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Author: Thomas H. O'Connor
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781555531881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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: James O'Toole
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2004-01-08
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781555535827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection is both a tribute to the distinguished work of Thomas H. O'Connor, the dean of Boston historians, and a survey of the best and innovative contemporary work on Boston's diverse histories.
Author: Joan E. Kaiser
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1584658045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of and collectors' guide to nineteenth-century glass manufacturing in South Boston
Author: Hope Lim
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2022-04-12
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 1536226785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a young boy and his mother travel overseas to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined. Will he be able to see it the way Mommy does? This gentle, contemplative picture book about family origins invites us to ponder the meaning of home. A young boy loves listening to his mother describe the place where she grew up, a world of tall mountains and friends splashing together in the river. Mommy’s stories have let the boy visit her homeland in his thoughts and dreams, and now he’s old enough to travel with her to see it for himself. But when mother and son arrive, the town is not as he imagined. Skyscrapers block the mountains, and crowds hurry past. The boy feels like an outsider—until they visit the river where his mother used to play, and he sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain. Sensitively pitched to a child’s-eye view, this vivid story honors the immigrant experience and the timeless bond between parent and child, past and present.
Author: Thomas H. O'Connor
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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. Originally published by Quinlan Press in 1988 and reprinted by Northeastern University Press in 1994. With a new foreword by Lawrence W. Kennedy.
Author: Ginni Louise Swanton
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-08
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1329432851
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"On June 15, 1929, with Dr. John G. Cullinan, Reverend Thomas J. Hill and Father Healy by his side, William Swanton signed his name for the very last time . I wasn't there, of course, but I can imagine him raising his pen with an age-spotted, quivering hand to the document presented to him on his deathbed. This document would affect the lives of many people for many years to come. William's story, however, begins 74 years earlier in rural County Cork, Ireland." This book chronicles the lives of William Swanton and his wife, Anne (O'Neil) Swanton. They were born in neighboring townlands in rural County Cork and immigrated to Boston, where they lived until the 1920s. William Swanton was a larger-than-life figure who cut a wide swath as he charged through life. Accounts of rural country life, chain migration, women's rights, upward mobility in a new country, venereal disease, marital separation and insanity all provide a fascinating glimpse into the past.
Author: Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2006-10-09
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1439632766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth 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: Jim Sullivan
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738555287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring 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: Lawrence J. Vale
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 0674044576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years. First, Vale highlights startling continuities both in the way housing assistance has been delivered to the American poor and in the policies used to reward the nonpoor. He traces the stormy history of the Boston Housing Authority, a saga of entrenched patronage and virulent racism tempered, and partially overcome, by the efforts of unyielding reformers. He explores the birth of public housing as a program intended to reward the upwardly mobile working poor, details its painful transformation into a system designed to cope with society's least advantaged, and questions current policy efforts aimed at returning to a system of rewards for responsible members of the working class. The troubled story of Boston public housing exposes the mixed motives and ideological complexity that have long characterized housing in America, from the Puritans to the projects.
Author: Mark Robert Schneider
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013-06-11
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 155553807X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first biography of the popular, long-serving congressman from South Boston
