West End Museum Keeps Beloved Boston Neighborhood AliveHuffPost Actor Leonard Nimoy, media magnate Sumner Redstone, singer Buddy Clark, and film icon Joseph E. Levine, whose involvements as a producer, distributor or financier included The Lion in Winter, The Night Porter, The Producers, The Graduate and Carnal Knowledge, hailed from the same, near mythological, once-upon-a-time Boston neighborhood. “We weren’t Jews,…
3 Thing’s For Wednesday: Fall Haze, Bridge Design Meeting, DiMasi CaseNorth End Waterfront Italian Heritage Month Film: Todo Modo. Party leader and power broker Aldo Moro, holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes while being led by a Jesuit cleric in spiritual…
3 Things For Tuesday: Aerial Shot, FOCCP Meeting, High End Eastie & Bruce!North End Waterfront 6:30pm Italian Heritage Month Honors at West End Museum. Honoring current and former West Enders of Italian heritage who have contributed to preserving the culture of the West End and its rich immigrant history. This year’s honorees: Michael W. Cataldo (posthumously)…
West End Museum Hosts 7th Annual Italian Heritage Month CelebrationPost-Gazette The West End Museum is hosting events celebrating Italian Heritage Month for the seventh consecutive year. Prior to the demolition of Boston’s West End during urban renewal, many Italian-American families called the neighborhood home. The Museum honors this former little piece of Italy along with…
Museum Hosts 7th Annual Italian Heritage Month Celebration: Features Honoree Night & Film Series Boston, MA—The West End Museum is hosting events celebrating Italian Heritage Month for the seventh consecutive year. Prior to the demolition of Boston’s West End during urban renewal, many Italian-American families called the neighborhood home. The Museum honors this former little…
West End Social Planned at Museum on Sept 15Beacon Hill Times Original and current West Enders, your family and friends are invited to the next West End Social at the West End Museum on Thursday, September 15th from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Admission is FREE and light refreshments will be served. Come mix and mingle,…
Boston museums: 8 underappreciated ones to visitCurbed Boston Boston is home to some of the world’s most notable museums. But the city also hosts some lesser-known institutions of collective preservation, including one of the oldest military museums on the continent and one of the nation’s most prominent repositories of African-American history. This map pinpoints these…
Underground History: Author Talk Examines Boston’s Race Against New York to Build America’s First Subway and its Ties to the West End Boston, MA—Long before the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, Boston and New York were competing to be the first American city to build a rapid transit system underground. Boston won, establishing the nation’s first subway…
Precious Preservation: A look at the Museum’s archivesBy Henry White The collection of historical artifacts and documents in The West End Museum’s archives is one of the key sources for creating new exhibits and finding ways to teach Boston residents and visitors alike about the old neighborhood. The archives are a major part of the…
Will Urban Renewal Ever End?Next City Jim Campano was 18 when Boston tore his neighborhood down. The Jewish and Italian bakeries, the Polish church and the synagogues, the tenements and rowhouses — gone. Street corners bustling with teenagers, the Campano family’s sunny sixth-floor apartment on Poplar Street — erased by a government that called the…