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A column of young people representing VietAID marched up the avenue in the 2016 Dorchester Day Parade. Chris Lovett photo Parade follows historic trail By Chris Lovett hill could even become “a Special to the Reporter new place of pilgrimage The first observance for the tourist whose of Dorchester Day, in steps are annually bent June of 1904, took place toward Massachusetts.” under a tent on Savin In 1904, the preser- Hill. A celebration of vation effort earned local history and pride, a campaign promise it was also meant to from a recent trans- protect an urban wild plant to Dorchester, with a panoramic view John F. Fitzgerald, a from a frenzy of new former congressman development. who a little more than But by the beginning three years later, as the of the 20th century, the city’s first Irish Catholic fast pace of change in mayor born in the United Dorchester was hard States, designated the to ignore. Over the fifty hill as a park. years after its annexa- The 200 people who tion to Boston, in 1870, had “toiled up” the hill Dorchester’s population for the first Dorchester would increase more Day celebration were than ten-fold. And, even reminded that the old by 1910, more than town was home to the one-third of the grow- nation’s first free public ing population in all of school and that incu- Boston was made up of bator of participatory immigrants. A crowd of teens and kids watched the Dorchester Day Parade in 1979. Chris Lovett photo democracy, the town During this period, meeting. Among the de- Dorchester, connected the “streetcar suburb.” had changed, with the “mass meeting,” the later show a “last Indian tails of the day noted by to the rest of Boston by Despite all the growth, Irish being outnumbered Fields Corner Women’s camp.” From the top of a Boston Globe reporter: public transportation there were also signs of by Jewish and Italian Temperance League ral- the hill, there was a view lemonade provided for and water and sewer decline, or change of a immigrants. In 1914, lied support for a cap on of Dorchester Bay from women at the observance lines, was filling up with different kind. As early a Unitarian minister liquor licenses. the Neponset Estuary and, fluttering above the multi-family housing. It as 1891, the Dorchester in Grove Hall noticed A hill with a to the Columbia Point tent, a pennant attached was now easy to live in Antiquarian and Histori- fewer people at church. special legacy Peninsula and, beyond, to a kite that proclaimed, one part of the city and cal Society was down to A local newspaper, the For the Historical So- as if at the edge of a “Dorchester Day 1630- work in another. Too only three members. In Dorchester Beacon, listed ciety, the “long-neglected continent, to the Boston 1904.” remote and spacious to the same year, it would properties changing spot” known as Savin Hill Harbor Islands. For From below the pen- be an extension of the be succeeded by the lead hands, moving from had special meaning. It neighbors, the hill later nant, the reporter also Back Bay or the South organization behind the families with names was the piece of “wilder- became a destination for heard state Rep. Guy End, but no longer a self- first Dorchester Day, the like Brooker, Hutchins ness” where settlers who underage drinking and a A. Ham talk about the contained community, Dorchester Historical and Greenwood to those arrived from England in treacherous magnet for present day, lamenting Dorchester had become Society. with names like Weiner, 1630 had built their first broken glass. But, as one that, since Dorchester the hybrid that would By 1910, even the mix O’Loughlin, and Mu- fort—and where an ar- account of the first cel- had become part of the later seem oxymoronic— of Boston’s new arrivals gardichian. And, at a chival photograph would ebration envisioned, the (Continued on page 18B) Page 2B THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENt May 30, 2019 dotnews.com DOT DAY ’19 The Official Dorchester Day Parade Roster This is an alphabetical listing of participants updated through Tues., May 28. It is subject to change.

Alejandra St. Guillen, Candidate for Dorchester Food Coop National Lancers John Schneiderman and his wife Janice. Boston City Council At Large Dorchester Not for Sale New England Wailers Althea Garrison, City Councilor Dorchester People for Peace New Magnolia Jazz Band Andrea J. Campbell, Dot Out Next Birthday Project Dot Day Parade’s Boston City Council President Dynasty Production Nick Collins, State Senator Angelie Mcgrath, East Boston Savings Bank Pretty Gurlz Club chief marshal Young Miss Dorchester East West Mortgage Priscilla Flint Banks, Candidate Ayanna Pressley, Erin Murphy, Candidate for Boston City Council, At Large takes the stand United States Congress for Boston City Council At Large Providence Brass Band A Q&A with John Schneiderman Bay Cove Human Services Estrellas Tropicales Quincy-North Quincy Band Benjamin Franklin Institute Fields Corner Main Street River Street Civic Association By Elana Aurise of Technology Firehouse Dixies Roberto Clemenete Dancers Reporter Staff Bernie Vision 2020 First Baptist Church Roma Band Musicians Q. Chief Marshal, can you tell me what Dorchester means to you? Boston Bowl Frank Baker, City Councillor South End Dynamite A. I was recently asked what I meant when I Boston Emergency Medical Services Fuerza Internacional Dance Group Spartans DBC jokingly said I was going to coin a new phrase to be Boston Emergency Medical Services Gretchen Haase, Mayor of Dorchester Standish Village added to Dorchester By Choice (DBC) and Originally Honor Guard Herb Chambers Strolling Hobos from Dorchester (OFD). The new phrase, DWAC, Boston Fire Department Hot Tamale Brass Band Suffolk County Sheriff stands for Dot Without Any Choice. Boston Fire Dept. Honor Guard Jeffrey Ross, Candidate Tempo International When I was first introduced to the woman who is Boston Party Adventures Characters for City Council At Large The New Liberty Jazz Band now my wife of 36 years, Janice Marie Mullen, she made it perfectly clear that if we were to be married, Boston Police Gaelic Column Jha’niyla Tinker, Little Miss Dorchester Titan Majorettes she would never uproot her two children and move Boston Police Department John Schneiderman, Chief Marshall Tony Barrie Band to where I came from, or anywhere else for that Boston Raiders Youth Football & Cheer Julia Mejia, Candidate for Uncle Sam Jazz Band matter. So, the choice was made, and to this day I Boston School of Music Arts Boston City Council, At Large Unknown Hype Marjorette have no regrets whatsoever. Boston Windjammers Kenny School Marching Band Uphams Corner Health Center Q. How have you celebrated Dorchester Day in Boston Windjammers Concert Living Art Unc. Vietnamese American Community past years, and what significance does the day carry for you? Carney Hospital Martin J. Walsh, Mayor of Boston of Massachusetts A. I remember when I attended my first parade CASH Army ROTC Mass IPOB USA Sufffolk County Waltham American Legion Band in June of 1983. I was amazed. I had no idea of the Codman Square Health Center McCall Ambulance Waymark Church scope of this great event. In those early years, we Colonial Pipers Bag Pipe Band Michael Flaherty, City Councillor Worcester Brass Band had the family BBQ in our backyard on King Street. Disabled American Veterans Michelle Wu, City Councillor Worcester Sound & Lights All of my wife’s family came back to Dot that day Dorchester Brewing Company Mike Ritter/Ritterbin Photography Work Inc and we had loads of good clean fun. I knew that I was in the right place and never ever thought about leaving. This was going to be my home. In 1985, we bought the home where we still 115th Dorchester Day Parade/Sun., June 2nd, 2019 reside here on Ashmont Street. In the next couple of years, I was asked to coach Cedar Grove youth Starts 1:00 pm from Dorchester Lower Mills along Dorchester Avenue to Columbia Road baseball. We won our first and only championship in 1987. Some of the players on my team were Chris O’Sullivan, who went on to play in the NHL for a Happy Dorchester Day number of years before retiring and taking a job with the BPD. Then there was Ed Kelly, who went from the on to become the general secretary and treasurer of the International Association of Fire Fighters with Dorchester Day Parade Committee an office in DC. Whenever Edzo and Chris see me, they still call me “coach,” which is a great honor; it’s This year we honor as our Chief Marshal John Schneiderman nice to be remembered. In fact, they just recently We also congratulate our 2017 Mayor of Dorchester Gretchen Haase had a reunion at The Industry with a group of guys Little Miss Dorchester - Jha’Niyla Tinker who grew up together here in Neponset, and I was invited. It was a great night to see how all of these Young Miss Dorchester - Angelie McGrath boys grew up to be so successful. Q. You have served in other civic positions, like 2016 PARADE E-BOARD PARADE COMMITTEE president of the Pope’s Hill Neighborhood Associa- President: Kelly Walsh Gloria-Ann Vieira Pat O’Neil tion (PHNA). How do you think that service impacted Vice President: Marty Hogan Cynthia Pape Gene Gorman the neighborhood? Parade Clerk: Dieu Phan Joe Zinck Eugenia Soles A. In 2005 I was introduced to Phil Carver, then Secretary: Brianne Gore Christine Hogan Pam Smith president of PHNA, and I soon found out the value Treasurer: Peter Sasso Paul Nutting Barbara Trybe of neighborhood associations. Phil was passionate Judge Advocate: Karen MacNutt (in memoriam) about our neighborhood and taught me what that At-Large Director: Chris Isabelle-Hogan value is. I became an executive board member and At-Large Director: Carol Houghtaling attended every meeting. We all had a voice in what At-Large Director: Colleen Walsh went on in our neighborhood. In 2011, I took a bigger role and became vice Gold Sponsor ($5,000) - Herb Chambers president when then VP Mike Juliano stepped Bronze Sponsors - Sullivan & McLaughlin, Laborers’ Local 223, down. I learned about development issues and got Building and Construction Trades Council of the Metropolitan District, to have a bigger voice in what I call “protecting Cornerstone Realty, UA Local 12 Plumbers & Gasfitters our neighborhood.” When Phil stepped down in Character Breakfast Sponsor - Lucy’s American Tavern and The Bowery Bar 2015, I was elevated to president and found myself Senior Lunch Sponsor - Eden’s/South Bay in a position where I could substantially make a difference in my neighborhood. I’ve always said We want to thank all of those who helped out with fundraisers for the parade and those who work transparency and honesty is what I believe in, and throughout the year to put the parade on the street. Especially our parade sponsors. I think I’ve proved that. 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The contestants, past winners and current winners (seated, center) of the Little Miss Dorchester and Young Miss Dorchester contest were all gathered inside First Parish Dorchester on Sat., May 18. Councillor Annissa Essaibi-George is shown at top left. Photo courtesy Sonia Essaibi Young Miss, Little Miss Dorchester to ride in parade By Elana Aurise annually for girls ages 7 This year’s Little Miss were runners-up to Miss and they were so excited, Meanwhile, in the Reporter Staff to 12 in the weeks lead- Dorchester is nine-year- Tinker. but the nerves were 10-12 age division, The annual Little ing up to Dorchester Day. old Jha’Niyla Tinker, a “Jha’Niyla and one there. When Jha’Niyla this year’s Young Miss Miss and Young Miss The competition – orga- third grader at Match of her younger sisters, won, she looked at me Dorchester is Angelie Dorchester contests took nized by City Councillor Community Day Charter who also competed, both and was just so happy, McGrath. Samantha place on Sat., May 18, Annissa Essaibi-George School who loves art, spent a couple of weeks she said later that she Forster was the runner- Margaret Janulewicz and her family – is meant competitive cheerlead- practicing their essays almost cried.” up in the Young Miss and Janessa Cosgrove to motivate girls to have ing, singing in Mat- using hairbrushes as Tinker was presented category. were runners-up for confidence in public tapan’s Greater Victory microphones,” said Jas- with a brand-new bike – As is tradition, the Little Miss Dorches- speaking while celebrat- Temple Church choir, mine Tinker, Jha’Niyla’s one she will share with winners will ride in a ter, at the First Parish ing the love young women and riding bikes. mother. “The day of the her sister – together with convertible near the Church in Meetinghouse have for Dorchester and Margaret Janulewicz contest, they were wear- the customary trophy, front of Sunday’s parade. Hill. The contest is held its traditions. and Janessa Cosgrove ing the dresses I got them sash, and tiara. Dot Day, Stephen Lynch_Layout 1 5/24/2019 11:15 AM Page 1 Page 6B THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENt May 30, 2019 dotnews.com

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By Jasmine Braswell Reporter Correspondent This Dorchester Day will bring another round of exclusive t-shirt designs for Sunday’s parade. The neighborhood’s premier apparel company, College Hype, produces shirts that bring it all home for people from the neighborhood — or people who wish they were. Since 1987, College Hype has been producing t-shirts, hoodies, hats and accessories with a customized approach. There have been some popular parade day sell- ers like the classic “Dot Rat” and “Parishes of Dorchester,” which has been a hit seller for some 25 years. The newest Dot Day t-shirt designs from College Hype include a patriotic theme. Image courtesy College Hype The College Hype online shop — and its and has been the owner star-pattern with pa- Village still stocks a in the neighborhood of Dorchester for years retail space on Gallivan for 32 years. triotic colors. Another popular throw-back, incorporated into a big and they’re very proud Boulevard—offers about “We do have a new features emojis with the the “All Roads Lead to letter “D.” of their roots and they 40 themed Dorchester shirt this year that I slogan “It’s Dot Day.” Dorchester” shirt with “You have a lot of want to promote that,” clothes and hats, many think people will really The store in Adams the name of every street people who’ve been out said Doherty. festooned with street like. It’s ‘Dorchester, signs, three-deckers, Where My Story Began,” and other neighbor- said Doherty. “I think hood iconography. An we’re inspired every in-house art department year, honestly, just be- is on call for customers cause we were from here, who want to create their myself and a number of own design and have the managers are from a custom look to any this area, and we know apparel. that people like to have a Jack Doherty, the unique shirt every year.” founder and owner of “Dorchester Day is College Hype, has been a great time to see old enjoying Dorchester Day friends and make new and selling shirts at the friends,” said Doherty, gas station between “I think it’s a great Hallet and Gallivan Bou- holiday to see the old levard for more than 30 neighborhood.” years. The St. Gregory’s Some of the new de- parish native started the signs include the DOT company when he was 20 name emblazoned in a Page 8B THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENt May 30, 2019 dotnews.com Wishing your family a Happy Dorchester Day Happy Dorchester Day!! Best Wishes for a Happy, Safe, & Healthy Summer

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And in 1942, with the country at war again, 200,000 people were on hand for a parade that included infantry from Fort Devens and a float that encouraged the reporting of enemy aircraft. “As evidence that gasoline rationing is being felt,” The Globe added, “several horses and buggies appeared in the parade.” In one of the buggies was Frankie Kelly, the youngest lieutenant governor in Massachusetts history. The self-described father of the state lottery, Kelly was best known for filing bills 29 years in a row to establish a Massachusetts sweepstakes that promised a windfall in tax relief. Even after he drew the state’s first lottery ticket in 1972, he continued to ride in the parade as one of its most enduring political curiosities. After the war, a matter of ‘routine’ The parades resumed in 1948, after a hiatus during the later war years. As late as the 1960s, there were still reviewing stands for mayors and governors. But there was also an impression that the event had become more routine. As early as 1923, The Globe had mentioned “exercises” and field events while noting that “the occasion was at one time observed with great ceremony.” There were also changes in the parade route. The earlier routes had included Codman Square, Uphams Corner, and a stretch of Dorchester Avenue, ending at Fields Corner, with marching units crossing or going parallel with the trolley tracks. By the late 1960s, the parade route was usually along the avenue, but going north to south, from Columbia Road to Pierce Square in Lower Mills. By the 1970s, the direction had been reversed, and parade units marched with the sun at their backs. Boston Billy Melchin, Dorchester’s official town greeter, in the 1980 parade. Chris Lovett photo In 1967, despite an attempt to ban political (Continued from page 1B) constructive or healthful than horse racing, except signs, the first line of march comprised members of Boston’s all-white school committee, at a time city, “the district and the citizens as well had lost baseball.” During the first decade of reports on the Dorchester when the city was already embroiled over the racial much of their identity, as well as their pride and divide in education. In 1968, the June 9 parade was interest in their home.” Day celebrations, there was no shortage of superla- tives, from “biggest” to “best yet,” with as many as “postponed indefinitely,” out of respect to Robert F. Another speaker at the first celebration, Rev. Kennedy, who had been assassinated three days Peter Ronan, the pastor of St. Peter’s parish, was 75,000 people viewing the parade and as many as 20,000 watching the fireworks. earlier. concerned about the spread of dense, transit-oriented As late as the 1980s, the parade featured one other housing. Three years later, at the 1907 Dorchester In 1911, there was landing of a Burgess-Wright biplane at Franklin Field, piloted all the way from office-holder: the Dorchester Town Greeter. With his Day Banquet, he was applauded for warning about top hat, red jacket, white trousers, and two-toned the spread of “three-apartment houses” and for Squantum by Harry Atwood, who had invited Mayor Fitzgerald to join him. The first try at landing had shoes, “Boston Billy” Melchin presented himself as asserting that local residents “did not want such the affable gate-keeper to a Neverland as foreign things to mar the spot where the first settlers of to be put off because of weather conditions. By the time Atwood touched down, at the center of the field, to spectators along the avenue as it would have the now great district landed.” been to 17th-century settlers. If the parade came Accounts of the early celebrations contain no the last horse race was coming to an end, and the police details had already left the site. “The crowd to one of its all-too-frequent stops, he would stand explicit references to changes in religion or ethnicity with one hand in a white glove holding a sceptre among Dorchester residents, nor to the hardships swarmed around the machine, gazing upon and feeling it,” The Globe reported. “It was feared that the tipped with the town seal, and the other greeting and persecution that were driving many of Boston’s an imaginary multitude, as restless kids swarmed newest immigrants out of Europe. But, in his speech machine would be torn apart by souvenir hunters.” Shifting times, shifting focuses the avenue or sped off on bikes and skateboards. at the 1906 celebration, former Boston mayor Josiah The parade as a message board Quincy acknowledged that the settlers of 1630 Over the years, Dorchester Day celebrations were consistently affected by more passing developments, Over the last 40 years, the parade has been used were fleeing tyranny and civil war. “The settlers of as a platform for messages of all kinds. In the 1980s, New England,” he explained, “were half colonists, half refugees.” Although he stopped short of any comparison with more recent immigrants, Quincy suggested that the hill should be the site of an “enduring monument,” a tower with a commanding view of the harbor that would embody a “loftiness of the historical outlook. “Whoever has absorbed its true spirit,” he said, “has escaped from the transient interests of the hour and regarded for a while those vaster issues and movements which sketch their shadows across the centuries.” Celebration becomes extravaganza In 1906, under Mayor Fitzgerald, the city spent $2,000 on Dorchester Day activities—supporting everything from the main parade to horse racing, water sports, and fireworks. The first celebrations also included band concerts and a regatta, and a torchlight parade led by the Dorchester High School baseball team. Flags were displayed on verandas and housetops. In 1907, at his home on Welles Avenue, Fitzgerald put up bunting and, between two large American flags, a “great Irish flag.” With a cast of fortune-tellers, dodgers, and “fakirs” hawking balloons, popcorn, ice cream, and soft drinks, the celebrations were not immune to transient interests. Fitzgerald took part in carriage races organized at Franklin Field by the Dorchester Gentlemen’s Driving Club, as did his rival and successor, James Michael Curley. In 1916, after rolling the first ball on a new bowling green, The Globe reported, Curley “said he knew no sport more A parade float entered in 1987 by former presiding justice James Dolan to call for a permanent expansion at Dorchester District Court, instead of the overflow trailers. Chris Lovett photo dotnews.com May 30, 2019 THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENt page 19B

View from the firehouse at Peabody Square, 1979. Chris Lovett photo a trailer dramatized the long wait for badly-needed expansion of the Dorchester District Courthouse. In 2015, a parade unit promoted the designation of Boston as a host city for the 2024 Olympics. Over the last decade, another contingent, “Dorchester Not For Sale,” has been drawing attention to local residents being displaced by gentrification. Joined by ranks of veterans for most of its history, the parade has also served as a platform for the anti-war message of Veterans for Peace, who would continue to march into the 21st century, after military engagements in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In the early 1990s, after racial diversity had become very noticeable in the avenue’s storefronts, Boston City Councilor Albert “Dapper” O’Neil gained notoriety for taking exception to the influx of Vietnamese immigrants into Fields Corner. In 2008, he achieved the unique distinction for a politician of being represented in the parade posthumously - by a black 1967 Lincoln Town Car bearing his name in green and orange on a sign that said “The legend lives on.” But “Dapper” was outlasted by the presence and investment along the avenue of Dorchester’s Vietnamese-Americans. Over the years, the parade has shown that change can lead to improvisations. Around 1980, a re-enactment of the arrival of settlers at Savin Hill A perch above Dorchester Avenue, 1983. Chris Lovett photo Beach included a local Unitarian minister and a local family dressed as 17th-century “pilgrims”—along in the other direction: a rolling identity that, while crowds are noticeably thinner. with a Catholic priest. As pastor of First Parish as local as ever, borders on the panoramic. To finish the walk on a Sunday in June is to work Church—established by Dorchester’s first religious History as predictor of the future up a sweat and feel thirsty, if not altogether fatigued. congregation, Rev. James K. Allen was known for The pursuit of the history of Dorchester Day can At the corner of East Cottage Street, you go inside his devotion to local history and support of local civic also point to the future. In 1914, when the Dorchester Patty’s Pantry and find it crammed with people groups, but he also allowed his church to be used Beacon was already noticing that the celebrations buying cold soft drinks. Almost 40 years ago, on for gatherings by refugees who came to Dorchester had become less elaborate, the president of the the other side of the avenue, you maybe dropped in from southeast Asia. Dorchester Historical Society, Frank D. Young, for a beer at Vaughan’s Tavern (now the Banshee), If uniforms and costumes are a constant in the arrived on the scene after driving 3 hours and 70 where a bust of Bobby Kennedy was flanked by a parades, they also highlight changes, whether miles in his car. It was a little too soon to imagine pair of rifles right behind the bartenders. Inside donned by veterans, active military units, Little how the streetcar suburb of Dorchester would be the bar, there’s too much noise to hear what the Leaguers, Pop Warner players, or marching bands. transformed by the mass production of automobiles, veteran is saying to a teacher young enough to be The same goes for other contingents who have federally funded highways, and federally guaranteed his daughter as he points to the medals on his chest. marched in recent years: Estrellas Tropicales, the mortgages. But that year, barely three weeks before They’re surrounded by a crowd of people who live Roberto Clemente 21 Dancers, traditional Irish events leading to a world war, Young paid respect to in Dorchester, people who used to live there, and dancers, and Vietnamese-American contingents the settlers of 1630 while warning about the dangers people who could be somewhere else in a few years. with lion dancers and martial arts displays. Others of anarchy and hailing his commute by vehicle that Outside, along a quiet avenue just swept and have previewed coming attractions on the calendar: day as a sign of “swift moving progress.” sprayed by street cleaners, there’s no pennant at- the Caribbean American Carnival and, in floats Fast forward to another decade, and the celebra- tached to a kite, though another reporter in another changed every year by DotOut, the Boston Pride tions overlap, rippling out from marchers to specta- year might have noticed an escaped balloon riding celebration. The common denominator has been tors crowding the avenue, tiered on porch decks, or a breeze that, like the parade, goes from south to the element of carnival—a stream of appearances, regrouping for backyard cookouts. To walk down the north. As it pulls away, its shadow skipping from one enacted once a year by people who are something avenue from south to north is to see what is new building to next, it gets smaller and smaller until else in everyday life. and what has disappeared. Some churches, stores, there’s nothing left but a speck reflected against the As the parade has changed over time, so does its and restaurants no longer exist. Also missing are sunlight in a deep blue sky. sense of history. Originating more than a century several no-frills bars, some notorious as magnets The Dorchester Historical Society helped greatly ago from a pursuit of a fixed identity in the past, for spectators requiring intervention by police. And, with this report by providing access to news accounts Dorchester Day’s premier event has also reached as with the celebrations in many communities, the of the parade’s first decades.

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www.massleague.org Page 22B THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENt May 30, 2019 dotnews.com The story behind Dorchester’s Town Seal By Peter F. Stevens the early wars with the With many residents the cornerstone of the Special to the Reporter Indians, with the French still hoping to fend off foundation of this town, In April 1865, Dorches- in colonial days, in the further incursions by although they did not ter’s Town Meeting took War of the Revolution, Boston, a who’s who of arrive here until early in up an important civic in the Shay’s Rebellion, prominent Dorchester June of that year.” measure - “to procure…a in the last war with men - Edmund J. Baker, To the rear of the Corporate Seal of the England, and in the Edmund P. Tileston, seal’s church, another town.” Many modern dreadful war so lately Nathan W. Tileston, rude, thatched structure residents of Dorchester gloriously closed.” and others - formed a appeared on the shield. are familiar with that A town seal, in the committee to design The second structure seal, which is embla- opinion of people from a town seal in April represented Dorches- likely identify the scene’s respectful memory of zoned with the words Neponset to Savin Hill, 1865. Joining the effort ter’s first school. inspiration - the Blue Dorchester in Old Eng- “Dorchester 1630” and would help “sacredly was Dorchester’s Anti- “The free school,” Hills. The 1865 commit- land, of whose seal this the Latin motto “Pietate, preserve the beautiful quarian and Historical Edmund Baker and his tee, testifying to those is the principal charge Literis, Industria” – Pi- tribute of her citizens Society. colleagues asserted, “the slopes’ importance to (in commemoration of ety, Learning, Industry – to the memory of sons, The contingent de- system of which has been the town’s early devel- that borough having but some may not realize who, in obedience to scribed their purpose: exerting a beneficial opment, asserted: “In been formerly a Ro- the depth of thought that early instructions, and “Your Committee have influence over the whole the background will man fortress), and from the men at that 1865 inherited purpose in sought to emblazon upon country, was established be recognized the Blue which place the infant town meeting put into morality, patriotism, the Town Seal such a de- in this town in 1639, and Hills, which served as colony derived much of its the enduring and proud and humanity, have laid vice as would symbolize is said to be the very first a landmark to pilot the strength, both physically symbol. down their lives on the the acts which rendered free school in the world. early settlers to the and spiritually.” A range of political, altar of their country.” the early settlers of this The foundation of this mouth of [the] Charles A banner draped be- historic, and civic con- Along with patrio- town a peculiar [particu- institution is recognized River, and from behind neath the castle and siderations compelled tism, a large band of lar] people, and objects of on the shield…” which the rising sun is along the top and sides Dorchester’s leaders to Dorchester’s residents gratitude and veneration In another image en- shining upon a colony of the shield bore the want a seal testifying to hoped a local seal would by their descendants for graved upon the shield, who left their homes in motto “Pietate, Literis, the town’s unique history reinforce its status as all time to come.” the committee cited the the mother country, not Industria.” The words and sense of place in an individual town, for The centerpiece of portrait of a “rude mill, as adventurers in search represented a direct Massachusetts. With the in 1865, the prospect of the committee’s design with its large wheel, of gold, as exiles, or for link between the early Civil War coming to its annexation by Boston was a shield embossed which is seen upon the conquest, but the more settlers and the residents savage end, and with so was on the horizon. (The near its base with the left bank of the Neponset precious boon of religious of 1865, words reflect- many Dorchester fami- town voted to approve image of a rough-hewn, River, the course of which liberty.” ing values passed down lies having lost fathers, annexation and officially thatch-roofed church, river, from its source to A regal image mate- through the centuries.In sons, and brothers on joined Boston in 1870.) without a chimney. its mouth, lay through rialized atop the shield, the case of Dorchester’s the conflict’s far-flung Many locals already In explanation of the the ancient territory of soaring above the rolling town seal, the adage battlefields, local lead- lamented that in 1804, church’s significance in Dorchester.” contours of the Blue that a picture is worth ers wanted to extol the “that part of Dorchester’s Dorchester’s annals, the The image symbolized Hills. A castle with three a thousand words might town’s more than 250 territory lying upon committeemen noted: Israel Stoughton’s corn imposing turrets crowned well be revised: The years of contribution and her northern border… “The early settlers of mill, which he built in the slopes, the mill, the seal’s carefully chosen sacrifice and its unique including Dorchester Dorchester organized 1633 “by grant of land school, and the church. symbols are worth a place in the nation’s Heights,” had been ap- themselves as a church and timber by the town… Baker and company thousand words - plus history, to wit: propriated by Boston. at the New Hospital in and is said to be the first proudly summed up their three more that speak “The town of Dorches- In the 1850s, Dorchester Plymouth, England, in water-mill in the colony, castle as a fitting symbol volumes: piety, learning ter…the mother of free leaders had vainly strug- March of 1630, prior if not the country.” for the town: and industry. public schools, whose gled as “Washington to their embarkation Readers scrutinizing “The triple-towered This article was first patriotism and liberality Village was swallowed for this country, which the impressive back- castle surmounting the published in the Reporter have been so tried in up by the city [Boston].” act was pre-eminently ground of the shield will shield is adopted in in 2000.

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