VOL. 124 - NO. 20 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 15, 2020 $.35 A COPY North End Feast Societies Baker-Polito Administration Announces Cancel All Scheduled Four-Phase Approach to Re-opening and 2020 Feasts and Processions Publishes Mandatory Workplace Safety Standards With no large public gatherings in the City of Boston being permitted this summer, city offi cials have consulted with the New Standards Will Apply to All Workplaces When Phased Re-opening Begins North End feast societies to cancel all of the scheduled 2020 feasts and processions. Four-Phase Approach to Re-opening Massachusetts

St. Anthony’s Feast (Photo by Matt Conti, NorthEndWaterfront.com)

The cancelation of the festivals is an unprecedented event, On Monday May 11th the as when it is safe to move into • Ensure frequent hand wash- as many have of the feast celebrations have continued for Baker-Polito Administration concurrent phases. ing by employees and adequate over 100 years through wars and depressions. St. Anthony’s announced a four-phase Additionally, the Department supplies to do so Feast celebrated its Centennial last year with Fisherman’s and approach to re-opening the of Public Health (DPH) and • Provide regular sanitiza- St. Agrippina now well past the 100-year mark. This year was to Massachusetts economy amidst the COVID-19 Command tion of high touch areas, such be the centennial feast for the Madonna Della Cava Society. Some the COVID-19 pandemic, Center, in consultation with as workstations, equipment, members are discussing virtual events or video-streaming small and published Mandatory the Re-opening Advisory Board screens, doorknobs, restrooms tributes during the summer weekends. Stay tuned. Workplace Safety Standards and based on feedback from throughout work site that will apply across all sectors industry, labor, and commu- For Staffi ng and Operations: and industries once re-opening nity coalitions, has developed • Provide training for employ- begins. Mandatory Workplace Safety ees regarding the social distanc- News Briefs The goal of the phased re- Standards to reduce the risk ing and hygiene protocols opening, based on public health of COVID-19 transmission as • Employees who are display- by Sal Giarratani guidance, is to methodically employees and customers begin ing COVID19-like symptoms do allow certain businesses, ser- to return to workplaces during not report to work What is Concerned Citizen Bobby vices, and activities to resume, the fi rst phase of re-opening. • Establish a plan for employ- while protecting public health These Mandatory Workplace ees getting ill from COVID-19 at Talking About? and limiting a resurgence of Safety Standards are appli- work, and a return-to-work plan Recently, the Boston Herald ran a full-page political new COVID-19 cases. cable to all sectors and indus- For Cleaning and Disinfecting: advertisement signed by concernedcitizenbobby.com. • Phase 1 will be “Start:” tries that will be open in phase • Establish and maintain It was your typical anti-Trumpster blaming President limited industries resume one, and create new work- cleaning protocols specifi c to Trump for the fact that there are still 98 percent of operations with severe place requirements for social the business Americans not tested. Yes, there are many folks with no restrictions distancing, hygiene, staffing • When an active employee symptoms who could still be contagious. I have no idea • Phase 2 will be “Cautious:” and operations, and cleaning. is diagnosed with COVID-19, where this ad was coming from when it starts comparing additional industries resume These standards are being cleaning and disinfecting must testing to the fact that during WWII our federal govern- operations with restrictions and released to give workplaces be performed ment was building fi ghter planes every seven minutes. capacity limits time to plan and prepare for • Disinfection of all common This foolish advertisement is useless. We don’t need a • Phase 3 will be “Vigilant:” re-opening. surfaces must take place at federally-run national testing program. Testing should additional industries resume For Social Distancing: intervals appropriate to said be left to the states to decide what kind of testing works operations with guidance • All persons, including workplace for each state and how many are needed to be tested to • Phase 4 will be the employees, customers, and For more information about fi nd out where we are in this COVID-19 fi ght. “New Normal:” development of vendors should remain at least the Mandatory Workplace th As of May 12 , 9,724,879 have been tested state to vaccine and/or therapy enables six feet apart to the greatest Safety Standards, go to mass. state. We are fi nding out that many have tested posi- resumption of new normal extent possible, both inside and gov/info-details/reopening. tive with either no symptoms at all or mild symptoms Businesses and activities that outside workplaces In addition to these Mandatory like the ordinary fl u. It appears that many have strong provided “COVID-19 Essential • Establish protocols to ensure Standards which apply to all immune systems that are fi ghting off the worse this Services,” per Governor Baker’s that employees can practice workplaces, the Re-opening virus has to offer. March 23rd order, will continue adequate social distancing Advisory Board is developing The real targets of this coronavirus are the elderly, to operate. Certain businesses • Provide signage for safe Sector Specifi c Safety Protocols especially those packed into large long-term health and activities with a lower risk social distancing and Best Practices that will facilities and even more so are those with serious under- of COVID-19 transmission • Require face coverings or detail how particular industries lying health issues. will open in earlier phases. masks for all employees should operate upon re-opening. We don’t need to test 328 million people and it is time Decisions and timing will be For Hygiene: The Re-opening Advisory for the Trump haters to stop telling the president to do influenced by public health • Provide hand washing Board is scheduled to provide his job. He’s doing it. Tell our governors to do theirs. metrics for when the fi rst phase capabilities throughout the its full report to Governor Baker Pataki is Right on Cuomo of re-opening begins, as well workplace on Monday, May 18th. And NY’s Nursing Homes Democrats across the country are praising NY Gov. THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFIC Andrew Cuomo but former Gov. George Pataki blasted his successor’s nursing home policies and called 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON Cuomo’s nursing home policy a “disaster” that may have Tuesdays 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM and Thursdays 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, (Continued on Page 11) Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, MAY 15, 2020

Res Publica by David Trumbull

Bristol County Jail Incident has Democrats Salivating, Launching Multiple Investigations THE VESTALS Massachusetts Republican Nothing in Rome is said to be They were dressed entirely in Party Chairman Jim Lyons more ancient than the institu- white, with a coronet-shaped weighed in May 6th on a Bristol tion of a maiden priesthood. As headband (infula), ornamented County jailhouse riot allegedly was mentioned in a previous with ribbons (vittae) suspended sparked by illegal alien inmates issue, the worship of Vesta goes from it, and also a white veil or refusing COVID-19 testing, after back to the time when it was hood (suffi bulum) made from a Bristol County Sheriff Thomas diffi cult but necessary to obtain piece of white woolen cloth with Hodgson quickly became the fi re. The sacred fi re, the source purple border. target in several announced of all Roman life and power, was It is here that the resemblance investigations. kept alive in an edifi ce known as ended for instead of poverty and “On one hand, you have our the Temple of Vesta, and it was obedience, the Vestals enjoyed Democrat Attorney General constantly tended by a group great independence and luxury. Maura Healey, who cannot of virgin priestesses that were They were exempt from the com- resist an opportunity to use her known as the Vestals. mon law, and not even subject offi ce to go after anyone and In Rome, their number started to the censor’s authority. They anything remotely connected at four, and was increased enjoyed a most conspicuous to President Donald Trump,” to six about the time of the Vestal Virgin by Jean Raoux, freedom, having the right to hold said Lyons. “And on the other early Republic. During primi- The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, property and make a will. These hand, you have the Democrat- Bristol County Sheriff tive times, the possession of Russia, between 1677 and rights alone exceeded those of dominated Massachusetts state Thomas Hodgson fi re was the greatest gain that 1730 the average female of the times. Senate Post Audit and Oversight man had yet made, and to lose The Vestals also enjoyed great Committee, also announcing an “What all of these demands for it was the greatest misfortune The number of Vestals cor- political importance, often inter- investigation.” investigations have in common for the community. The chief, responds to the idea that they posing to save a life, to restore Lyons believes that both is that they have been made or the so-called king, fulfi lled were originally the daughters of harmony at critical moments, or investigations are driven by by Democrats who obviously a most important duty towards one family, and that they were even to carry out the provisions Democrats with a political have it in for Sheriff Hodgson,” his people by keeping a fire the king’s daughters is trace- of important wills. Death was agenda, who are salivating over Lyons said. “It’s all too telling always burning from which able to their position of honor the penalty for injuring them, the opportunity to go after some- that when a group of inmates they could at any moment in the Roman State. They have and anyone whom they escorted one like Sheriff Hodgson for runs amok and causes $25,000 kindle their own. Nothing could been compared with the nuns was also protected from assault. enforcing the very laws enacted worth of damages, while putting be more natural than for the of the Roman Catholic Church, Meeting them by chance in the by Congress. He points out everyone in that situation in chief’s unmarried daughters and the Atrium Vestae has been street also saved any criminal that Healey’s offi ce has previ- danger, the radical Democrats’ to be placed in charge of this called their convent. There was who was being led away to ously called out Massachusetts refl exive impulse is to go after precious hearth, under the a close resemblance in their punishment. U.S. District Attorney Andrew Sheriff Hodgson.” protection of Vesta, the goddess vow of chastity and the cutting NEXT WEEK: Lelling for daring to prosecute It’s also telling that when of fi re. of their hair. More about the Vestals a Newton District Court judge a Salem District Court judge for helping an illegal alien facing actively put people’s lives in drug charges evade immigration danger by releasing a parade of offi cials. dangerous felons, one of whom 2020 Census Healey submitted a brief went on to murder a cop in The Census is critical for the can respond to the 2020 Census at risk of an undercount. We on behalf of the state last Maine, the same Senate Post City of Boston to receive funds online or over the phone in 13 need a complete and accurate September claiming the charges Audit and Oversight Committee in a variety of different areas. different languages. count because all of Boston “represent an extraordinary was nowhere to be seen. I have also provided the core • Responses to the 2020 deserves to be seen, heard, and unwarranted attack on These actions were committed information to share as well. Census are safe, secure, and and invested in. the independence and integrity by illegal immigrants inside a Thank you in advance for all of protected by federal law. of our courts.” Meanwhile, a prison who refused to coop- your help. Your answers can only be John Romano, North End, chorus of federal lawmakers, erate during a public health • Boston depends on your used to produce statistics and Waterfront, and West End led in part by Massachusetts emergency, deciding instead household to respond so that cannot be used against you Liaison for Mayor Martin J. U.S. representatives Ayanna to destroy the place and try to our communities get their fair by any government agency or Walsh Offi ce of Neighborhood Pressley and Joseph Kennedy trigger a riot, and the knee-jerk share of federal funding and court. The Census Bureau can’t Services, 617-635-4987. 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OUR POLICY: To help preserve the ideals and sacred traditions of this our adopted country the United States of America: Overview of new design for Northern Avenue Bridge To revere its laws and inspire others to respect and obey them: To strive unceasingly to quicken the public’s sense of City offi cials gave a design civic duty: In all ways to aid in making this country greater preview of the new Northern and better than we found it. Avenue bridge to the Wharf District Council in a presenta- tion entitled “Boston Bold: A People First Experience.” Costa Fruit & Produce The old Northern Ave. bridge was deemed a navigation haz- Donates Thousands of Fresh ard by the USCG (United States Coast Guard) and closed in Nutra-snack Kits to Healthcare Workers 2014. After preliminary meet- An Industry leading ings, offi cials said the bridge produce and specialty would be rebuilt with a “people- foods purveyor based in fi rst approach,” limiting usage Boston, Costa Fruit and to pedestrians and cyclists. Produce is donating Fresh That decision has since been Nutra-Snack kits for local revised to include emergency City’s evolving stance on shared bus lane on Atlantic Avenue hospital workers in the vehicles and dedicated bus/ transit. would help to prevent potential Boston area. shuttle service. With sentiment being gauged, gridlock. The Nutra-snack kits Appearing via Zoom, Chris residents polled and positions WDC member Joanne Hayes- are produced at Costa’s Osgood, the City’s Chief of laid out by several organizations, Rines asked whether a new onsite, SQF certifi ed pro- Streets and Joseph Fleury, the cost factor associated with traffi c light would need to be cessing facility, Fresh Principal Bridge Engineer, accommodating full vehicular installed on the Atlantic Avenue Ideas and then sent to described the project’s his- traffi c attracted its fair share of side. Jayasinghe replied that area hospitals to help keep tory and design principles. controversy, with prior estimates a signal warrant analysis had their staff nourished dur- Acknowledging the current state for a 42ft one car-lane costing been performed, with current ing these unprecedented of the bridge from a structural between $56-100 million, while data indicating that a new light times. The contents are washed, sealed and ready to eat for work- standpoint (referring to certain a 56ft option with two available is unnecessary. Sublevel work ers on the go. parts of it as Swiss cheese), motor vehicle lanes costing is being performed in case the “Healthcare workers are putting themselves at risk every day Osgood outlined rehabilitation upwards of $110 million. situation changes. fi ghting the COVID-19 virus. In appreciation of their heroic self- efforts and drew comparisons Jayasinghe was challenged Possible directionality issues less effort we are happy to help where we can.” Said Manny Costa, to work done on the nearby by the WDC on whether enough were highlighted, with many CEO, Presidents Costa Fruit & Produce Congress Street Bridge. The Nutra-snack kit contains fresh fruit, juice and yogurt. Costa The newly chosen design is also providing their drivers with Nutri-snack kits for a healthful makes use of what are referred snack option as they service essential workers throughout New to as “ribbons” dividing bridge England. traffic in two. The harbor- About Costa: facing side will be exclusively A privately owned company, Costa is a produce and specialty for pedestrian use, while the foods purveyor serving fi ne dining establishments throughout second side facing the Moakley New England. bridge will serve a single bus/ In addition to offering a complete line of fresh products that shuttle line as well as cyclists include fresh fruit and produce, dairy and value added fresh cut and emergency vehicles. produce; Costa works closely with local farmers and producers Choosing to place cyclists in bringing a wide variety of local artisan items such as cheese, meats, the bus and emergency vehicle and hors d’oeuvres to their diverse customer base. lane was a decision reached Costa is a sustainable business leader certified by the with pedestrian safety in mind, Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts and has been a according to City Engineer Para modeling had been done to fully wondering whether there had recipient of the Boston Green Business Award for their support Jayasinghe. account for potential impacts to been enough analysis per- of local agriculture and green initiatives. Referencing the debate revolv- everyday commutes especially formed to measure results in For more information about Costa Fruit & Produce go to ing around the exclusion of in and around Atlantic Avenue. terms of emergency traffi c. freshideas.com or contact Costa at [email protected]. single-use vehicles, Jayasinghe The need for clearer differentia- Offi cials anticipate construc- explained how ongoing civic tion regarding the designated tion to begin in early 2021 engagement has shaped deci- lanes was put forward, and with a ribbon-cutting slated sion-making, along with the it was asked if a dedicated for 2022. North End/Waterfront Neighborhood Council (NEWNC) Announces New Members The North End / Waterfront Neighborhood Salvati). Leaving the council this year by not Council (NEWNC) has announced six new mem- running for re-election is longtime member and bers, each who will serve a two-year term as past President John Pregmon. part of the volunteer community organization. Instead of the usual candidate/new member The newly appointed/re-appointed members, in introductions, NEWNC intends to distribute rel- alphabetical order, are: Kevin Drew, Joel (Jody) evant biographies for the new and reappointed Faller*, Kevin Fleming, Rory Harrington, Brett members in the near future. We will post these Roman*, Marie Simboli* write-ups on NorthEndWaterfront.com. Offi cers No election will be held this year because there for the upcoming term will also be determined as are only six open seats on the council so each well as committee heads. candidate is automatically appointed. Because NEWNC advises the City of Boston on issues of COVID-19 restrictions, NEWNC previously affecting the quality of life in the North End / revised the normal nomination plan and loosened Waterfront area including, but not limited to, the signature requirements given social distanc- land use, development, clean streets, parking, The opinions expressed by our columnists and contributors are not necessarily ing protocols. public safety, residential & commercial expan- the same as those of The Post-Gazette, its publisher or editor. Photo submis- sions are accepted by the Post-Gazette provided they are clear, original photos. The six new members join the current six sion, and food & beverage licenses. There is a $5 charge for each photo submitted. Photos can be submitted via members, each with one year remaining in their If you have any questions or need additional e-mail: [email protected]. If you want your photos returned, include a self- terms (Damien DiPaola, Tania Green, Carmine information, contact [email protected]. addressed, stamped envelope. Guarino, Ashley Leo, Tina Natale and Michael *incumbent PAGE 4 POST-GAZETTE, MAY 15, 2020 L’Anno Bello: A Year in Italian Folklore Springing into Holiday Fun by Ally Di Censo Symynkywicz THINKING Note: L’Anno Bello is reprinting articles that were written before the Coronavirus pandemic. OUT LOUD Obviously, advice on gatherings and reunions contained within are not applicable to this current time by Sal Giarratani when social distancing is the best practice. Please read these articles as a testament to the joy and love that imbues Italian celebrations — and as suggestions for ways to spend time in the future once this pandemic is fi nally over. Government Leaders celebrated with eating dairy- Really Screwed Old People, Didn’t They? based foods. Ascension Day is also the time for the Festa del I can not believe how badly The number of deaths reported Grillo or Cricket Festival, in our political leaders from the at the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home Florence. During this festival, Oval Offi ce to Capitol Hill to all has increased to 36, with 29 of children buy cages with pictures our State Capitols, to city and those deaths linked to the coro- of crickets or toy crickets inside. town halls across America were navirus, officials announced As symbols of spring, the cricket asleep at the switch when we Monday. is thought to bring good luck. were hit by this train wreck. A spokesperson for the facility Another popular saying in Italy Everyone seemed to start off said that 31 other veteran resi- warns against doing any sort of on a misstep and we have dents have tested positive and work on Ascension Day, as it is been playing catch-up since. 57 employees have also tested considered a day too holy to be Recently, Speaker Nancy Pelosi positive. marked by labor. All of these folk threw all the blame on President New York State, as of April customs, therefore, offer a view Trump when in fact Democrats 19, concedes that 3,060 resi- into the values that character- like herself never saw it coming dents of nursing homes, rehab ize Italy during spring. The use either. She was still running centers, and other long-term of milk and crickets speak to a into San Francisco’s Chinatown care facilities are known to have It is hard to pinpoint when food and laughter and tradi- sense of gratitude for the coming telling everyone to enjoy the had COVID-19 deaths. This is I fi rst came under the spell of tion. Another important aspect of spring and the health of live- Lunar New Year celebration. outrageous. holidays. The folklore, customs of holidays involves the way stock, while the ancient prohibi- Boston Mayor Marty Walsh did The same thing is happen- and traditions of festivities have they connect us to people all tion against work signifi es the pretty much the same thing ing right here! Just look at the inspired me since I was young. around the globe. The customs importance of Easter as a time here. Now is not the time to play Holyoke Soldiers Home, a state- I think this passion fi rst blos- and folklore that people hold of hope and renewal in Italian the blame game. run facility where the death somed inside me when I looked dear, no matter how diverse, culture. Italian Ascension Day However, I do think that count is 74 thus far. If we are at brand-new calendars and all refl ect universal dreams and traditions encapsulate why I everyone in power and in the going to blame Trump, you bet- encountered unfamiliar holi- collective desires, ranging from love holidays so much, as they know should have known that ter add NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo days, like Candlemas and May warmth to harvest to communal offer a respite from everyday life, the elderly and those with com- and our own Gov. Charlie Day. As I began to investigate protection. The winter feasts celebrate the universal enthusi- promised health in long-term Baker, too. these holidays, I found that they of Christmas, Hanukkah and asm for spring and vibrate with living facilities would be easy Where were all our so-called brimmed with unique traditions Kwanzaa all emphasize the unique folklore. targets for the virus. Much more leaders back in early March that offered indelible glimpses theme of the rebirth of light Celebrating holidays grants action should have been done when the fi rst large outbreak into cultural traditions, like the shattering the darkness, while us all the opportunity to focus to protect this population from of the virus in the United States Spanish custom of eating twelve spring festivals such as Easter, on the more important things what has become the terrible was at the Life Care Center in grapes on New Year’s Eve to Passover and May Day celebrate in life, like family, love, food crisis we are seeing today. I Kirkland, WA attributing to the Swedish practice of build- the resurgence of nature and and the wondrous cycle of the already know fi ve older friends 26 deaths to the virus before th ing bonfires on Midsummer. the importance of fertility in year. Holiday festivities don’t who died from complications March 8 ? My love for holidays also crops. Finally, holidays provide have to be lavish or extravagant; from COVID-19. Long-term care Crowded long-term care facili- coincided with my rediscov- a window into the fascinating in fact, the most meaningful facilities needed help, so what ties were sitting ducks just ery of my Italian heritage and customs of world cultures. celebrations involve the sim- broke down? Weren’t our lead- waiting for residents to get sick with the help of my father, I Holidays in my Italian house- plicity of being close to the ers listening for the reported and what strategy was being explored how Italian celebra- hold are synonymous with Earth and close to loved ones. cries for help? put into place to protect this tions revealed the mindset of panettone for Christmas, giant I encourage everyone to take According to Boston Globe vulnerable population from my ancestors and contributed chocolate eggs for Easter and time out of their schedules, columnist Joan Vennochi, what has happened to them? to my identity. My year is now zeppole for St. Joseph’s Day. even if just for a few minutes, “Nationally, nursing homes and There’s lots of blame to go peppered with many holidays to These tidbits of folklore make to honor a special day. Make a veterans’ homes are epicenters of around. I am angry and so celebrate and many traditions the holiday experience so much recipe with spring ingredients COVID-19 contagion, account- should everyone else. I hope I hold dear, from major feast richer because they connect like asparagus or strawber- ing for one-third of related those reading this are just days like Christmas and Easter me to a long line of history and ries. Drink a glass of milk on deaths. In Massachusetts, as angry as I am. There is no to smaller fetes like April Fools’ ancestry. Ascension Day. Mix old tradi- COVID-19 deaths in long-term excuse for what happened to the Day and St. Michael’s Day. I On May 21st, the people in tions with new customs that care facilities account for nearly most vulnerable among us. It love celebrating customs from Italy will celebrate Ascension hold special meaning in your 60 percent of the state’s tally, was like putting folks on a slab cultures all around the world, Day, or Festa dell’Ascensione. life. It really does not matter and the deaths at the Holyoke of ice and sending them out in for I believe that holidays are Part of the Easter festivities, how you celebrate holidays, but facility currently rank as the to the Arctic Sea and forgetting reminders of the traditions that this holiday falls 40 days after rather that you recognize that highest in the country. about them. make us individually proud and Easter and commemorates all of us, all the citizens of this the universal desires and hopes the day Jesus ascended into world, share the same desires that unite us all. Heaven. Like all Italian holidays, for sustenance and comfort and st There are several reasons as Ascension Day is associated affection. More than anything Happy 81 Birthday to why I love holidays so much. with a number of folkloristic else, that is the true lesson of One is that they force us to take traditions. According to some holidays. time out of our busy schedules of my father’s research, the cus- Nino DiAnni and really focus on the world tomary food of Ascension Day is Ally Di Censo Symynkywicz around us. During holidays, milk, because it is believed to is a high school history teacher. everything actually feels dif- absorb the magical properties She appreciates any comments ferent. The ordinary somehow of the day and acquire purifying and suggestions about Italian seems extraordinary and a mys- abilities. This reminds me of a holidays and folklore at tical force fi eld pushes us into Jewish spring holiday, Shavuot, [email protected]. the company of our family and which honors the day God gave friends, into gatherings of good the Torah to Israel and is also LEGAL NOTICE EXPORT ENTERPRISES Richard Settipane TOWING NOTICE TO OWNERS Insurance Services Notice is hereby given under the pro- visions of (M.G.L. c255 Section 39A) Public Insurance Adjuster of the sale or disposal of the following motor vehicles to satisfy our garage FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS keeper’s lien for towing (M.G.L. c155b Section 6B) storage & expense for Since 1969 holding sale of auction. 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During these past weeks when life changed as we knew it due to this virus this couple has been working hard and long to keep this business (their life) up and alive. What they have been doing has been replicated in many other places near and far. My longtime friend in Quincy, Steve Obey has owned OB’s Diner on Billings Road in Anna’s Donuts still open for business the Norfolk Downs Business District in North Quincy. He Over the past seven or so opens up the place at 6:00 a.m. weeks with the State’s economy every day for take out orders shutdown as part of the larger and he too is surviving but with national economic lockdown diffi culty. and stay in place and social I tell him I am helping to distancing orders over 34 mil- keep his place alive one coffee lion Americans have lost their at a time. I hope we will soon jobs including one million Bay see the light at the end of the State workers tunnel because the pain we are When all is said and done, living through needs to end and maybe between 25 to 40 per- quickly. cent of local businesses will Creative advertising to draw never re-open and of those that in customers helps, too (Photos by Sal Giarratani)

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was found and was returned to George Parkman was a prominent business- Library purchased a copy of the drawing in Pontoise. man and philanthropist in Boston. He is 1938 for its collections. Walter eventually appealed best known for donating land to Harvard Webster was convicted and executed in to Pope Gregory VII asking to Medical College (now part of MGH) and his August 1850. The case was unprecedented be relieved of his duties. The murder in that very location. because it was the fi rst time a jury was asked Pope counseled him to make Parkman was born in 1790 into the to identify a body “beyond reasonable doubt”, good use of the talents God prominent Parkman family. After inher- and pioneered new ground in scientifi c and had given him and told him to iting his father’s estate he became one circumstantial evidence. For this reason, never again run away from the of Boston’s most visible businessmen, and the general intrigue surrounding the monastery. Walter took that as landowners, and benefactors. George case, Parkman’s murder was the most a defi nitive answer and gave up was a friend of John James Audubon (of sensational case for its time. Often com- on looking for a way out of his the Audubon Society), who named the pared to the O.J. Simpson Trial, it was public ministry. Parkman Wren after him, and is also the covered in the entire Western world. More After coming back to Pontoise, namesake of Parkman Street (along with his than 60,000 spectators rotated through Walter worked hard to combat father, Samuel). the public gallery every ten minutes. An corruption and the lack of George gifted Harvard lands in the West incredible media blitz generated many discipline among his monks End for the construction of Harvard books in response, and present-day and the clergy of the region. Medical College, which opened in media about the case includes new This angered many who cap- 1846 (only the foundation remains, documentaries and an iPhone app. Walter was born in the year tured and imprisoned him. He now part of Massachusetts General Even now, some are still debating the 1030, in Andainville, Picardy, was eventually released and Hospital). That building was the site facts of the case, and whether or not France. He was well educated resumed the work he began, in 1849 of George’s murder, dis- Webster was actually guilty. in general, and a professor of devoting himself more to prayer, memberment, and disposal by Dr. Parkman’s home now serves as the philosophy and rhetoric before asking God to grant him the John Webster, the Erving Professor Mayor’s Offi ce Reception Hall in of Chemistry at Harvard. The the Beacon Hill neighborhood. becoming a Benedictine monk strength to persevere. murder took place in the Harvard The home is said to be haunted at Rebais (diocese of Meaux). As he aged, he increased laboratory that Webster worked due to a plumbing issue that Later in his career as a monk, his devotions and disciplines. in, and parts of a body, including false teeth, were occurred years after the murder, and because of his intellect, and It is said that he rarely sat down discovered at the site, disposed in a furnace, a is featured in a tour led by the Boston Ghosts the fact that he was fearless in while praying in Church; he tea-chest, and a privy (a bench with holes, serving company. speaking to those in power, he would lean on his staff instead. as a toilet). A rough sketch of the laboratory was Read more about the Parkman Webster Murder became much admired. King He would often be the last offered as evidence in Webster’s trial, with each of Case at https://thewestendmuseum.org/the- Philip I noticed his natural abili- man to leave the monk’s night the disposal sites marked. The Harvard Medical parkman-webster-murder-case/ ties and appointed him abbot of prayer, lost in contemplation, a monastery in Pontoise against and sometimes would fall asleep Sourced from PBS – The Parkman Family; Wikipedia; Parkman Genealogy; Boston Ghosts; The West End Museum; Center for the History of Medicine Walter’s will. Walter didn’t there to be discovered in the have much choice, so he obedi- morning in a heap on the fl oor. ently accepted his new position. Walter passed away on Good The honor that he received Friday in 1095. Miracles at his NEMPAC Moves its 2020 Perform-a-thon from his new position and the tomb and by his intervention lack of discipline at the new approved almost immediately Online to Benefit Music Scholarships monastery made him anxious. by Bishops of Rouen, Paris and He had always desired a life of Senlis in France. The North End Music & Performing Arts Center silence and prayer, so he fl ed He was Canonized in 1153, by (NEMPAC) will host its 6th to a distant monastery, hoping Hugh de Boves, the Archbishop annual Perform-a-thon for to escape his responsibilities. of Rouen. The Feast Day of Music Scholarships and His monks found him, and Saint Walter of Pontoise is Educational Programs on brought him back to the monas- March 23rd. Saturday, May 30th, ALL DAY tery. He tried a number of other He is a patron saint of prison- online through Zoom. NEMPAC escapes as well attempting to ers, and of those who experi- will schedule back to back per- live in solitude on an island, but ence job-related stress. formances throughout the entire day and are encouraging every student to participate. Using the same platform as their success- ful Online Open Mic Community Nights that was launched in early April, they aim to have thousands logging in through- The NEMPAC Youth About NEMPAC: PPastaasta & PastryPastry ShopShop out the day to catch and support Scholarship Fund provides The North End Music their favorite performer. This need-based tuition assistance & Performing Arts Center Perform-a-thon online event to students from North End, (NEMPAC) is a 501(c)(3) com- features prepared Italian specialties is open to the public and will Charlestown, and surround- munity music school and a pro- include raffl es, silent auctions ing neighborhoods of the City fessional performing arts center for you to pick up, heat & enjoy! and special hosts. of Boston. Students are given with a strong focus on serving • Hot prepared Food delivery + pickup in East Boston Executive Director, Sherri awards to pursue artistic stud- the North End, Charlestown, ‹7SLHZLUV[L!3`UUÄLSKSVJH[PVUPZMVYcold prepared Snow, says “NEMPAC is here ies in private music lessons, and surrounding neighborhoods for our community during these summer programs, or an after- of the City of Boston by making Food pick up only uncertain times. We will ensure school program of their choos- quality music and arts program- that every child receives an equal ing. NEMPAC strives to reach ming accessible for all. 282 Bennington St., EB 9[:V\[O3`UUÄLSK opportunity to participate in high- families regardless of fi nancial As a music school, NEMPAC 617-567-1992 781-592-5552 quality artistic programming or status through free or low-cost reaches over a thousand stu- Open Daily 8am-3pm Open Daily 8am-4pm experiences next year. Whatever private lessons and class pro- dents per week, offering music we raise from the Perform-a-thon, grams. An August 2019 study education programs across visit spinellis.com for menu we give right back in need-based determined that NEMPAC’s pri- several art disciplines including youth scholarship awards or vate instruction rates are 30% dance, movement, and theatre. use to provide low-cost or free lower, on average, than com- As a highly-respected perform- program opportunities at our parable music schools in sur- ing arts center, NEMPAC pres- school partnership sites. We’re rounding areas. This year, due ents public concerts and pro- very excited to continue this event to their expanding programs and fessional performance projects On Sale Now! — and especially showcase all school partnerships, the need each year involving hundreds of that our wonderful students have for scholarship support has local Boston artists. been learning at home.” never been greater. All proceeds NEMPAC believes we are THE NORTH END Students and faculty partici- from this event will directly all musicians and performers Where It All Began pants of the Perform-a-thon are benefit the NEMPAC Youth and prepares individuals to be collecting pledges through the Scholarship Fund; help retain the best version of themselves The Way It Was “Pledge Me” campaign. Students exceptional faculty; expand through music education pro- had already begun collecting and sustain our programs; and grams and transformative artis- by Fred Langone pledges in February and early maintain tuition costs that are tic experiences. March before the campaign was lower than any other community Social Media: put on hold due to COVID-19. music school in and around the Follow us on social media SALE PRICE NEMPAC will offi cially relaunch City of Boston. for real-time coverage at pro- $19.95 the campaign on May 3rd. For more information about fessional performances, music Students are suggested to collect this event, please contact Allie school updates, and content Plus Shipping & Handling at least fi ve pledges to support Meek-Carufel, Educational curated especially for artists: the NEMPAC Scholarship Fund Programs Director, at ameek@ Facebook: @NEMPACBoston, On Site at and educational programs. To nempacboston.org or call Instagram: @NEMPACBoston, The Post-Gazette support your musicians, please 617-227-2270. Twitter: @NEMPACBoston, 5 Prince Street, North End, Boston, MA visit www.nempacboston.org/ To learn more, please LinkedIn: North End Music & performathon. visit www.nempacboston.org. Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) POST-GAZETTE, MAY 15, 2020 PAGE 7 Mrs. Murphy . . . As I See It On the Aisle Big news! decision because he was the Coronavirus is one that declared his city to be alleged to be a “Sanctuary City.” One can THEATRE NOTES manmade! The assume Curtatone made this White House is decision because he’s aware BY BOBBY FRANKLIN investing the allegations ... We’ve many of Somerville’s illegal learned that between 2014- population have not been vac- 2019, the National Institutes of cinated making them suscep- An Interview with Author Len Abram Health (NIH) awarded a portion tible to the virus, and passing Hi Len, thank you for speak- in some of our neighborhoods. of $3.7 million to EcoHealth it on!!! Also the Mayor of Lowell ing with us at The Boston I think I speak for them in my Alliance, a global environmental imposed a $300 fi ne, another Post-Gazette. writing. health nonprofi t organization, city with mucho illegal people Post-Gazette: You have Post-Gazette: Tell us a little helped fund research at the … Let’s revue welfare and food written three novels — The about your journey to becoming Wuhan Institute of Virology in stamp abuse. There are so Medallion, Debris, and your a novelist. China, now believed to have many people on Welfare allow- latest, Empty Doorways. While Len Abram: I love reading created the coronavirus pan- ing their debit cards to be used Debris is a historical novel, stories and I learned that I love demic. Yes, our taxpayer money for anything and everything how would you describe The telling stories too. I have a PhD went to aid the creation of the of pleasure other than what Medallion and Empty Doorways? in literature and taught for seven coronavirus. According to alle- the card is meant to be used. Is Empty Doorways a sequel to years, four of them in the Far gations Doctor Anthony Fauci Selling food stamps is popular The Medallion? East for the U.S. Armed Forces maneuvered millions of our among recipients of Welfare. Len Abram: Thanks for this education program. I ended up tax money to China. Fauci, the What is the taxpayer to do???? opportunity. Debris, A Novel of as a tech writer in computer nation’s top infectious expert, Especially when they have to Love, War and the Lusitania, networks when there were no again dismissed the idea that stand by and witness the abuse required research: from the poli- teaching jobs. a lab in Wuhan was the origi- … There is plenty of free food tics and strategies that shaped I have always written essays nal source of the virus, and donated by different organiza- World War I, to the ship designs and book reviews, along with insists the virus originated in tions for the needy, elderly, or that made the Lusitania so fast, my technical writing. One day an animal and then transmit- people stricken with the virus, to the German submarine U-20 I left work, which was next to ted to humans. However, he but like anything else, there are that sunk the ship, killing 1200 South Station, and I noticed the maintained over the years that those who don’t need the help, passengers and crew. I learned the State House, we might see its cabs lined up for fares. I had an a pandemic would be coming. but are there in line with their that spies on the New York docks golden dome as our highest ide- idea about a taxi cab driver, an The truth is the experimenting car to cash in on the freebees targeted the ship for attack. I als we climb to reach. If beyond immigrant from the Ukraine, for viruses in the Wuhan lab … Kudos to The Salvation Army fictionalized who those spies our grasp, we continue to try. who risks his life while pursuing got out of hand. According to who are always there to help were, how they got there, and Post-Gazette: Tell us a little the American Dream. I wrote a sources, scientists in Wuhan people. Besides the Red Cross, what happened to them. about the characters that are paragraph, and showed it to a were injecting bats with the The Salvation Army is one of the The Medallion and its sequel common to both books. How did friend. “Why don’t you do some- virus at the Bio-weapons Lab best organizations this country Empty Doorways are contem- you come up with the names for thing with this?” he asked. That when horseshoe bats got loose, has today … Most complaints porary detective stories. Like them? Their personas? started me writing novels. and was never reported. One from consumers during the most people, I get my informa- Len Abram: My three major Post-Gazette: Writing is a wonders if this was done inten- pandemic! Not being able to tion from reading newspapers or characters are taxi driver Sasha tough job that takes a lot of tional to halt our economy. reach vendors during this pan- watching TV news about crimes Denisov and Detectives Ben discipline. How do you structure After an investigation President demic? ... Channel 7 investiga- in metropolitan Boston. I did Schwartz and Al Di Natale of your creative time? Trump pulled money from the tive reporter reported recently take several courses in gun use Boston PD Homicide. Len Abram: I joked to another World Health Organization. that a lot of organic produce and gun safety, how to operate Immigrant Sasha Denisov writer when my third book was His next move should be to sold at Whole Foods is from and fi re the Glocks my detectives grew up in the Ukraine, as did published: the victory of tenacity fi re Fauci!!! Wonder why the China. This brings consum- carry. A .357 pistol plays a role my parents and cousins. They over talent. Some truth in that. media hasn’t reported this ers to realize that we need to in Empty Doorways. The bullet served in the Russian army like One of the characters in Empty news???? … The good weather read labels and fi nd out where can go through an engine block. Sasha, but the cabbie was in Doorways is given a saying or is here, and people will be out our products are coming from I learned to load and fi re one. the Special Forces Spetsnaz, motto for his recovery from a in full swing letting down their … Joe Biden’s health advisor Post-Gazette: Is Boston after which he names his cab severe injury: Never Quit. guard! Continue to be aware Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel stated important in your stories company. Sasha’s name I drew I’ve had many setbacks and of the dangers the virus can that he doesn’t anticipate life because you live in the area from Ivan Denisovich, the every- many rejections about my writ- bring. Just be mindful and take fully returning to normal for and are familiar with it or is man character in Solzhenitsyn’s ing. I don’t know how much precautions … Mother’s Day another 18 months, based on there something special about novel of the Gulag, the Soviet talent I have. Someone has has come and gone without guidance from health profes- Boston that adds to the fl avor Union’s concentration camps. said that talent is everywhere. celebration, this quarantine sionals in the Trump admin- of your books? Like so many, Sasha fl ed his Whatever success is, it takes has gone this far!!! People need istration. The kind of normal Len Abram: The cabbie Sasha native land for a better life. more than talent. to let their immune systems where we go traveling, we go to Denisov gets many of his fares Ben Schwartz, an outstanding When I am writing a novel, I kick in ... Our dear Governor restaurants, we go to concerts, at South Station, one of two detective, is in his 50s, a couple work fi ve days a week, three to Charlie Baker announced he we go to religious services, we major Boston transportation of decades older than his partner four hours my limit. Right now, will lift the ban May 18th. Other go on cruises, until we have a centers. Not far from the sta- Al Di Natale. Originally from New I am in between novels, and just states sick of restrictions have vaccine that protects everyone. tion is the Boston Police head- York, Schwartz is Jewish, not finished a book review. That already opened … The Mayor That’s 18 months, it’s not going quarters at Government Center, observant like his wife Evie, but sharpens my skills while I am of Somerville, Joe Curtatone to be sooner,” Emanuel told where Detectives Schwartz and each year he goes to a synagogue thinking of my next project. announced there will be a $300 ABC News Chief White House Di Natale work. to pray for a murder victim, Post-Gazette: Will there be fine for anyone caught not Correspondent Jonathan Karl As realtors say, Location, loca- one of his cold cases, which he another or will you move to wearing a mask. It’s surprising and Political Director Rick tion, location. Like lives, stories is determined to close in The another topic? to learn the ultra, ultra liberal Klein ... Till next time. Stay have a context. Boston appears Medallion. Len Abram: Whether these Mayor of Somerville made this Healthy. in all three books. Even the his- Schwartz’s partner Al Di Natale, two detective books begin a torical novel Debris focuses on a with the lyrical Italian name, series — we’ll have to wait for the distinguished Boston family of is a former Catholic altar boy next novel on that score. But I — FOR YOU WHO APPRECIATE THE FINEST— the early 1900s. The Lindseys from Woburn. Di Natale is a am planning one. THE built the chapel on Newbury decorated Army combat veteran, Post-Gazette: This seems like Street in memory of their daugh- who distinguished himself as a something that could work quite ter Leslie and her husband patrolman to become a young well as a TV series. Any plans to Johnny Christy Stewart, drowned when the ship detective. Di Natale is very hand- adapt it into a screenplay? sank. To this day, weddings are some, an asset and a curse. His Len Abram: An editor and performed in the chapel. vanity may ruin his marriage. friend is a professional screen Orchestra The Medallion and Empty In Empty Doorways, Schwartz writer. We are talking about Doorways are set in today’s and he join the rest of Boston a series based upon the cases MUSIC FOR ALL Boston, its neighborhoods, such searching for a missing 12-year- of Detectives Schwartz and as Mattapan, and its surround- old boy from Mattapan. Di Natale. OCCASIONS 781-648-5678 ing cities, such as Cambridge. Post-Gazette: Why this topic, Post-Gazette: In closing, why The two books mention shared these characters? will people enjoy reading your events, but can be read in or out Len Abram: Many years ago, I Empty Doorways? of sequence. Major and minor taught eighth grade in an inner- Len Abram: One of the char- characters refl ect the ethnic and city Boston school. I told one dis- acters in the novel says that if we Mattéo Gallo cultural varieties that make up ruptive boy to stay after school cannot protect our kids, none of the communities of the city — as punishment. He couldn’t. He us is safe. If we cannot protect and add vitality and richness to had to meet his parole offi cer. Gabriel Clay in Mattapan, how o Appraisals life here. On parents’ night, the mother safe is any of us anywhere? From the Boston Common, of one of my black students, The cabbie, the teachers, the Sales & Rentals when we look up Beacon Hill at tall like the missing boy in parents and grandparents, the Empty Doorways, said to me, clergy, and of course the police, • DIAMONDS “Mr. Abram, please learn my like Schwartz and Di Natale, Real Estate ROLEX boy,” By that she meant teach are fi ghting to save the kids, ESTATE JEWELRY and maybe lead or infl uence her in effect, our future. That’s son. I think of all those parents worth writing about, and maybe 376 North Street • Boston, MA 02113 Bought & Sold and grandparents, who want the reading. Jewelers Exch. Bldg. (617) 523-2100 • Fax (617) 523-3530 best outcome for their children Jim (617) 263-7766 — and what they are up against Thank you, Len Abram. PAGE 8 POST-GAZETTE, MAY 15, 2020

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Too many died in brand-new featurette that an electrifying mix of music, nursing homes and all kinds explores the fi lm’s legacy and drama and dance that dazzles of long-term care facilities. I enduring popularity, plus new the senses as it touches the Harvest on Vine Food Pantry in Charlestown has seen lost fi ve friends to this virus interviews with Tom Cruise, pro- heart. Jennifer Beals stars approximately a 45% spike in people seeking the pantry’s because of their age and health ducer Jerry Bruckheimer and as Alex, a fi ercely determined services. care issues. We as a society did members of the cast of Top Gun: 18-year-old with one all con- not focus on those most likely Maverick. Fans can also enjoy suming dream to study at the MAY BRINGS OUT on May 4th, and my Uncle to get this virus and succumb a retrospective segment from Pittsburgh Conservatory of MEMORIES FOR THIS Nealy would have been 112 on to it. Hopefully, we learned a 2016 looking back at 30 years of Dance. Working during the day ALMOST TOWNIE Mother’s Day. good lesson! Top Gun. Additional previously as a welder, and at night as an I am quite sure many of my Old memories are great to No matter how long we released bonus content on the exotic dancer, Alex bravely pur- friends say, “I didn’t grow up hold on to, but making new live, we will not forget this disc includes commentary by sues her dream, undertaking in Charlestown, but always memories as we move forward period in our history. Nor producer Jerry Bruckheimer, an unforgettable journey that had strong family roots in this means living your life for your- should we. director Tony Scott, co-screen- reveals the power of her convic- great community.” I did live self and others. writer Jack Epps, Jr. and naval tions. Beals’ co-star was Michael in Charlestown for almost a WHEN BUSINESSES experts; Danger Zone: The Nouri as Nick Hurley. The fi lm dozen years between 1968 to START RE-OPENING Making of Top Gun; a look inside also features the Oscar-winning 1984, and made friends with Things will never be the same the real Top Gun; original the- song “Flashdance … What a community leaders back in as we begin to open up the local atrical promotional material; Feeling.” Presented in collect- that period like Bobby Wallace, economy. It won’t be like hit- music videos, and more. ible packaging that includes Dennis McLaughlin, and Joe ting a switch. It will take time. You can make it a Tom Cruise a foldout image and interior and Maggie Kent to name just Eventually things will move on marathon with two more action- artwork of key movie moments. a few. from the extreme measures packed favorites arriving on 4K Special features includes anew I believe the Harvest on Vine we are now taking. 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Featuring and bloody horror anthology Last Friday was May 8th, and out for them much more than some of the most spectacular told in three tales culled from history popped into my head local shops owned by local own- racing action ever captured on rocker Glenn Danzig’s long- while I was exercising during ers who hire local employees. SUPERMAN STRONG — Last fi lm, the movie further cemented running edgy comic imprint of a pantry break down at the Was the cure worse than the week, North Enders noticed Cruise’s star status. The new the same name. The fi rst seg- high school track. I recalled disease? The answer to this that the Tony DeMarco statue 4K Ultra HD release includes ment tells the story of a woman another May 8th (1962) when question may take some time had some new attire on. Tony a brand-new featurette looking with eyeballs for nipples, who the Charlestown Potato Shed to answer. was sporting a Superman back on the production with conjures a giant, murderous Fire destroyed a good chunk HOWEVER, scrub top and facial covering. Bruckheimer. albino man-spider every time of the neighborhood economy. WHAT I DO KNOWS IS ... Looks like COVID-19 is the Directed by Steven Spielberg, she falls asleep. In the second May 8th will always be in my None of us will come out of new Kryptonite. War of the Worlds (2005) cel- story, a disfi gured dancer col- memory since my Uncle Jim this time the way we entered it. (Photo by Sal Giarratani) ebrates its 15th anniversary in lects other women’s faces. The owned F.J. Ward Potatoes down 2020. Cruise took on the star- third and final segment is a at the sheds near the bridge to ring role in this contemporary take on the Elizabeth Bathory Cambridge. retelling of the H.G. Wells clas- legend, about a countess who I will always be a part of sic. The new 4K UHD/Blu-ray bathes in the blood of virgins Charlestown because I have Combo Pack includes access to in order to remain youthful. the community’s DNA. Oh, by a digital copy of the fi lm, along Presented by a mysterious the way, I just had my birthday with over an hour of previously woman named Morella (Kayden released bonus content, includ- Kross), and inspired by classic LEGAL NOTICE ing multiple behind-the-scenes horror cinematic anthologies featurettes, production diaries, such as Trilogy of Terror and Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court a look at the characters, and Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath. Probate and Family Court more. Glenn Danzig’s Verotika tells Middlesex Division CUNNINGHAM (DVD) three shocking tales on this 208 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02141 Magnolia Home Ent. three-disc set, each one more (617) 768-5800 Cunningham traces legendary horrifi c than the last. Docket No. MI20P1764EA American choreographer Merce ELVIRA: Estate of Cunningham’s artistic evolution MISTRESS OF THE DARK JANET PATRICIA DAVID over three decades of risk and (Blu-ray) Also Known As discovery (1944-1972), from Arrow Video JANET P. DAVID his early years as a struggling She’s Back! Elvira, Horror- Date of Death: February 22, 2020 dancer in postwar New York land’s hostess with the mostest, INFORMAL PROBATE to his emergence as one of the with this long-awaited, posi- PUBLICATION NOTICE To all persons interested in the above cap- world’s most visionary chore- tively bursting-at-the-seams tioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Joshua ographers. Cunningham deliv- special edition of her big screen M. David of Needham, MA, Petitioner Paul A. ers his spirit through excerpts debut. Elvira: Mistress of the David of Bow, NH, a Will has been admitted to informal probate. from 14 dances that highlight Dark! Having just quit her job as Joshua M. David of Needham, MA, Paul the dimensional relationships a Los Angeles TV horror hostess, A. David of Bow, NH has been informally among performers and settings, Elvira receives the unexpected appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the as he visually communicates news that she’s set to inherit bond. his groundbreaking concepts, part of her great aunt Morgana’s The estate is being administered under deep-rooted passion and pure estate. Arriving in the small informal procedure by the Personal Represen- tative under the Massachusetts Uniform Pro- genius. Diagrams and drawings town of Fallwell, Massachusetts bate Code without supervision by the Court. of Merce, and dancers, further to claim her inheritance, Elvira Inventory and accounts are not required to be unravel the intricate layers of receives a less than enthusiastic fi led with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration the visionary’s mind to offer reception from the conserva- from the Personal Representative and can and unforgettable tribute to one tive locals — amongst the, her petition the Court in any matter relating to the of the world’s greatest modern sinister uncle Vincent, who, estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties dance artists, in a breathtaking unbeknownst to Elvira, is in fact are entitled to petition the Court to institute explosion of dance and music, an evil warlock secretly schem- formal proceedings and to obtain orders ter- as this documentary immerses ing to steal the old family spell minating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal pro- audiences in the power of dance, book for his own nefarious ends. cedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, and equally transcends them Campy, quirky and stuffed to can be obtained from the Petitioner. into the essence of Merce’s the brim with double entendres. Run date: 05/15/2020 (Solution on Page 9) POST-GAZETTE, MAY 15, 2020 PAGE 9

by Marianna Bisignano

Would you believe it, this Maria, my great grandmother, with three other Italians and column is 29 years old today. feared that her youngest son one was leaving soon. He offered For centuries, one of the That means, I’ve written 1508 was growing up wild. She sent Babbononno the slot and my biggest food debates amongst columns entitled “Nanna and him to the parish priest to grandfather accepted. Antonio Italian Americans has been Babbononno” (29 x 52 = 1, 508). straighten him out and he was found Michele work as a furni- whether their legendary How it all started was because taught two trades. The priest ture fi nisher and Babbononno Sunday sugo should be called of an introduction to Pam taught him how to make fur- found work as a musician at “Sauce” or “Gravy.” Sauce Donnaruma, our editor and niture and how to apply differ- night. proponents claim the word publisher, at a dinner party at ent fi nishes on the wood. The Antonio did well as a plasterer, sugo translates to sauce, and Dean Saluti and Margie Cahn’s lessons were centered around and was bringing his siblings to gravy is a term that has never even been used in Italy. Gravy sup- home, roughly a month before I using hand tools, as electric- America, one by one. The next porters argue that sauce refers to a meatless marinara, and gravy began the column. I knew about ity hadn’t hit Foggia as of yet. one in line was his youngest sis- is the result of tomatoes merging with cooked meat juices. In Italy, La Gazetta del Massachusetts, The priest also discovered that ter, Giovannina (Nanna). When meat-based tomato sauce commonly served with pasta is not called this paper when it was printed Michele had an interest in Babbononno saw her picture, sauce or gravy, it is usually referred to as Ragu. There are truths to in Italian, as Babbononno was music and taught him drums he asked Antonio if he could both sides of this dispute, and several different views on how these a fan and, every week, used to and guitar. accompany him to New York to terms originated. While opinions may vary, there is one thing we read the articles and stories to Babbononno married at a intercept her when she arrived. do know for certain; it was Italians from Italy that created them! me when I was a child, trans- young age, but couldn’t make When they were back in Boston, In my family, “Sunday Gravy” was much more than just a pot lating them into English as he enough money to support his Michele and Giovannina began of delicious cuts of meat with tomatoes and spices. It was a recipe read. wife and young daughter, so, dating and eventually married. rooted in tradition, truly a labor of love. The process to make this That introduction to Pam he auditioned for the national They Anglicized their names to gravy was timely and usually began early Sunday morning. The resulted in her mentioning that band that was part of the Royal Michael and Jenny, and with aroma of meats, tomatoes, cheese and spices fi lled the air as the one of her writers was leav- Italian Marines. He lied about the birth of my mother, the gravy slowly simmered for several hours. Family would gather round ing the paper and she needed his age and height (4'-11"), family began to grow, next was the table and begin with antipasto, soup and bread. Followed by someone to take her place. I passed the audition and became Uncle Nick, then Antonio who macaroni and meatballs in one platter, and sausage, spareribs, had been writing a column for a marine. died early on, and then Uncle and braciola in another. Sunday dinner was a weekly tradition that the Musicians’ Union magazine, There had been a tradition Gino. began when my family fi rst came to this country. It was a day to Prelude for some time. My col- started by President Thomas Nanna found out that spend eating, drinking, and sharing laughter with those you love, umn, “A La Breve,” was about Jefferson which ended after Babbononno was widowed and it wouldn’t be complete without “Sunday Gravy”! the music scene in Boston, past Truman was out of offi ce. Each and had children living with and present. I was a third gen- year, the Italian Marine Band his mother in Foggia. She sent SUNDAY GRAVY eration musician in my family would come to Washington for them, and soon the family Domenica Ragù di Carne and knew the inner workings and serenade the folks in the included Grace and Paul. Grace Gravy Meatballs of the business, hence my writ- White House. Michele Contini and Nanna never hit it off, and ¼ cup olive oil 2 cloves garlic, peeled and ing stories about the men and was a drummer in the band she was soon gone from the 4 - 6 cloves garlic, peeled and minced women who musically enter- that arrived in 1896. Not long scene. Paul accepted Nanna as chopped ¼ cup minced onions tained locally. after the band came to the U.S., his mother and all was well with 1 onion, minced 2 teaspoons chopped fresh After Pam gave me the offer, I Babbononno received a message the Contini family. Babbononno 7 - 8 fresh basil leaves parsley spoke to Dad and Babbononno that his young wife died in child discovered none of his sons oregano 2 pounds ground meat (either a about my problem. What should birth. He was beside himself were interested in making or salt and pepper to taste combination of beef, veal and I write about if I accepted the and resigned his position. After finishing furniture, but also 1 ½ pounds sweet and hot pork or all beef) job? I told them that I didn’t the band left Washington, he discovered all were musically Italian sausage 1 ½ cups fresh breadcrumbs think the Post Gazette readers bounced around the east coast talented. As a result, Uncles 2 pounds spareribs (beef or pork) (you can use seasoned) would be interested in sto- for a time. He headed fi rst to Paul and Nick learned clarinet 1 recipe meatballs (see below) ¾ cup grated parmesan cheese ries found in my “A La Breve” New Orleans where there was a and saxophone, and Uncle 2 (6 oz) cans tomato paste 2 eggs, beaten with a little bit column. Both Dad and my sizable Italian population, but Gino, drums. Paul would play 3 cans (28 oz) ground peeled of whole milk grandfather reminded me that I the police chief was shot and the a few nights per week and work tomatoes salt and pepper to taste grew up Italian, in an extended locals blamed the Italians. They as a printer by day. Uncle Gino’s 2 cans (28 oz) san marzano family. They added in that Post began to beat up any they could musical career would be inter- whole peeled tomatoes, Gazette readers, most of them catch and actually lynched 21 rupted by WWII, and he would crushed by hand Italian or Italian American, in one day, almost causing Italy give up playing once he was would identify with the antics of to break off diplomatic rela- discharged from the Army Air In a large bowl combine garlic, onions, parsley, salt and pepper, Italian grandparents, American tions with the United States. Corps. Uncle Nick played day breadcrumbs and cheese, mix well. Add ground meat, mix together born parents, Sunday din- Babbononno got out of there and night for the rest of his life. with hands, add egg mixture and continue mixing. If mixture is ners and growing up in East in a hurry. Heading back up My mother would meet a bass too wet, add more breadcrumbs and cheese. Roll into even sized Boston and the North End. So, north, New York was too busy player, John De Cristoforo, who meatballs, set aside. I accepted the challenge and and overwhelming for him, and worked with Uncle Nick. She In a large frying pan over medium heat, brown the sausages in my fi rst column appeared on hearing about Boston’s North would marry him three years the oil, followed by the spareribs, and then the meatballs (recipe is May 15, 1991, and was about End, he headed to our fair city. later. With a slight name change, above). Set meat aside on a large platter. Babbononno coming to America After arriving, he found the I was born in 1938, as John In the same pan, sauté the garlic and onions in the remaining fat in 1896. North End and headed to a James Christoforo, son of John until light golden brown. Add the tomato paste and cook for about Michele Angelo Contini, restaurant on Hanover Street and Anne Christoforo. We lived 5 minutes stirring frequently. Transfer this entire mixture into a Babbononno, was born in for lunch and became involved in Nanna and Babbononno’s large saucepan and add the tomatoes, basil, oregano, salt and Foggia, Italia, in 1875, the in conversation with a man at house on Eutaw Street in East pepper, and mix well. Add all of the meats and bring to a simmer. youngest son of Angelo and the next table, Antonio Ceruolo. Boston, eventually moving Cook uncovered 4 hours, making sure not to boil and stirring often. Maria Contini. My great grand- As the conversation progressed, to an apartment two houses Marianna Bisignano is a psychologist for the Boston Public Schools father passed away when Antonio revealed that he shared away, where we would stay and can be reached at [email protected] Babbononno was young and an apartment off Salem Street until Easter of 1961, and then head out to Belmont. I’m going to hold the story here as I have 8 a favor to ask. 
  The Committee for October ( is Italian Heritage Month and all other Italian organizations are asking for YOUR HELP. Our cause is “Boston For Italy Stay Strong.” Our founders, including Lino Rullo, our presi- dent, Richard Vita and I, past Chairman of the Board, are ask- YEARS ing for your fi nancial support. Anything you donate will help the folks in the land of our birth or ancestors. Make your check out to Lino Rullo for “Boston For Nanna & Italy Stay Strong.” Send it to Eagle Bank, 389 Hanover St. Boston, 02113, Attn.: Giselle DiPaolo and it will be sent to the Babbononno cause in Italy, the country most ravaged by the Corona Virus. Thank you in advance, (Mille Gracie in anticipo) GOD BLESS AMERICA PAGE 10 POST-GAZETTE, MAY 15, 2020 Boston Public Library Presents The Best Dahlias for a Backyard Cutting Garden by Melinda Myers

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The event will begin (4:00 –5:30 p.m.) their 100% virtual escape room with a rules explanation and Registration is limited to experience! A hardy cohort of may not last the full 90-minute teens ages 13-18; please DO up to 12 teens ages 13 through scheduled period. Please contact NOT register for multiple dates, 18 will venture together to a Teen Technology Coordinator but please DO register on the fantastic land which has fallen Chris Jacobs at [email protected] event waiting list if your pre- under the spell of a sinister with any questions. For bright, energetic bouquets, grow an assortment of red, ferred date is full. All regis- witch. Only by banding together Additional Details: This event orange, and yellow dahlias. trants will receive an essential can they hope to break her will be conducted online, and (Photo courtesy of Longfi eld-Gardens.com) confi rmation email prior to the curse in the 60 minutes before requires the use of free Zoom live event. the land is forever hexed! videoconferencing software. Dahlias are bold and beautiful fl owers that are easy to grow in any sunny garden. They are also spectacular in summer fl ower arrangements. With just a few dahlias, you can enjoy picking your Celebrate Endangered Species Day own fresh-cut fl owers every day from July through September. These spring-planted tubers make gorgeous additions to fl ower of several notable species such beds and even the vegetable garden. If space allows, the very best as the peregrine falcon and way to grow dahlias for bouquets is in a cutting garden. A back- bald eagle. Currently, there are yard cutting garden doesn’t need to be large. Even a 3' x 6' raised more than 400 native plants, bed will give you plenty of space for 6 to 8 full size dahlia plants. vertebrates, and invertebrates Planting dahlia tubers in rows lets you get maximum productivity that are offi cially listed under with minimal maintenance. MESA as endangered, threat- When choosing dahlias for a small to medium size cutting garden, ened, or of special concern in start by narrowing your choices. Select colors that you can imagine the Commonwealth. looking great together in a vase. This will make it easy to create lots 3. Endangered species are at of creative combinations on the fl y. risk of extinction. Rare species Eastern Spadefoot Choose red, orange, and yellow fl owers if you like energetic face many threats, including arrangements that mimic the colors of late summer and fall. habitat loss and degradation, in captivity for 8–9 months, Blossoms in cool colors and pastels, such pink, lavender and vio- climate change, disease, compe- producing yearlings that at the let, will be softer and more soothing. Include purple and burgundy tition with invasive species, and time of release are approxi- fl owers to add drama and help unify warm and cool colors. Northern Red-bellied Cooter pollution. Some rare species are mately the size of a 3-year-old Floral designers know that combining fl owers with different The 15th Annual Endangered only found in a few locations in the wild. The larger yearlings shapes and sizes makes arrangements more interesting. Dahlias Species Day will be observed on statewide with very specific are significantly less likely offer many options and it’s one of the reasons they are such a May 15, 2020 to recognize con- habitat requirements, making to be eaten by predators and popular cut fl ower. servation efforts to protect our them especially vulnerable. For therefore more likely to make it Ball dahlias have tightly curled petals and dense, perfectly round, nation’s endangered species. example, the eastern spadefoot to adulthood. Since 1985, over 3 to 4" fl ower heads. Varieties such as Sylvia and Jowey Mirella are Here are fi ve things you might is challenged by the species’ 4,450 headstarted turtles have perfect for adding repeating bursts of color. Decorative dahlias have not know about endangered very specifi c habitat require- been successfully released! the classic dahlia look, with 4 to 6" wide, open-faced blossoms and species: ments. First, as a burrowing 5. You can make a difference! orderly layers of petals. American Dawn and Great Silence are two 1. Endangered species live animal, they need loose, sandy, Help MassWildlife monitor rare reliable and versatile, decorative dahlias. in Massachusetts. The word or loamy soils that generally species by telling us when you The fl owers of dinnerplate dahlias can measure 8 to 10” across “endangered” may conjure lack stone. Second, to breed see them. You can also make a and these enormous blossoms make it easy to make stunning sum- images of polar bears or rhinos, and deposit their eggs, spade- big impact by donating directly mer bouquets. Popular varieties for cutting include Café au Lait, but there are endangered spe- foots rely on shallow basins to the Natural Heritage and Penhill Dark Monarch and Otto’s Thrill. Add texture and movement cies right here in Massachusetts! that have a lot of sun exposure, Endangered Species Program. to your arrangements with cactus dahlias. Varieties such as Yellow The Massachusetts Endangered fill with water as a result of Please consider making a dona- Star and Nuit d’Ete have tightly rolled petals that give the fl owers Species Act List protects 173 surface fl ooding, and dry out tion today of $4.32 to honor a spiky appearance. animals and 259 plants, includ- in a matter of weeks following the 432 animals and plants on Single and peony-fl owered dahlias are seldom seen at the fl orist ing crawling barrens tiger bee- inundation. These conditions the MA Endangered Species or even in farmer’s market bouquets because they don’t travel well. tles, whistling upland sandpip- don’t occur in tandem in many Act List. Find out more about But home gardeners can enjoy growing varieties such as scarlet- ers, and beautiful plants like places, and a number of sites reporting rare species and red Bishop of Llandaff or the melon and burnt orange fl owers of the ram’s head lady’s slipper. that once supplied suitable donating by visiting mass.gov/ HS Date. These plants tend to be compact and rarely need staking. From the big to the small, we habitat have been lost to devel- supportnhesp. Don’t let the many options overwhelm you. Consider starting care about protecting all of opment. MassWildlife’s NHESP Division of with an assortment such as the Flirty Fleurs Sorbetto Collection them! is partnering with residents, Fisheries and Wildlife (longfi eld-gardens.com). It includes fi ve varieties of pink and bur- 2. The year 2020 marks municipalities, and land trusts MassWildlife is responsi- gundy dahlias, specially selected by an experienced fl oral designer. the 30th anniversary of the to monitor and restore the last ble for the conservation of Most cutting garden fl owers are picked before they are fully open. Massachusetts Endangered remaining populations of east- freshwater fi sh and wildlife in But dahlias should not be harvested until they are fully open and Species Act (MESA). Over the ern spadefoot from inland areas the Commonwealth, including in their prime. To avoid crushing the stems, make your cuts with past 30 years, a lot has been of New England. endangered plants and animals. a sharp knife rather scissors. done for the native plants, 4. NHESP staff are dili- MassWildlife restores, protects, If you want your dahlias to have nice, long stems, take a cue from vertebrates, and invertebrates gently working to recover rare and manages land for wildlife to cut fl ower farmers. When harvesting for market or removing spent that are either at risk, or may species and their habitats. thrive and for people to enjoy. fl owers, they always remove the entire stem, cutting right back to a become at risk, of extinction. NHESP’s conservation efforts MassWildlife’s Natural main stalk. Though this means sacrifi cing some buds in the short MassWildlife’s Natural Heritage including research, land pro- Heritage & Endangered Species term, the next round of fl owers will have noticeably longer stems. and Endangered Species tection, habitat management, Program When selecting plants for this year’s fl ower garden, be sure to Program (NHESP) conserves education, and regulations, The Natural Heritage & include plenty of dahlias. These spring-planted, summer-blooming and protects the most vulner- has paid off for many rare spe- Endangered Species Program bulbs will take your homegrown fl ower arrangements to a whole able animals and plants in cies. For example, the Northern is responsible for the conserva- new level. Massachusetts and the habitats red-bellied cooter is the focus tion and protection of hundreds Melinda Myers has written numerous books, including Small Space upon which they depend. Many of the longest and most inten- of species that are not hunted, Gardening. She hosts The Great Courses How to Grow Anything species have benefited from sive freshwater headstart pro- fi shed, trapped, or commercially DVD series and the nationally-syndicated Melinda’s Garden Moment the protection afforded under gram in existence. Each year, harvested in the state, as well TV & radio program. Myers is a columnist and contributing editor MESA and the work of NHESP MassWildlife collects 100–150 as the protection of the natural for Birds & Blooms magazine and was commissioned by Longfi eld over the years, including the hatchling turtles from the wild. communities that make up their Gardens for her expertise to write this article. Her web site is www. restoration and conservation These hatchlings are raised habitats. MelindaMyers.com. POST-GAZETTE, MAY 15, 2020 PAGE 11

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The DH rule would A few issues back I wrote up ball card collection starting in Middlesex Division Suffolk Division be extended into the National a nice commentary on Hall of 1956, and going up to 1964. I 208 Cambridge Street 24 New Chardon Street League and negotiations over Famer Al Kaline who played had many Kaline cards. He was Boston, MA 02114 Cambridge, MA 02141 revenue splits and pro-rated his long career which started always one of the best of his era. (617) 768-5800 (617) 788-8300 salaries which would be based right out of high school for the Thanks for the card Sean. Docket No. MI20P1750EA Docket No. SU20P0420EA Estate of Estate of JOHN F. TROUGHTON STEVEN RAYMOND BERKE Date of Death: December 31, 2019 Date of Death: November 05, 2019 • News Briefs (Continued from Page 1) INFORMAL PROBATE INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE PUBLICATION NOTICE caused the deaths of “thou- for the democratic process and the House of Representatives To all persons interested in the above sands” of vulnerable elderly the state Democratic Party at 25 years old,” Speliotis said To all persons interested in the above cap- captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner residents. Pataki has called bigwigs should be ashamed of in a statement “I have enjoyed tioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner David Richard D. Kahn of Waltham, MA, a Will has S. Troughton of Chelmsford, MA, a Will has been admitted to informal probate. for an independent investiga- themselves. every minute of my time in been admitted to informal probate. Richard D. Kahn of Waltham, MA has tion of Cuomo’s decision to Mass. Rep. Ted Speliotis offi ce and am very appreciative David S. Troughton of Chelmsford, MA been informally appointed as the Personal require under-equipped nurs- Joins Growing List of the support and assistance has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond. ing homes to accept COVID-19 Of Retiring Incumbents I have received from my fam- surety on the bond. The estate is being administered under patients. Ted Speliotis was fi rst elected ily, friends, and constituents. The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representa- The NY Presidential primary to the House in 1978, lost his Together we have accomplished informal procedure by the Personal Represen- tive under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate rd tative under the Massachusetts Uniform Pro- Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory on June 23 is now back on after seat in the 1986 Democratic a great deal over the years, bate Code without supervision by the Court. and accounts are not required to be fi led with Inventory and accounts are not required to be a federal judge in Manhattan primary to now-colleague both in my district and on sub- the Court, but interested parties are entitled ordered New York State to re- Rep. Thomas Walsh, and was stantive legislation that has fi led with the Court, but interested parties are to notice regarding the administration from entitled to notice regarding the administration the Personal Representative and can petition instate the primary after former returned to the House in a 1996 affected every person in the from the Personal Representative and can the Court in any matter relating to the estate, presidential candidate Andrew election. Commonwealth.” petition the Court in any matter relating to the including distribution of assets and expenses of estate, including distribution of assets and administration. Interested parties are entitled to Yang sued over its cancellation. “I have been extremely fortu- End Quote expenses of administration. Interested parties petition the Court to institute formal proceedings Judge Analisa Torres ruled on nate to serve in elected offi ce “Love takes off masks that are entitled to petition the Court to institute and to obtain orders terminating or restrict- May 5th, that the State Board for nearly my entire adult life, we fear we cannot live with- formal proceedings and to obtain orders ter- ing the powers of Personal Representatives minating or restricting the powers of Personal appointed under informal procedure. A copy of Elections’ decision to cancel fi rst being elected as a Danvers out and know we cannot live Representatives appointed under informal pro- of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained over pandemic fears was uncon- Town Meeting member at the within.” cedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, from the Petitioner. stitutional. This was a victory age of 18 and then entering — James Baldwin can be obtained from the Petitioner. Run date: 05/15/2020 Run date: 05/15/2020 LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE Commonwealth of Massachusetts LEGAL NOTICE Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court The Trial Court The Trial Court The Trial Court Middlesex Probate and Family Court Commonwealth of Massachusetts Probate and Family Court Middlesex Probate and Family Court Probate and Family Court 208 Cambridge Street The Trial Court Suffolk Probate and Family Court 208 Cambridge Street Middlesex Division Cambridge, MA 02141 Middlesex Probate and Family Court 24 New Chardon Street Cambridge, MA 02141 208 Cambridge Street (617) 768-5800 208 Cambridge Street Boston, MA 02114 (617) 768-5800 Cambridge, MA 02141 Cambridge, MA 02141 (617) 788-8300 Docket No. MI20P1941EA (617) 768-5800 (617) 768-5800 Docket No. MI20P1816EA Docket No. SU20P0626EA Estate of Estate of Docket No. MI20P1796EA Docket No. MI20P1913EA ZEVART HOLLISIAN Estate of ERNEST GERARD FIELDS Estate of Estate of Also Known As BRUCE FAULKNER WHITE Also Known As ELAINE B. MONTAGUE DONG SUK RICE ZEE HOLLISIAN, ZEVART M. HOLLISIAN Date of Death: March 08, 2020 ERNEST G. FIELDS Date of Death: March 19, 2020 Date of Death: March 31, 2020 Date of Death: February 23, 2020 CITATION ON PETITION FOR Date of Death: March 12, 2020 CITATION ON PETITION FOR INFORMAL PROBATE FORMAL ADJUDICATION CITATION ON PETITION FOR CITATION ON PETITION FOR PUBLICATION NOTICE FORMAL ADJUDICATION FORMAL ADJUDICATION To all interested persons: FORMAL ADJUDICATION To all persons interested in the above cap- To all interested persons: To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Probate of Will To all interested persons: tioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Richard A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intes- with Appointment of Personal Representa- A Petition for Formal Adjudication of B. Schafer of Natick, MA, a Will has been Appointment of Personal Representative has tacy and Appointment of Personal Repre- tive has been fi led by Julia A. Drueding of Intestacy and Appointment of Personal admitted to informal probate. been fi led by Ara G. Hollisian of S. Weymouth, sentative has been fi led by Maria Bergmann Boston, MA requesting that the Court enter Representative has been fi led by Gerard M. Richard B. Schafer of Natick, MA has been MA requesting that the Court enter a formal of Ayer, MA requesting that the Court enter a a formal Decree and Order and for such other Weber of Merrimack, NH requesting that the informally appointed as the Personal Repre- Decree and Order and for such other relief as formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for sentative of the estate to serve without surety requested in the Petition. relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Julia A. such other relief as requested in the Petition. on the bond. The Petitioner requests that Ara G. Hollisian The Petitioner requests that Maria Drueding of Boston, MA be appointed as The Petitioner requests that Gerard M. The estate is being administered under of South Weymouth, MA be appointed as Bergmann of Ayer, MA be appointed as Per- Personal Representative(s) of said estate Weber of Merrimack, NH be appointed as informal procedure by the Personal Represen- Personal Representative(s) of said estate sonal Representative(s) of said estate to serve to serve Without Surety on the bond in an Personal Representative(s) of said estate to tative under the Massachusetts Uniform Pro- to serve Without Surety on the bond in an Without Surety on the bond in an unsuper- unsupervised administration. serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsu- bate Code without supervision by the Court. vised administration. unsupervised administration. pervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE Inventory and accounts are not required to be IMPORTANT NOTICE IMPORTANT NOTICE IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the fi led with the Court, but interested parties are You have the right to obtain a copy of the You have the right to obtain a copy of the You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. entitled to notice regarding the administration Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. from the Personal Representative and can You have a right to object to this proceeding. You have a right to object to this proceeding. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must fi le a petition the Court in any matter relating to the To do so, you or your attorney must fi le a To do so, you or your attorney must fi le a To do so, you or your attorney must fi le a written appearance and objection at this estate, including distribution of assets and written appearance and objection at this written appearance and objection at this written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day expenses of administration. Interested parties Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of of June 11, 2020. are entitled to petition the Court to institute June 02, 2020. June 05, 2020. June 09, 2020. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline formal proceedings and to obtain orders ter- This is NOT a hearing date, but a dead- This is NOT a hearing date, but a dead- This is NOT a hearing date, but a dead- by which you must fi le a written appearance minating or restricting the powers of Personal line by which you must fi le a written ap- line by which you must fi le a written ap- line by which you must fi le a written ap- and objection if you object to this proceed- Representatives appointed under informal pro- pearance and objection if you object to this pearance and objection if you object to this pearance and objection if you object to this ing. If you fail to fi le a timely written appear- cedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, proceeding. If you fail to fi le a timely written proceeding. If you fail to fi le a timely written proceeding. If you fail to fi le a timely written ance and objection followed by an affi davit can be obtained from the Petitioner. appearance and objection followed by an appearance and objection followed by an appearance and objection followed by an of objections within thirty (30) days of the Run date: 05/15/2020 affi davit of objections within thirty (30) days affi davit of objections within thirty (30) days affi davit of objections within thirty (30) days return day, action may be taken without of the return day, action may be taken with- of the return day, action may be taken with- of the return day, action may be taken with- further notice to you. out further notice to you. out further notice to you. out further notice to you. UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) PROBATE CODE (MUPC) PROBATE CODE (MUPC) PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed A Personal Representative appointed A Personal Representative appointed A Personal Representative appointed Your Ad under the MUPC in an unsupervised admin- under the MUPC in an unsupervised admin- under the MUPC in an unsupervised admin- under the MUPC in an unsupervised admin- istration is not required to fi le an inventory istration is not required to fi le an inventory istration is not required to fi le an inventory istration is not required to fi le an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons or annual accounts with the Court. Persons or annual accounts with the Court. Persons or annual accounts with the Court. Persons Could Go interested in the estate are entitled to notice interested in the estate are entitled to notice interested in the estate are entitled to notice interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from regarding the administration directly from regarding the administration directly from regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may peti- the Personal Representative and may peti- the Personal Representative and may peti- the Personal Representative and may peti- Here tion the Court in any matter relating to the tion the Court in any matter relating to the tion the Court in any matter relating to the tion the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including the distribution of assets estate, including the distribution of assets estate, including the distribution of assets estate, including the distribution of assets and expenses of administration. and expenses of administration. and expenses of administration. and expenses of administration. For information about WITNESS, HON. BRIAN J. DUNN, Witness, HON. MAUREEN H. MONKS, Witness, HON. MAUREEN H. MONKS, Witness, HON. MAUREEN H. MONKS, First Justice of this Court. advertising in First Justice of this Court. First Justice of this Court. First Justice of this Court. Date: May 07, 2020 Date: May 06, 2020 Date: May 08, 2020 Date: May 12, 2020 the Post-Gazette, call Felix D. Arroyo, Register of Probate Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate 617-227-8929. Run date: 05/15/2020 Run date: 05/15/2020 Run date: 05/15/2020 Run date: 05/15/2020 PAGE 12 BOSTON POST-GAZETTE, MAY 15, 2020

Boxing Ringside HOOPS and HOCKEY in the HUB by Richard Preiss WITH BOBBY FRANKLIN

Does a Heavyweight Have The words no one in the Bruins organization from the hockey world wanted to hear start, having been selected by To Be Big To Be came roaring across cyberspace Boston in the third round (75th Great? like a weather forecaster warn- overall) in the 2015 NHL Draft. ing of a storm to come. A native of the Czech Republic, The argument never ends. Almost daily on another 7 were 200 up to 210. That makes 20 “After a lengthy review pro- he represented that country in boxing sites and social media there are the out of the 32 title fi ght winners and 20 out of cess the American Hockey both the 2016 and 2017 World voices that can’t stop insisting that today’s huge 29 champions what today’s experts would call League has determined that the Junior Championships. heavyweights would have been too much for small heavyweights, unable to compete against resumption and completion of Max Legace also had a fi ne those of the past. Their size would have been the modern dreadnoughts such as Tyson Fury the 2019-20 season is not fea- year, appearing in 33 games too overwhelming for the little guys of previous and Deontay Wilder. The average weight for the sible under current conditions.” while compiling a 22-7-3 mark eras. I have written about this on a number 32 fi ghts is 204 pounds. That was the fi rst sentence and five shutouts. He had a of occasions, and have pointed out how in I also spent some time looking at various lists in a press release distributed 2.37 goals against average and the past there were huge heavyweights and of top ten greatest heavyweight champions of all on May 12th by American a .919 save percentage. Legace they were chopped down to size by smaller time. On most of these you will see the names Hockey League President David spent several seasons in the opponents. of Louis, Ali, Dempsey, Johnson, Marciano, Andrews on behalf of the AHL’s Quebec Major Junior Hockey I have argued that, in fact, many of the great and Holmes rated very highly. There are a few Board of Governors. League and was later signed by champions of the past actually had an easier I have found where the names Klitchko, Fury, And one could not help won- the Dallas Stars. Three seasons time of it when facing men much larger than they and Wilder are mentioned, but I can’t take these dering if the NHL would be next. in the minors followed. were. I’m thinking of Dempsey vs Carl Morris names seriously when ranking the all-time great- After all, change just one word He then was signed by the and Jess Willard, Ali vs. Foreman and Liston, est, and I doubt any serious boxing historian does in that sentence — substituting Vegas Golden Knights in 2017, Louis vs. Simon and Buddy Baer, as well as either. But, there is a large and vocal crowd out “National” for “American” and and played for their affi liate, the Primo Carnera. In the case of Ali, Dempsey, and there who truly believes the greats of the past you have the fi rst sentence of Chicago Wolves. He appeared in Louis; they all had a much more diffi cult times would have been chased out of the ring by today’s a press release pertaining to 16 games for the Knights during against men smaller than they were. Dempsey lumbering behemoths. the 31-team National Hockey the 2017-2018 season, going was beaten by Gene Tunney who spent most of So, if you are among the crowd that believes League. 6-7-1. He was signed by Boston his career campaigning as a light heavyweight. that you would most likely be among the crowd For the AHL that means that as a free agent last summer and Ali was decked by the lighter Henry Cooper and who favors having Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, over 30 arenas across North assigned to Providence. given fi ts by Doug Jones and Jimmy Young. Who Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Ezzard Charles, America that saw the lights The permanent stoppage can forget the time Joe Louis had with Billy Conn Jersey Joe Walcott, Sonny Liston, and many oth- go out back on March 12th will also brings to a halt a fi ne sea- in their fi rst go around? ers compete in some junior heavyweight category remain dark until the start of son for head coach Jay Leach in order to not be seriously hurt by the likes of the 2020-2021 season — if and assistant coaches Ryan Wilder and Fury. That is laughable. there is a new season in the fall. Mougenel and Trent Whitfi eld. You would also have to elevate to greatness We say that because the Although it is a big if, the per- status Jess Willard and Primo Carnera as they very same day that the AHL manent cancellation did prevent were both very big men and quite athletic as well pulled the plug for good on the Providence from a possible deep as strong. Are they really the only champs from current campaign there was run in the playoffs. If they did earlier times who could stand up to today’s crop? Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, one of manage to go all the way and The problem with many of those who see size the nation’s foremost infec- claim the Calder Cup, that as the dominant force in the heavyweight division tious disease experts, offering would have been the fi rst cup- is they completely discount skill. Joe Louis was his remarks before the U.S. clinching team in Providence able to dominate huge men such as Abe Simon, Senate Committee on Health since the 1998-1999 season Buddy Baer, and Primo Carnera because he and Education concerning the — a team coached by Peter knew how to neutralize their size with the skill risks of society resuming nor- Laviolette. he possessed. Same is true for Dempsey against mal activity too soon. A man who only played 12 Willard. It should also be remembered that in his Thus the word from the AHL, games in the NHL himself, he prime Muhammad Ali weighed well under 215 headquartered just 90 miles would later go on to win the Braddock vs. Baer and often under 210 pounds. Would he have been from the Hub in Springfield, Stanley Cup as the head coach I’ll throw in one other. Max Baer at 209 pounds too small for Deontay Wilder? If you even have to sounded a tad too close for com- of the Carolina Hurricanes in beat Primo Carnera at 263 pounds yet lost think about that question you’d better go take a fort — like a weather forecaster 2006. He also came close on the title to Jimmy Braddock who weighed 194 course in basic boxing theory. on TV reporting that a big storm two other occasions, coach- Pounds. I could go on and on. If we are to remove the names of all the heavy- had just barreled through the ing the Philadelphia Flyers to In the lighter divisions weight does make a weight champions from Corbett to Bowe who Berkshires and was closing in the Stanley Cup Final in 2010 difference, but once fi ghters weigh somewhere weighed 215 pounds or less on their title winning on Boston. and doing the same with the over 185 pounds the lighter weight can actually night from consideration from the all-time great- The decision by the AHL’s Nashville Predators in 2017. work as an advantage. I will save that for another est list, that would leave just 8 champions who column. would be included. Those 8 would be Jim Jeffries, powers that be meant that the But for now all remains dark What I have done now is to take the heavy- Jess Willard, Primo Carnera, George Foreman, league standings plus individ- across the world of sports in weight champions from James Corbett through Mike Tyson, Buster Douglas, and Riddick Bowe, ual and team statistics were for- America as we enter the middle Riddick Bowe and looked up each one’s weight and Ali (This would be Ali at 216 when he fought ever frozen in place and would of May. Restrictions by a vari- on the night he won the title (Ali won the title Foreman in 1974). form the basis for determining ety of states and the nation of three times and Patterson twice). The heaviest postseason awards. And what Canada make it seem as though was Primo Carnera at 261 pounds in 1933. The becomes of the Calder Cup play- a resumption of play in the lightest was Bob Fitzsimmons weighing in at offs — the AHL’s version of the National Hockey League is far 167 in 1897. Stanley Cup post season event? from a reality. In more recent times the two lightest men on Well that was canceled — as in Plus, even if the NHL’s “four their title winning nights were Floyd Patterson never to be played. So much for rink proposal” does become a in 1956 and Ezzard Charles in 1949. Both men Calder Cup MVP, outstanding reality; it would seem unlikely weighed in at 182. Calder Cup goalie, etc. that Boston would be selected Of the 32 winning title fi ghts, a full 13 of the The decision wipes out a as one of those sites. th new champions weighed under 200 pounds while potential long playoff run for As of May 12 , Massachusetts the Providence Bruins, who like had recorded the fourth highest their parents up on Causeway number of Covid-19 cases in Street, were having an espe- America (over 79,000), behind cially fi ne season. New York State, New Jersey and Ali vs. Foreman Providence was leading the Illinois. Does one really think Add into these eight names more recent entire Eastern Conference with that the league’s powers that be champs such as Klitchko, Fury, Wilder, Anthony 82 points, and was second would select a location in a state Joshua, and Andy Ruiz and do you think really in the entire league behind with one of the highest number think you are looking at a group of all time Milwaukee, which had accu- of diagnosed cases? greats? The only one on the list who most would mulated 90. In addition, recall that Mayor agree to be deserving is Ali, while you can argue The AHL Bruins had played Walsh has canceled all public about Foreman, Tyson, and Bowe. But it is clear 62 games and owned a 38-18-6 celebrations in Boston through Ali would have had a much more diffi cult time record when league play ceased Labor Day. We don’t know if competing against those who preceded him rather back on March 12. A big part of a Bruins game counts as a than those who succeeded him. their fi ne season was goaltend- celebration, but it does bring One I have left out of this discussion is Lennox ing — Providence led the entire around 18,000 people seated Lewis. I consider him the last of the champions league in fewest goals allowed shoulder to shoulder together who possessed some real boxing ability, but he with 154. in one enclosed space. Playing was far from great. He was certainly above the Dan Vladar was between the without fans remains a pos- talent that is out there today, but would not have pipes for 25 games, earning sibility, something a number done well against the best that preceded him. a 14-7-1 record while putting of other locations could offer He also did not win the title in the ring. Rather together a stellar 1.79 goals — without the high caseload Lewis was more like the last hurrah from a time against average and a .936 save history. All in all, a steep step when the heavyweight champions had real box- percentage. He also had three to climb for the Boston Bruins Louis vs. Carnera ing skills. shutouts. He has been in the in the summer of 2020.