VOL. 123 - NO. 38 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 $.35 A COPY San Gennaro Feast Returns to Boston’s North End by Matt Conti, NorthEndWaterfront.com The second annual feast of San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, took place in Boston’s North End on September 13-15, 2019. The feast, a festival to benefi t autism hosted by the San Gennaro Foundation, included a celebratory Mass on Sunday at Saint Leonard Church followed by a procession through the streets. Authentic pizza ovens were brought in as restaurants and food vendors served up clas- sic Italian feast food of pizza, sausages, meatballs, pasta and cannoli. Each night brought crowds for a lineup of live music and entertainment. (Additional Photos on Page 3) News Briefs (Photo by Matt Conti, by Sal Giarratani NorthEndWaterfront.com) Democrats Plain Useless for 2020 Last week, the Democrats hosted their latest reality show call the Democrat Debates. Once again, it looked like a reality show of dysfunctional candidates. Kamala East Boston 9-11 Harris has nothing to offer America but bad jokes, which all the Democrats on stage thought were great, but the biggest joke was on all of them because the clear winner of the debate had to be President Trump. Remembrance Mayor Pete Buttigieg actually thinks the only reason the City of South Bend, IN, is growing is due to all by Sal Giarratani those great illegal immigrants moving to his city. I kid In memory of all who perished you not. When he wasn’t kissing up to illegals, he was back on September 11, 2001 trying to out Spanish Jorge Ramos from Univision. at the hands of our enemies None of the candidates seemed to speak clear English and in gratitude for all those when it comes to fi nancing their Medicare for All pro- fi rst responders who rushed to posals, except Bernie Sanders, who was most honest rescue the victims trapped in by saying there would be additional tax burdens on the rubble while those inside the middle- and working-class. Elizabeth Warren is rushed out into the safety of talking about the wealth-class paying the trillions to the street. We as a people will reinvent health care as a government thing. No more always remember those police, private health insurance. fi re and EMS responders who Seems that Democrats have moved so far to the Left perished that morning. that President Obama is looking like Barry Goldwater This past Sunday, September nowadays. Buttigieg also told Americans that the 63 15th was the 17th anniversary million, who voted for President Trump in 2016, were observance in East Boston of just as racist as he is. Good job Pete. That will make that fateful day. On the fi rst lots of Democratic voters look even more to Trump. anniversary of that infamous Should Menthol Cigarettes be Banned? day, a small neighborhood cer- Rev. Al Sharpton thinks NOT. However, he has dif- emony was held at Piers Park ferences with the NAACP. This civil rights organization and has been held every since. knows that 80 percent of African Americans are hooked This latest gathering, like all East Boston High School Color Guard on cigarettes and menthols are the preferred cigarette before it, was held to memorial- of Black smokers due to marketing back in the ’60s ize the souls who departed that day that started out so beauti- Boston continues to remember targeting them by passing out free menthol cigarettes. long ago day. We also remember ful but quickly turned so toxic. that day of infamy. We will never I remember growing up in Orchard Park watching all those selfl ess people who A few East Boston folks gath- forget. The spirit of Fran Rowan those vans pull into the projects handing out free men- gave their lives to save those ered together in the aftermath still inspires all who return thol cigarettes to all regardless of age. Kools and Salem who were trapped inside those of 9-11. Among the loudest every year to remember that were always number one for this inner city population. two towers. voices was Fran Rowan who was attack on America and how we The world stood still but the both the heart and soul of this the people stood together. (Continued on Page 10) human spirit would not be annual remembrance. She has stilled. It is up to use the living left us now but her presence is to carry the memory of that one always felt every year as East (Additional Photos on Page 4) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE HAS MOVED TO 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON This offi ce is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 Res Publica by David Trumbull Meet the Massachusetts GOP Chairman at Revere Meeting JUVENAL On Thursday, October 3, Our second distinguished His concerns were mostly 2019, Jim Lyons, Chairman of scholar from the Silver Age of centered around those dark the Massachusetts Republican Latin literati is Decimus Junius years in Roman history from Party will be guest speaker at Juvenalis, generally referred to Nero to Domitian. the First Suffolk and Middlesex as Juvenal, and considered to Although he displayed great Senatorial District Republican be the most representative sa- passion and imagination, Juve- Committee Meeting. The dis- tirical poet of this age. Satire as nal is mostly distinguished from trict includes East Boston, the you know is that kind of writing earlier satirists in his concerns North End, parts of Boston’s which ridicules a person’s vices about depravity and vice. Downtown, Beacon Hill, and or follies. He possessed a savage in- Back Bay neighborhoods, the Juvenal was born in Aqui- dignation or scorn, and in his Town of Winthrop, the City num, in the southern part of poetry, he was able to fabricate of Revere, and parts of East Italy, sometime around 63 B.C., memorable lines and scenes. and Central Cambridge. The was well educated in his rhetor- Once again, like so many oth- event, which will be held at ical studies, and started writing er greats, his fame came long af- the American Legion Hall, 249 satire when he was about forty ter his death. His satires gained Broadway, Revere, at 6:30 p.m., years of age. He lived a simple popularity toward the end of is open to the public. lifestyle in a country estate near satires remain. All are written the fourth century, and for the Jim Lyons represented the Tibur (Tivoli), and at various in a special kind of rhythm of next hundred years he became Merrimack Valley 18th Essex year this is a great time to get times in his life held the offi ce verse called dactylic hexameter. one of the most commonly read district in the Massachusetts active in the Massachusetts of Tribune, and of Flamen. He The style of these poems repre- of the Roman poets. His work House of Representatives, before Republican Party. One of the was exiled to Britain or to Egypt sents the fi nal development of was rediscovered in the ninth he became the Chairman of the best ways to get involved is to because of a satirical attack on satire among the Romans. His century when he became one Massachusetts Republican join your local Ward or Town a favorite of the emperor, and work is emotional, scornful, the of the “golden authors” of the Party. Jim has brought new Committee. Ward and Town he died while in exile about language is abusive, and in his Middle Ages. revisions to the Massachusetts Committees stand for re-elec- 130 A.D. writing, he attempts to set him- Republican Party since his tion on the Presidential Primary The total works of Juvenal self up as a judge to censor the NEXT ISSUE: decisive win last January. There ballot. Signature papers for are unknown, but sixteen of his actions of his contemporaries. 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