Download or read book Originally from Dorchester written by Gerard Healy and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lessons author Gerard Healy learned growing up in Bostons neighborhood of Dorchester prepared him well for the life that followed. His parents, teachers, kind neighbors, true friends, and the culture of Dorchester provided Healy with a solid base of values. Trial and error would fill in the gaps. The stories in Originally from Dorchester narrate the good, the bad, and beauty of life there in the mid-60s. A story of place and time, it chronicles a young boys struggle for identity against the competing forces of peer and gang pressure. A predominantly Irish working-class neighborhood, Dorchester held everything including brutal street fighters, true friends, intimidating nuns, and protective neighbors. Carrying the spirit of adventure with him always, Originally from Dorchester shares the lessons learned from family and friends that Healy has carried with him as hes roamed far beyond the towns borders. It explores the complex relationships of adolescent peers, the struggle to break free of intimidating violence, and the saving value of friendship.
Download or read book Dorchester Days written by Eugene Richards and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 2000-10-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic portrait of small town America in the 1970s.
Download or read book Originally From Dorchester written by Gerard Healy and published by LifeRichPublishing. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young boy's struggle for identity amidst peer and gang pressure in Dorchester, Massachusetts during the mid-1960s.
Download or read book Dorchester Girl written by Judith Kirwan Kelley and published by Sdp Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Kirwan Kelley provides a unique "lived" perspective on growing up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, during tumultuous socio-political times. Deeply impacted by the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the decade of the 1960s dramatically shaped the contexts of living in America. The changing family as well as the social movements for Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Gay Rights, Rights of the Disabled, the sexual revolution, among other forms of cultural upheaval, all played their part in the life of one Originally from Dorchester (OFD). Written with humor and pathos, the stories are based on the author's experiences, backed up by a comprehensive investigation of written sources which explore the complex history of mandatory school desegregation in Boston, and other cultural phenomena occurring at the time. Kirwan Kelley's detailed elaborations of family, neighborhood, and complex cultural dynamics are reflective of both the consistency and unpredictability of life. Intended to inform as well as to entertain, Kirwan Kelley clearly demonstrates appreciation of having come of age in Dorchester. She is, and always will be, a Dorchester Girl at heart.
Download or read book Originally from Dorchester written by Gerard Francis Healy and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Greater Glory written by Dan Kurzman and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2005-08-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sinking of the Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was one of the worst sea disasters of World War II. It was also the occasion of an astounding feat of heroism—and faith. As water gushed through a hole made by a German torpedo, four chaplains—members of different faiths but linked by bonds of friendship and devotion—moved quietly among the men onboard. Preaching bravery, the chaplains distributed life jackets, including their own. In the end, these four men went down with the ship, their arms linked in spiritual solidarity, their voices raised in prayer. In this spellbinding narrative, award-winning author and journalist Dan Kurzman tells the story of these heroes and the faith—in God and in country—that they shared. They were about as different as four American clergymen could be. George Lansing Fox (Methodist), wounded and decorated in World War I, loved his family and his Vermont congregation—yet he re-enlisted as soon as he heard about Pearl Harbor. Rabbi Alex Goode was an athlete, an intellectual, and an adoring new father—yet he too knew, the day Pearl Harbor was bombed, that he would serve. Clark Poling (Dutch Reformed), the son a famous radio evangelist, left for war begging his father to pray that he would never be a coward. Father John Washington (Catholic), a scrappy Irish street fighter, had dedicated himself to the church after a childhood brush with death. Chance brought the chaplains together at a Massachusetts training camp, but each was convinced that God had a reason for placing them together aboard the Dorchester. Drawing on extensive interviews with the chaplains’ families and the crews of both the Dorchester and the German submarine that fired the fatal torpedo, Kurzman re-creates the intimate circumstances and great historic events that culminated in that terrible night. The final hours unfold with the electrifying clarity of nightmare—the chaplains taking charge of the dwindling supply of life jackets, the panic of the crew, the overcrowded lifeboats, the prayers that ring out over the chaos, and the tight circle that the four chaplains form as the inevitable draws near. In No Greater Glory, Dan Kurzman tells how four extraordinary men left their mark on a single night of war—and forever changed the lives of those they saved. Riveting and inspiring, this is a true story of heroism, of goodness in the face of disaster, and of faith that transfigures even the horror of war.
Download or read book Dorchester Births Marriages and Deaths to the End of 1825 written by Dorchester (Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Church and Parish of Dorchester Mass Coincident with the Settlement of the Town written by First Church (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England 1636 1734 written by First Church (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dorchester Celebration written by Boston (Mass.). School Committee and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dead End Dorchester written by Ses Carny and published by Ded Books. This book was released on 2018-07-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Dorchester Cemetery. On this Halloween night, our dearly departed residents will guide you through a collection of original spooky poems and creepy tales, each designed to chill your spine.
Download or read book First Dorchester Families written by Calvin W. Mowbray and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Town of Dorchester Massachusetts written by Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King Train written by Russell DuPont and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King & Train is a coming-of-age novel set during the years 1956-1960 and experienced through the novel's main character Danny Shea who, even in the midst of his rowdy and oddball friends, remains somewhat isolated and introspective. It is a story that deals with violence, humor, friendship, and the first stirrings of love; and culminates in a quest that takes Danny far from home and results in both failure and an awakening.
Download or read book Urban Exodus written by Gerald Gamm and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the country, white ethnics have fled cities for suburbs. But many have stayed in their old neighborhoods. When the busing crisis erupted in Boston in the 1970s, Catholics were in the forefront of resistance. Jews, 70,000 of whom had lived in Roxbury and Dorchester in the early 1950s, were invisible during the crisis. They were silent because they departed the city more quickly and more thoroughly than Boston's Catholics. Only scattered Jews remained in Dorchester and Roxbury by the mid-1970s. In telling the story of why the Jews left and the Catholics stayed, Gerald Gamm places neighborhood institutions--churches, synagogues, community centers, schools--at its center. He challenges the long-held assumption that bankers and real estate agents were responsible for the rapid Jewish exodus. Rather, according to Gamm, basic institutional rules explain the strength of Catholic attachments to neighborhood and the weakness of Jewish attachments. Because they are rooted, territorially defined, and hierarchical, parishes have frustrated the urban exodus of Catholic families. And because their survival was predicated on their portability and autonomy, Jewish institutions exacerbated the Jewish exodus. Gamm shows that the dramatic transformation of urban neighborhoods began not in the 1950s or 1960s, but in the 1920s. Not since Anthony Lukas's Common Ground has there been a book that so brilliantly explores not just Boston's dilemma but the roots of the American urban crisis.
Download or read book Adventures Through COVID written by Fotias Parris and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous reflection on the trials and tribulations of COVID-19 and their effects on the author.
Download or read book An Inventory of the Records of the Particular Congregational Churches of Massachusetts Gathered 1620 1805 written by Harold Field Worthley and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
