South Boston

Author : Thomas H. O'Connor
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555531881
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Michael Patrick MacDonald
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807071986
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Joan E. Kaiser
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584658045
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glass Industry in South Boston written by Joan E. Kaiser and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of and collectors' guide to nineteenth-century glass manufacturing in South Boston

Author : Jim Sullivan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738555287
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Boston written by Jim Sullivan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early part of the 20th century, technological advances in the printing industry spawned a new fad: postcard collecting. Publishers dispatched photographers to communities throughout the country and produced iconic images that formed a portrait of the nation. Travelers used postcards to communicate with friends and family and to maintain a visual record of their itineraries. Although the fad was short lived, thousands of postcards and, in some cases, entire collections survive to this day. Through vintage postcards, South Boston shows one of Bostons most beautiful neighborhoods with miles of sandy beaches, shaded thoroughfares, and well-kept brick and wood frame homes. South Boston is an Irish American enclave that has probably undergone fewer physical and social changes than any other section of the city.

Author : Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439632766
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738539485
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738539492
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston's South End written by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston's South End, built on mostly man-made land, had become the city's premier neighborhood by the 1850s and featured many parks embellished with cast-iron fountains and distinctive fences. Over the next century, the South End became a thriving melting pot of ethnicities, races, and religions. Boston's South End shows how this area's brick row houses, lush green parks, upscale restaurants, and Boston Center for the Arts have made the South End both an attractive destination and a popular residential area.

Author : Patrick J. Loftus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Old Gang of Mine written by Patrick J. Loftus and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a history of South Boston and its residents from the early 1900s to the present day.

Author : Joseph Nevins
Publisher : People's Guide
ISBN 13 : 0520294521
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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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"--

Author : Mark Robert Schneider
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 155553807X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joe Moakley's Journey written by Mark Robert Schneider and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of the popular, long-serving congressman from South Boston