhabitants and with the individuals and movements who sought to abolish slavery, to end war, challenge militarism, and bring about a more peaceful world, to achieve racial equity, gender justice, and sexual liberation, and to secure the rights of workers. We take you to some well-known sites, but more often to ones far off the well-beaten path of the Freedom Trail, to places in Boston's outlying neighborhoods. We also visit sites in numerous other municipalities that make up the Greater Boston region-from places such as Lawrence, Lowell and Lynn to Concord and Plymouth. The sites to which we do 'travel' include homes given that people's struggles, activism, and organizing sometimes unfold, or are even birthed in many cases in living rooms and kitchens. Trying to capture a place as diverse and dynamic as Boston is highly challenging. (One could say that about any 'big' place.) We thus want to make clear that our goal is not to be comprehensive, or to 'do justice' to the region. Given the constraints of space and time as well as the limitations of knowledge--both our own and what is available in published form--there are many important sites, cities, and towns that we have not included. Thus, in exploring scores of sites across Boston and numerous municipalities, our modest goal is to paint a suggestive portrait of the greater urban area that highlights its long-contested nature. In many ways, we merely scratch the region's surface--or many surfaces--given the multiple layers that any one place embodies. In writing about Greater Boston as a place, we run the risk of suggesting that the city writ-large has some sort of essence. Indeed, the very notion of a particular place assumes intrinsic characteristics and an associated delimited space. After all, how can one distinguish one place from another if it has no uniqueness and is not geographically differentiated? Nonetheless, geographer Doreen Massey insists that we conceive of places as progressive, as flowing over the boundaries of any particular space, time, or society; in other words, we should see places as processual or ever-changing, as unbounded in that they shape and are shaped by other places and forces from without, and as having multiple identities. In exploring Greater Boston from many venues over 400 years, we embrace this approach. That said, we have to reconcile this with the need to delimit Greater Boston--for among other reasons, simply to be in a position to name it and thus distinguish it from elsewhere"--
Download or read book All Souls written by Michael Patrick MacDonald and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community's code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty.
Download or read book South Boston written by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Boston, once a part of Dorchester, was annexed to the city of Boston in 1804. Previously known as a tight-knit community of Polish, Lithuanian, and Irish Americans, South Boston has seen tremendous growth and unprecedented change in the last decade.
Download or read book South Boston My Home Town written by Thomas H. O'Connor and published by Quinlan Press (MA). This book was released on 1988 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of South Boston written by Thomas C. Simonds and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City Maps South Boston Massachusetts USA written by James mcFee and published by Soffer Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Maps South Boston Massachusetts, USA is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun South Boston adventure :)
Download or read book History of South Boston Its Past and Present and Prospects for the Future written by John J. Toomey and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-25 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original 1901 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Toomey, John J. History Of South Boston (Its Past And Present) And Prospects For The Future: With Sketches Of Prominent Men. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Toomey, John J. History Of South Boston (Its Past And Present) And Prospects For The Future: With Sketches Of Prominent Men, . Boston: The Authors, 1901. Subject: South Boston Boston, Mass. History
Download or read book Common Ground written by J. Anthony Lukas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." "An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger, pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
Download or read book South Boston on Parade written by Paul A. Christian and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women of Southie written by Phyllis Karas and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's never too late to live: the Anna Weeks story --Loyalty at all costs: the Karen Weeks Rakes story --Never losing faith: the Tori Donlan story --Family is everything: the Elaine McGuire Donlan story --There goes the teacher lady: the Marie Falcione Hardy story --Her mother's daughter: the Nancy Young story.
Download or read book Reinventing You With a New Preface written by Dorie Clark and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you where you want to be professionally? Whether you want to advance faster at your present company, change jobs, or make the jump to a new field entirely, Reinventing You, now in paperback with a new preface, provides a step-by-step guide to help you assess your unique strengths, develop a compelling personal brand, and ensure that others recognize the powerful contribution you can make. Branding expert Dorie Clark mixes personal stories with engaging interviews and examples from Mark Zuckerberg, Al Gore, Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, and others to show you how to think big about your professional goals, take control of your career, and finally live the life you want.
Download or read book Gaining Ground written by Nancy S. Seasholes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.
Download or read book Washington Village written by Richard Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Village -- named to honor the nation's first President, a hero in the Revolutionary War -- holds its own among other neighborhoods of Boston in sheer historic value.The name Washington Village, identifying the neighborhood around the triangle of land bounded by Dorchester Avenue, Old Colony Avenue, and Dorchester Street, recognizes the connection with George Washington. Famously, cannon abandoned at Fort Ticonderoga in New York were secretly transported up Dorchester Neck and to Dorchester Heights, with its commanding presence overlooking British ships in Boston Harbor. Now we celebrate Evacuation Day, when the British were driven out without a battle.The name Washington Village lasted officially less than half a century, though it lingered on in maps. The area was renamed in 1891 as Andrew Square, after the late Civil War governor of Massachusetts and abolitionist, John A. Andrew.Now, with the imminent creation of a new, mixed-use development at the corner of Old Colony Avenue and Dorchester Street, the name returns. Washington Village, a joint venture of Core Investments and Samuels & Associates, will feature residences, a park, retail establishments, and places to eat. Nearby, the former industrial stretch to the west of Dorchester Avenue, much of it a part of the vibrant original Washington Village, also will be transformed, tailored to 21st century needs.Washington Village -- from a Native American hunting and fishing ground to cow pasture and orchards to Revolutionary War battleground to Patriots' outpost to industrial powerhouse -- is now entering its next chapter. This book honors that history.
Download or read book History of South Boston written by Thomas C. Simonds and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
