When I was a young child of about age three, my dad bought a small cottage in New Hampshire. That purchase could have been considered odd, given the fact that we lived in an apartment in East Boston, rather than our own one-family home. Hindsight being what it is, it is clear that my dad […]
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I grew up in East Boston in a three-decker dumbbell tenement building. My grandparents lived on the first floor and we lived on the third floor. We spent a lot of time on the first floor with my grandparents and ate dinner there practically every night. My grandmother was a seamstress and worked piecework in […]
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I grew up in the city of Boston, in an East Boston Italian neighborhood, on Frankfort Street. On one corner stood a bar called The Airways, which was later named Cardinal’s Nest. On the other corner lived a convent of nuns affiliated with the Mount Carmel Church, where I served as an altar boy. The […]
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