All posts tagged "North End"
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9.2KBusiness and LaborSix Stops From the People’s Guide to Greater Boston
One of our favorite books of 2020 is the People’s Guide to Greater Boston, a tour guide that goes beyond the usual...
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67.2K8Arts and LeisureItalian Thanksgiving, or How One Ethnic Group Resisted American Food
The Italian Thanksgiving in New England was and still is a piece de resistance – a masterpiece of Italian and American cooking....
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6.4KMassachusettsGeorge Scigliano, Lost Leader of Boston’s Italian Community
George Scigliano won the reverence of Boston’s North End for vanquishing the money lenders, criminals and labor bosses who preyed on poor...
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19.9K4Arts and LeisureHow the Jewish Immigrants Came to New England
It’s an oft-told story about the Jewish immigrant who rose from poverty on New York’s Lower East Side to prominence through hard...
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11.9K2MassachusettsMario Buda, The Other Boston Bomber
On Sept. 16, 1920, an Italian immigrant named Mario Buda parked his horse-drawn wagon across from J.P. Morgan and Co. and down...
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11.5K1Crime and ScandalSacco and Vanzetti, Guilty After All?
When a judge sentenced two Italian anarchists named Sacco and Vanzetti to die for a crime they said they didn’t commit, an...
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