The Senator Is Preparing Breakfast History in the Making: Dorcena Forry to Host St
March 2014 Boston’s hometown VOL. 25 #3 journal of Irish culture. $1.50 Worldwide at All contents copyright © 2014 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. bostonirish.com The senator is preparing breakfast History in the making: Dorcena Forry to host St. Patrick’s Day fete By peteR F. StevenS BiR StaFF On Sun., March 16, the date of this year’s traditional St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast in South Boston, state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry will make history. Her first turn as the host of the much-ballyhooed event will provide a political, cultural, and gender “hat trick” at a venue in South Boston that has always been where the Boston Irish “boyos” ruled the podium. As a Hai- tian American woman, a resident of Dorchester, and the first non-Irish-American host, Dorcena Forry will turn three stereotypes of the breakfast on their heads. Dorcena Forry, who has been planning the pro- gram for her debut while working to raise the tens of thousands of dollars necessary to fund the event, said Congressman Stephen F. Lynch and Rep. Nick Collins joined State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry and recently that Jack Hart, a former state senator from Dorchester’s Donna Gittens, left, at Castle Island in South Boston on Sunday as the elected officials South Boston, and Congressman Stephen Lynch, also of filmed video in preparation for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast. Forry will host the event on South Boston, both of whom have been breakfast hosts, March 16. Photo courtesy Sen. Forry’s office have been helpful to her in setting up the breakfast.
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