Boston's old West End persists as a Place
Boston Globe
It’s 2012. It’s been more than 50 years since the demolition, between 1958 and 1960, of the vast majority of Boston’s old West End neighborhood.
The other day, the latest issue of the West Ender newspaper arrived in my mail.
Believe it or not, half a century after they lost their homes in a brutal example of so-called “slum clearance,’’ the surviving former residents of the West End still have a newspaper.
They now live scattered all over the map, and of course their numbers are dwindling. But as far as they’re concerned, they’re still members of a community.
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