DOT DAY ’18 COMPLETE GUIDE TO SUNDAY’S PARADE JUNE 3 • 1 P.M. Along Dorchester Ave. from Richmond Street to Columbia Road

The Tony Barrie Band, shown making its way up the avenue in June 2017, is one of several marching bands and musical units that will be part of Sunday’s Dorchester Day Parade. Chris Lovett photo A chat with Ed Kelly, chief marshal of the 2018 Dorchester Day Parade

By Daniel Sheehan Carron, friends who have warriors I’m lucky to call Tommy. I appreciate Reporter Staff always dedicated them- friends who served our that my friend, and selves to our country, country bravely in what proud son of Dorchester, Following are ques- city, and neighborhood, is Dorchester’s greatest Fire Commissioner Joe tions and answers from and Mary-dith E. Tuitt tradition, fighting for Finn has assigned my a Reporter interview whose efforts at the State each other. When I look fire company, Ladder 17, with this year’s Dot Day House delivering back to at the great people who to the parade so some of Parade’s chief marshal, our community I have I’ll be able count myself my fellow firefighters Neponset native Ed admired. amongst, I am not sure will march with me as “Edzo” Kelly: I have also served on I belong. well as union leaders the board of directors Q. What is your like Boston Firefighters Q. What does it mean of the Massachusetts favorite part about Local 718 President to you personally to be Iraq and Afghanistan the Dorchester Day Rich Paris. The State leading the Dot Day Fallen Heroes Memorial proceedings? Champions of Dorches- parade? with past Chief Mar- A. The parade itself ter Youth Hockey Squirt A. It is quite an honor shall Brendan Murphy, is always my favorite B’s will be marching with and I will take great where we were part part. The Parade Com- us, as well as Neponset pride marching along- of a team that built a mittee really needs to Street Hockey League side Mayor Walsh and fitting tribute to all Bay be commended for all players. After the parade Governor Baker, two Staters who sacrificed the effort they put into I’ll head down to the friends whom I admire their lives fighting the all of the events. I’d John P. McKeon Amvets Edward A. Kelly, the chief marshal of the 2018 and respect very much. War on Terror, includ- like to recognize my Post where I am a proud Dorchester Day Parade, is General Secretary- When I look through ing Dorchester’s own friend Craig Galvin for member. Treasurer of the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF). the list of past chief Danny Londono and spearheading the chili Q. What are some of marshals, I am humbled Edgardo Zayas, who cook off and making it the your fondest memo- uncles living with us. to name a few. The older to be in the company of served posthumously as great event it’s become. ries about growing up We lived on the Dead kids looked out for the such great examples of chief marshal in 2007. Q. Who will you in Dorchester? End of Westglow with younger kids; the same who Dorchester people Sharing the honor that spend the day with? A. It was a great place about 40-50 other kids. clothes, beds, bikes, really are. To follow in year was Brian Foun- A. Well, first and to grow up. I was the The Swikes, Devines, skates, toys etc. all made the footsteps of Joe Zinck taine, Shane Burke, and foremost, my wife Katy fifth of six kids and we Solettis, McLaughlins, it through each house. and the late Jimmy Mc- Chris Saunders, three and my kids Maggie and always had a couple McCarthys, the Burkes, (Continued on page 5B)

A run-down on all of the bands, floats and special guests in our Parade Roster— Page 2 Page 2B THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT May 31, 2018 dotnews.com DOT DAY ’18 The Official Dorchester Day Parade Roster This roster is printed as an informational guide only. The parade line up is subject to change by the com- mittee at any time.

Andrea J. Campbell Boston Emergency Management Services Charlie Baker Boston City Council President Boston Fire Department Govenor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Annissa Essaibi George Boston Fire Department Honor Guard City of Boston, Special Police - BHA Police, Boston City Councillor At Large Boston Police Department BOHC Police, School Police, Park Rangers Boston Police Gaelic Column Authentic Caribean Foundation Boston Public Library Bibliocycle Clowning for Kidz Ayanna Pressley Boston Windjammers Colonial Pipers Band Candidate for United States Congress Boston Youth Raiders and Cheer CVC UNIDO, Cape Verdean Association of Boston DaBean Allstarz Baker/Polito Campaign C.A.S.H. Marching Band Dan Cullinane, State Representative Bay Cove Human Services Carney Hospital/Harvard Street Health Center Dan Hunt, State Representative Bethel Seventh Day Adventist Spanish Church Characters from Boston Party Solutions Dorchester Baseball Boston Bowl and LMPK Events Dorchester Brewing Company by way of Craft’d Company Dorchester Food Coop Dorchester Not for Sale 114th Dorchester Day Parade/Sun., June 3rd, 2018 Dorchester People for Peace DotOUT Dynasty Productions Starts 1:00 pm from Dorchester Lower Mills along Dorchester Avenue to Columbia Road East Boston Savings Bank Edward A. “Edzo” Kelly, Chief Marshall Happy Dorchester Day Elisabeth Bogle, Little Miss Dorchester Estreallas Tropicales Evandro Carvalho from the Fields Corner Main Streets Fire House Dixie Dorchester Day Parade Committee First Baptist Church This year we honor as our Chief Marshal Edward Kelly Frank Baker, Boston City Councillor Fuerza International We also congratulate our 2017 Mayor of Dorchester Joe Castro Gabriella Monteiro, Young Miss Dorchester Little Miss Dorchester - Elisabeth Bogle Glamorous Divas Greg Henning for District Attorney Young Miss Dorchester - Gabriella Monteiro Hallamore Horses Hot 96.9 FM 2016 PARADE E-BOARD PARADE COMMITTEE Joe Castro, Mayor of Dorchester President: Kelly Walsh Steve Allen Pat O’Neill Kenny School Marching Band Vice President: Marty Hogan Doug Bennet Cynthia Pape Linda Champion Parade Clerk: Dieu Phan Carol Chaisson Millie Rooney Candidate for Suffolk County District Attorney Secretary: Brianne Gore John Connor Pam Smith Living Art, Inc. Treasurer: Peter Sasso Christine Hogan Barbara Trybe Liz Miranda Judge Advocate: Karen MacNutt Paul Nutting Joe Zinck Candidate for 5th Suffolk District State Representative At-Large Director: Colleen Walsh Mark F. Rooney, Candidate for Governor’s Council At-Large Director: Carol Houghtaling Martin J. Walsh, Mayor of Boston At-Large Director: Christine Isabelle-Hogan McCall Ambulance Michael Capuano, United States Congressmen Michael Flaherty, Boston City Councillor Michelle Wu, Boston City Councillor At Large Meet Parade Chief Marshal Ed Kelly• US AirForce Mike Ritter, Ritterbin Photography The son, grandson, brother, nephew and cousin of fire fighters, Kelly joined the Boston Fire National Lancers Department as a fire fighter/EMT in 1997, where he was assigned to the Technical Rescue team New England Wailers that assisted Worcester Local 1009 at the Cold Storage Warehouse fire in 1999. Kelly was among New Magnolia Jazz Band the hundreds of fire fighters at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Nick Collins, State Senator Painters, District Council 35 Center, and also responded to the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. Patsy’s Clowns Pop-A-Lock Boston Before becoming a Boston fire fighter, Kelly attended the Department of Defense Fire Academy Rachel Rollins and from 1994 to 1997 served in the U.S. Air Force, stationed at Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Florida, Candidate for Suffolk County District Attorney where he worked as part of the crash and rescue crew. Roberto Clemente 21 Dancers Roma Band Musicians A graduate of the Harvard Trade Union Program class of 2015, he was named Labor Leader of the Year by the Greater Safe Patient Limits Boston Labor Council. Kelly was appointed by the governor of Massachusetts to serve as a commissioner at the Safety Auto School Department of Fire Services, as well as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission, one of South End Dynomites the largest health care purchasers in the Northeast, and was elected Executive Vice President for Public Sector of the South Shore Health System Home & Community Care Massachusetts AFL-CIO. Spartans Standish Village In addition, he serves as chairman of the Board of Directors for Florian CARES, a fire-based non-profit dedicated to Strolling Hobos Dixie community health, and as trustee for the Boston Fire Department Charitable Association, first established in 1828 to Tempo International ensure proper burial for indigent fire fighters and which now assists widows and widowers of fire fighters of modest The Cystem means. (The Youth Sports Training & Education Movement) The New Liberty Jazz Band As part of Kelly’s charitable efforts, he is a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors for Massachusetts Iraq The Next Birthday Project and Afghanistan Fallen Heroes and provides support for children diagnosed with pediatric cancer through The Cure Titan Majorettes It Foundation. Tony Barrie Band Uphams Corner Health Center Vietnamese American Community of Massachusetts We want to thank all of those who helped out with fundraisers for the parade and those who work Waltham American Legion Band throughout the year to put the parade on the street. Especially our parade sponsors. Worcester Brass Band PARADE WEBSITE: www.DotDayParade.com Worcester Sound & Lights Work, Inc. dotnews.com May 31, 2018 THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT Page 3B Red Line-themed t-shirt added to College Hype’s Dot Day catalog By Daniel Sheehan 25 years. Reporter Staff This year’s Dot Day Dorchester Day brings releases will add a few another batch of fresh new classics to the College Hype t-shirts to catalog. rock on the avenue this “We’ve got four or five Sunday. new designs that we’re The neighborhood’s really excited about,” premier apparel com- said founder and CEO pany has been a fixture Jack Doherty, a Lower of Dorchester Days and Mills native. “We think a source of local pride for people are really going over three decades. to like them.” Founded in 1987, One of these designs College Hype produces is MBTA themed, custom t-shirts, hoodies, depicting a fictional hats, and accessories, “Dorchester” Red Line in addition to their stop on the front and College Hype has un- signature unique lines a “Dorchester line” of veiled new Dorchester of clothing repping train stops on the back, Day designs including a their hometown. Their the ubiquitous “T” logo Red Line-themed t-shirt Dorchester Apparel replaced with a “D.” (above) and an American A simpler shirt design flag-themed shirt (at online shop offers about right). 40 different Dorchester- reads “Dot Day” in large themed shirts adorned block letters, with a the weekend. The week with shamrocks, three- cutout of the American leading up to Dorchester deckers, and other flag in place of the “o.” Day is typically one symbols of the neighbor- And below, in smaller of the busiest times of hood. font, an inspirational the year for the Adams Some favorite best motto: “Anything can Village-based company, sellers include the happen.” said Doherty. infamous “Dot Rat” Doherty said the “We’ve been doing Dot t-shirt, the prideful company will be selling Day shirts for thirty “OFD” (Originally From apparel from a pop-up years. We love it. It’s a Dorchester) apparel, stand by the Gulf gas great family day, and it’s and the “Parishes of station at the corner of great to see people come Dorchester” shirt, a Hallet Street and Gal- back to the neighbor- design whose popularity livan Boulevard from hood from all over,” said has endured for nearly Wednesday through Doherty.

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Follow us! @tavolodotave #DOTitalian livetreadmark.com Page 4B THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT May 31, 2018 dotnews.com dotnews.com May 31, 2018 THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT Page 5B A chat with Ed Kelly, chief marshal of the 2018 Dot Day Parade (Continued from page 1B) Bakery to get my wife her Neponset and my mother was Q. Firefighting runs in nities from the local to I never knocked on a front small coffee with a little bit the bookkeeper. Bobby “Wizza” your family and in your the international level. door, just walked into any of cream is a great start to a White, a legendary Beacon blood, and you’ve been Considering the Dot Day house and ate right out of the day, or breakfast after the St. Hill lobbyist and proud Dot around firefighters all your Parade’s military history, fridge. Nobody batted an eye. Ann’s 10:30 at The Butcher Rat told me that Dwyer Oil life. What are some common what special significance My brother Greg, now a Fire Shop. Of course, I have a never left any house without misconceptions you think will June 3 have for you? lieutenant, and my best pal mandatory check in at the Eire heat, whether you could pay people might have about A. When I think about the Bucko Burke, now a district Pub to see Kevin McCarron or not. My mother’s youngest firefighters and the job tremendous service to our fire chief would do ‘fire inspec- and hear the proprietor John brother Jimmy was struck they do? country by the men and women tions’ (walk around someone’s Stenson’s signature laugh. All and killed by a P&B bus on A. That we all know how to of Dorchester, it’s just an house making sure the lamps of the new restaurants have Neponset Ave. walking home cook. We all know how to eat honor to be a part of it. Take were plugged in) for a dime or been great additions to the from The Finast Supermarket just fine, but I was only allowed a look at all the street corners a quarter so when we got sent neighborhood, The Landmark, when he was just six years to cook once in the firehouse. named for our fallen around to the Pope’s Hill Creamery for Dorset, Industry, Lucy’s and old, which really impacted her I made hamburger and veg- this neighborhood. My cousin’s cigarettes, we’d have a littler I’m looking forward to Blasi’s family. My mother was always etable soup that I thought was uncle, Robert A. Griffin, is one something for lollipops or a reopening after the fire they a leader, a rock for everyone delicious. We ate in three days of the 79 sons of Dorchester trip to the port for Seymour’s suffered in their building. around her, her beauty shines a week on the Dead End, which who made the ultimate sacri- ice cream Hoodsies. I’m trying Getting my haircut at Aiden’s in the tough times. She is a wasn’t so popular with my fice and is memorialized on the to teach my daughter some of Barbershop with Heather and proud graduate of Fontbonne guys who were used to Bubba Dorchester Vietnam Veterans Dorchester’s life lessons. We Tara holding court always Academy, although she never Martin’s meatloaf or Charlie Memorial on Gallivan Boule- were all lucky to be Dead End makes me feel at home. went to college. Through her Santangelo’s baked chicken. vard. The expressway overpass Dot Rats. Q. You’re well known in hard work and intelligence It was all potato-peeling and at Freeport and Boulevard is Q. How do you remember the community, but what’s she became the head of the washing the pots and pans for named for him. This August Dot Day as a kid? something people might be admitting department at me after that. marks 50 years since his death. A. I remember walking surprised to learn about St. Margaret’s Hospital. My Q. Finally, we’d like to I’ll be reading all the corner up Ashmont Street with the you? mother had six children, but thank you for your service signs when I march down Dot O’Connell family, and watch- A. My father, Jack Kelly, seven kids, including my and for being a leader Ave. and remembering their ing the parade in Peabody being my idol wouldn’t come as father. Her legacy is that we in firefighting commu- sacrifice. Square. As we were coming a shock to anybody. Following all turned out pretty good. of age, Dot Day weekend was in his footsteps has been my My oldest brother Sean is a the highlight of the year. On natural path. I was blessed lieutenant on E-18 in Peabody Saturday we would have the with always knowing what Square, my brother Steven Jazz Basketball Tournament I wanted to do in life – be a is the president and CEO of down Toohig Park, named fireman. Riding my bike into Timberline Construction Com- In Memoriam after my friend Richie “Jazz” the South End and hanging pany, my sister, Dr. Dianne Maffie, who was killed in a car around with my Dad at the Kelly, is the superintendent Robert Griffin accident on Ashmont Street firehouse was gold. My brother of Revere Public Schools, in 1989. Then Dot Day itself Greg and I would wash the my sister Tricia Keegan has 50 years gone was always an adventure. truck and run any errands my worked as an engineer all over but not forgotten Everyone bought their Dot Day father’s pals Captain “Duozo” the world, and my brother Greg tee shirts from Jack Doherty at Reynolds, Dicky Sanders, is a lieutenant in J.P. and a College Hype. We considered Jerry Yanovich, Hippy Gon- war hero as a part-time job. stopping by the Carney and zalez, or Joe Odom needed. I My mother has been working C-11 a double-header. think you’d have to know our on him for a half a century, but Q. What are a few of your family pretty well to recognize even my father turned out okay favorite neighborhood what a tremendous influence under her tutelage. I am truly spots or establishments? my mother Noreen has been blessed. I also had 22 cousins (USMC) A. I travel a lot for the union, to me. My mother grew up I grew up with in Dorchester. so being away so much makes in the same house as we did, Q. Do you say three- 2/26/44- 8/1/68 me really appreciate coming the oldest of six children. decker or triple-decker? home to Dorchester. For me, Her Dad was a fireman and A. Only three-deckers where a morning run to Greenhills owned Dwyer Oil company in I’m from.

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IBEW Local 103 and NECA wish all of our neighbors in Dorchester a safe and happy parade celebration! Page 6B THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT May 31, 2018 dotnews.com 114 Years Ago, Dorchester Day took root in Savin Hill By Peter F. Stevens past, spearheaded an Trask describes the problem: The society’s Reporter Staff organization that num- festive mood that filled funds were depleted Excitement wafted bered 25 members at its the city, then and now: from having refurbished through the crowd along inception. That number “Business houses and its home. Still, Stark Savin Hill. The commu- would quickly swell. private residences are pressed the concept of nity was gathered for a To celebrate the town’s elaborately decorated. Dorchester Day and special event that would rich annals, the society There are parades, ad- “argued that it would not evolve into a tradition. envisioned a way to dresses, regattas, ring- only draw the attention Sails dotted the blue blend the past with the ing of bells, fireworks, of the public to the neces- waters of Dorchester Bay present, to gather those etc.” sity of preserving to pos- below the shady slopes, who lived in Dorches- In an April 1904 meet- terity this historic spot, where a “historical pil- ter and those who had ing of the society, Stark, but it would advance the grimage” was about to moved, and to bring them the organization’s vice interests of the society, unfold. It was June 25, together in something of president, first pitched as it would bring it more 1904. a historical homecoming. the notion of a “Dorches- prominently before the As the people of Trask writes: “...many ter Day.” He proposed public, and if it proved a Dorchester turned their of the best known and that the town celebrate success ‘Dorchester Day’ thoughts back to 1630, most influential men its founding by gathering would become the annual when the weary pas- of the old town have the community atop ‘field day’ of the society.’” sengers of the “Mary and become members [of Savin Hill, where the Stark’s powers of John” claimed their foot- the society]. Among the Puritan company of the persuasion worked. The hold in the New World, result of the society’s Mary and John had built society voted to celebrate the first Dorchester Day work may be mentioned their first fort and had the town’s settlement Celebration was on the the observance of the carved their first tenuous with a band concert move. 274th anniversary of the foothold in the Mas- and ceremonies at the In many ways, the settlement of Dorchester sachusetts Bay Colony. summit of Savin Hill. genesis of Dorchester and the inauguration of Stark’s stated objective James H. Stark, chosen Day began with the cre- Dorchester Day, which was “to draw the at- to raise funds, came up ation of the Dorchester is now a fixture, and tention of the public to with $135 in donations, Historical Society in under the auspices of the this most beautiful and enough to foot the bill April 1891. William H. society the anniversary attractive historic spot, for a tent, printed fliers, Whitmore, who served as is observed yearly, and with the end in view that and refreshments; he the City Registrar, and is practically a ‘home the city should purchase also persuaded officials local luminary James coming’ for the residents it for a park and hand to provide the Municipal H. Stark, both of whom of old Dorchester that are down to posterity this Band and flags for free. were known as avid scattered throughout the lovely hilltop.” That the first “Dorches- James Stark was the publisher and president of the students of the town’s land.” There was just one ter Day” was a smash hit Photo-Electrotype Engraving Company, was noted historian and organizer of the Dorchester Historical Society in 1891. He might well be considered the father of Dorchester Day. Photo courtesy Dorchester Historical Society/ dorchesteratheneum.org is evident from the pages and the site, the speak- of the Boston Herald ers being Richard C. the next day, June 26, Humphreys, President 1904: “Lifted nearly one of the Dorchester His- hundred and fifty feet torical Society; James H. above Dorchester bay, Stark, who delivered the the craggy slopes and oration; the Rev. Eugene tree-covered heights of R. Shippen of the First ‘Rocky Hill,’ ‘Old Hill,’ Church in Dorchester, or ‘Savin Hill,’ as it has who presided; the Rev. been variously styled, Peter Ronan, and Repre- were yesterday the scene sentative Guy A. Ham.” of commemorative exer- The presence of Father cises that seem destined Ronan was especially to make a new place of telling, proving how historical pilgrimage for far the town had come the tourist whose steps from the days of its are annually bent toward first English settlers, Massachusetts. Puritans who loathed The members of the anything smacking of Dorchester Historical “Popery.” In 1904, the Society, having planned Catholic cleric’s honored to turn this long-ne- place at the ceremonies glected spot into a park, reflected an era when which shall at the same the Irish Catholics were time commemorate the finally winning greater settlement of Dorchester acceptance from the in 1630, and possess the descendants of the Mary character of a national and John emigrants. monument, had enlisted In Dorchester Day the aid of several local celebrations to come, societies, such as Savin whether the 25th or 50th Hill Improvement As- versions, the festivities sociation, Gen. Rufus became bigger, parades Putnam Chapter, D. and even regattas took R., Savin Hill Yacht shape, and more money Club, Harrison Square was poured into the Association, Dorchester event, one aspect re- Lower Mills Improve- mained virtually intact. ment Association, Mat- That aspect was Stark’s tapan Improvement vision of Dorchester Day Association, Field and as a “homecoming.” Forest Club, Dorchester A look at the Dorches- Veteran Firemen’s Asso- ter Day coverage by the ciation, Benjamin Stone, old Dorchester Beacon Jr., Post 68, G.A.R., and newspaper reveals that the United Improvement many of the civic orga- Association of Dorches- nizations and businesses ter. that supported the first “Under invitation of such gathering remained these organizations some long-time backers. Even two hundred citizens of as new arrivals to the Dorchester gathered in town took their own a tent on the crest of places in the festivities Savin Hill, and there, al- through the years, that ternated with selections sense of place and home by the Boston Municipal — of community — has Band, under Emil Mul- stood the test of time. lenhauer, patriotic ad- Dorchester Day 2018 will dresses were made on the be proof positive of that. significance of the day dotnews.com May 31, 2018 THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT Page 7B Introducing Dorchester’s Little Miss Elisabeth and Young Miss Gabriella By Daniel Sheehan have a career in music Marshal’s Dinner on Fri- Reporter Staff and be someone that day night at Florian Hall For nine-year-old represents the rights of as well as participate in Elisabeth Bogle and people.” other traditional events 10-year-old Gabriella The Little Miss crown- throughout the weekend. Monteiro, Dorchester holder added that she The contest itself is Day will be a special had a blast participating about girls having fun occasion this year. As in the competition itself. and building their confi- Little Miss Dorchester “I loved that everyone dence in public speaking. (ages 7-9) and Young received a prize, medal, But just being a part of Miss Dorchester (ages and flowers for their the Dorchester Day cel- 10-12), respectively, participation,” she said. ebrations is something these poised young ladies “The organizers made that Elisabeth says she will play an important all the girls feel special has looked forward to for role representing their and comfortable to be a long time. “Every year I hometown neighborhood themselves and nobody have watched the parade in the parade on Sunday. was left out.” with my mom, hoping to The Reporter inter- In addition to riding in be a part of it one day. viewed the girls about the parade, the Misses This year my dream has their key roles in the Young Miss Dorchester will also attend the Chief come true!” Gabriella Monteiro. parade, which they will take from a vantage point toward the front of the marchers in a con- vertible sports car. It’s a privilege that Gabriella, in particular, is looking forward to. She says she’s been practicing her wave, adding that “it feels Little Miss Dorchester 2018 Elisabeth Bogle, right, really good because I get with contest organizer Sonia Essaibi. to ride in a convertible and learn about what it’s like to be a princess favorite hobbies include Hyde Park. She enjoys or a queen.” STEM activities, build- singing, dancing, and A fourth grader at ing with LEGOs, taking acting, and participates Quincy Catholic Acad- hip-hop dance lessons, regularly in community emy, she hails from the and training her dog. activities at the Fields Ashmont area, a place When she grows up, she Corner Library and she says she’s proud wants to be an engineer. the Dot House Center. to represent. “I like If Young Miss Dorches- On her future, she’s a the community because ter seems wise beyond bit more hesitant than people support each her years, the same can Gabriella. other, and people have be said for her co-tiara “I’m still thinking pride in where they live,” wearer, Elisabeth, a about what I would like she said. third grader at Franklin to be when I grow up,” she Some of Gabriella’s D. Roosevelt School in said. “But I would like to

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from Councillor Ayanna Pressley Senator and family Nick Collins Paid for by the Committee to Elect Ayanna Pressley Fourth Suffolk District Page 8B THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT May 31, 2018 dotnews.com Seal of Approval: The Story Behind Dorchester’s Town Seal By Peter F. Stevens the early wars with the Plymouth, England, in if not the country.” from which place the Reporter Staff Indians, with the French March of 1630, prior Readers scrutinizing infant colony derived In April 1865, Dorches- in colonial days, in the to their embarkation the impressive back- much of its strength, ter’s Town Meeting War of the Revolution, for this country, which ground of the shield both physically and gathered to consider an in the Shay’s Rebellion, act was pre-eminently will likely identify the spiritually.” important civic mea- in the last war with the cornerstone of the scene’s inspiration - the The “Roman connec- sure - “to procure…a England, and in the foundation of this town, Blue Hills. The 1865 tion” would take on Corporate Seal of the dreadful war so lately although they did not committee, testifying added suitability several town.” Many modern gloriously closed.” arrive here until early in to those slopes’ impor- decades later, when an- residents of Dorchester A town seal, in the prominent Dorchester June of that year.” tance to the town’s early cient Roman paving are familiar with that opinion of people from men - Edmund J. Baker, To the rear of the development, asserted: stones would be placed at seal, emblazoned with Neponset to Savin Hill, Edmund P. Tileston, seal’s church, another “In the background will Dorchester High School. the words “Dorchester would help to “sacredly Nathan W. Tileston, rude, thatched structure be recognized the Blue A banner draped be- 1630” and the Latin preserve the beautiful and others - formed a appeared on the shield. Hills, which served as neath the castle and motto “Pietate, Literis, tribute of her citizens committee to design The second structure a landmark to pilot the along the top and sides Industria,” but some may to the memory of sons, a town seal in April represented Dorches- early settlers to the of the shield bore the not realize the depth of who, in obedience to 1865. Joining the effort ter’s first school. mouth of [the] Charles motto “Pietate, Literis, thought that the men at early instructions, and was Dorchester’s Anti- “The free school,” River, and from behind Industria.” For the com- that 1865 town meeting inherited purpose in quarian and Historical Edmund Baker and his which the rising son is mitteemen and their put into the enduring morality, patriotism, Society. colleagues asserted, “the shining upon a colony neighbors, the trio of and proud symbol. and humanity, have laid The contingent de- system of which has been who left their homes in words represented a A range of political, down their lives on the scribed their purpose: exerting a beneficial the mother country, not direct link between historic, and civic con- altar of their country.” “Your Committee have influence over the whole as adventurers in search the early settlers and siderations compelled Along with patrio- sought to emblazon upon country, was established of gold, as exiles, or for the residents of 1865, Dorchester’s leaders to tism, a large band of the Town Seal such a de- in this town in 1639, and conquest, but the more words reflecting values seek a seal testifying to Dorchester’s residents vice as would symbolize is said to be the very first precious boon of religious passed down through the town’s unique history hoped a local seal would the acts which rendered free school in the world. liberty.” the centuries. “The and sense of place in reinforce their status as the early settlers of this The foundation of this A regal image mate- motto upon the ribbon, Massachusetts. With the an individual town, for in town a peculiar [particu- institution is recognized rialized atop the shield, Pietate, Literis, Indu- Civil War coming to its 1865, the prospect of an- lar] people, and objects of on the shield…” soaring above the rolling stria, signifies that piety, savage end and with so nexation by Boston was gratitude and veneration In another image en- contours of the Blue learning, and industry many Dorchester fami- on the horizon. Many by their descendants for graved upon the shield, Hills. A castle with were the prominent lies having lost fathers, locals already lamented all time to come.” the committee cited the three imposing turrets virtues which the early sons, and brothers on that in 1804, “that part The centerpiece of portrait of a “rude mill, crowned the slopes, the settlers coveted, and the conflict’s far-flung of Dorchester’s territory the committee’s design with its large wheel, mill, the school, and the which their descendants battlefields, local lead- lying upon her north- was a shield embossed which is seen upon the church. Baker and com- unanimously accord to ers wanted to extol the ern border…including near its base with the left bank of the Neponset pany proudly summed them.” town’s more than 250 Dorchester Heights,” image of a rough-hewn, River, the course of which up their castle as a fitting In the case of Dorches- years of contribution and had been appropriated thatch-roofed church, river, from its source to symbol for the town: “The ter’s town seal, the old sacrifice. by Boston. In the 1850s, without a chimney. its mouth, lay through triple-towered castle adage that a picture is They sought to create Dorchester leaders had In explanation of the the ancient territory of surmounting the shield worth a thousand words a symbol of Dorches- vainly struggled as church’s significance in Dorchester.” is adopted in respectful might well be revised: ter’s unique place in “Washington Village Dorchester’s annals, the The image symbolized memory of Dorchester in the seal’s carefully cho- the nation’s history: was swallowed up by the committeemen noted: Israel Stoughton’s corn Old England, of whose sen symbols are worth “The town of Dorches- city [Boston].” “The early settlers of mill, which he built in seal this is the principal a thousand words - plus ter…the mother of free With many residents Dorchester organized 1633 “by grant of land charge (in commemora- three more that speak public schools, whose still hoping to fend off themselves as a church and timber by the town… tion of that borough volumes: piety, learning patriotism and liberality further incursions by at the New Hospital in and is said to be the first having been formerly and industry. have been so tried in Boston, a who’s who of water-mill in the colony, a Roman fortress), and https://web.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/?auth=co&id=398300&part=1.2

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For more about the Boston Foundation, visit www.tbf.org. Page 10B THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT May 31, 2018 dotnews.com When Lower Mills was the center of the chocolate universe By Peter F. Stevens bought a sawmill nestled ter physician’s new operating costs by that Reporter Staff alongside the river. process was poised to time, rented space in Something was in the By spring 1765, Han- cure “chocolate-lovers’ a Neponset snuff mill, air. People on their daily non was ready to put elbow” - the soreness that grinding and pouring rounds along the roads of the plan to the test by colonists endured from “cakes” once again and Dorchester and Milton grinding cocoa beans grinding their own cocoa presumably making sure Village turned toward between two massive, beans with their own that no tobacco residue the Neponset River, in- circular millstones. Now, pestles or hand mills. from the adjoining busi- haled the spring breeze, his partner would learn Rising orders com- ness drifted into his and took a deep whiff. whether the Irishman pelled Baker and Hannon pouring kettles. The smell of chocolate knew his craft or else to move the operation in With the outbreak of was in the air. had had sold him a bill 1768 to a larger space the American Revolution The year was 1765. of goods. on the Neponset, with in 1775, the Dorches- The heavenly scent Hannon set the top Baker renting a fulling ter chocolate-makers drifted from a sawmill millstone to one-third, [cloth] mill from his struggled to stay in busi- on the banks of the the speed used to grind brother-in-law, Edward ness. Their dependence river within eyeshot of corn. As the stone Preston. Preston, how- upon cocoa from the Boston. Inside the mill, groaned and began to ever, was not satisfied West Indies forced them an Irishman watched spin, he poured cocoa with merely being the to smuggle shipments of two giant millstones beans into a hole cut chocolatiers’ landlord. beans through the web grinding fragrant cocoa This Reporter file photo from 1987 shows the old through the its center. He had his eyes on the of Royal Navy warships and sounding a call to Baker Chocolate silos that were once a prominent Then, the Neponset’s business itself. For the prowling the Eastern a culinary revolution feature of the Lower Mills plant. flow set the bottom stone moment, he appeared seaboard. Even after the that was to spread from how to make chocolate, dence, in 1752, when whirling, and the motion “interested” in only a Patriot cannons bristling Dorchester and conquer for which colonists were Obadiah Brown had of both “wheels” pulver- curious fashion, but all atop Dorchester Heights the collective palate of willing to part with steep built a water-powered ized the beans into a that would change. helped force the “lob- America. sums even though after mill and had churned thick syrup. Then, he In 1772, Baker, with sterbacks’” departure In the fall of the paying for the pricey out four hundred pounds and Baker first poured sales continuing to from Boston, Baker and year before, Dr. James product, imported from of the treat for Newport the liquid into a giant swell, opened a second Hannon still faced the Baker had smelled the West Indies, they merchants. He was not, iron kettle and then Dorchester mill. Specu- headache of running an opportunity for a still had to “work” for however, in the business into molds, where the lation that he and Han- beans through the Royal mouth-watering, money- their “fix” by grinding the for the long haul, just concoction cooled to form non, who continued to Navy’s gauntlet, not to making product that had chocolate with mortar for a quick and lucrative chocolate “cakes” that operate the other plant, mention paying the war- materialized in a chance and pestle or by using profit. looked more like “bricks” had quarreled and had inflated costs of cocoa. meeting on a local road cumbersome, expensive Baker took on the in weight and consis- either parted ways or In 1779, Hannon re- with a down-on-his-luck “hand mills.” challenge, betting his tency. With that first forged a looser partner- portedly vanished on Irish immigrant named Most significantly for savings and his energy batch, Hannon proved ship, abounded. Baker a voyage to buy beans John Hannon. Baker, the Irishman on Hannon’s expertise that he could deliver the had learned much from in the West Indies. No Baker, a Harvard not only knew how to for a venture that he goods. America’s first the Irishman: Nhe new one in Dorchester ever graduate who had prac- make the “sweet stuff,” hoped would prove a bonafide chocolate fac- mill turned out nearly saw or heard from him ticed “physicke [sic],” but he also could set up long-term success. tory had been born along nine hundred pounds of again. Various sources medicine for a time, and and run a chocolate mill. Although the partners Dorchester’s banks. chocolate in 1773. believe he perished in had run a Dorchester Several New England- didn’t need a huge space No one knows exactly Baker’s decision to a shipwreck; however, store, learned from their ers had tried to set to launch their scheme, how and where Hannon branch out proved both others contend that he encounter that even up chocolate-grinding they did require unlim- had honed his expertise profitable and lucky, for vanished only from his though the Irishman operations, but none had ited water power. And with chocolate. His past in 1775, Hannon’s site vitriolic marriage to a did not have a shilling in taken off. The closest they did not need to look was – and is – elusive. burned to the ground. Boston woman named his pocket, he possessed that any entrepreneurs any farther than the But the enigmatic Irish- The Irishman, probably Elizabeth Doe. But to a prized skill: He knew had come was in Provi- Neponset after Baker man’s and the Dorches- able to foot his own (Continued next page)

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By 1780, Baker had wrested Walter Baker died in 1852, his former partner’s mill from before the family could reap the widow, presumably by buy- refrigeration’s benefits to ing her out. By consolidating the business. His passing the operation under one roof marked the end of the Bakers’ on the site of the mill that had hegemony in the chocolate burned down in 1775, Baker business, which they had saw his sales soar. ruled for nearly ninety years. Watching the cash that The Baker Chocolate Factory chocolate-making poured into A turn-of-the-19th-century postcard shows a bustling industrial village on the banks of the continued to turn out its near- his brother-in-law’s account Neponset River, which powered the Baker Chcocolate juggernaut for close to two centuries. legendary products along the spurred Edward Preston to Image courtesy Dorchester Historical Society Neponset until 1965. In that make a move after 12 years dreamed of. In 1806, Baker chocolate mill stood virtually was hardly a comfortable year, two centuries after a of seeing Baker struggle Chocolate’s new chief opened a empty for two years. workplace. In summer, em- Dorchester doctor/shopkeeper his way to success. He had state-of-the-art mill alongside With the war’s end in 1814, ployees swooned from the and an Irishman set their first studied the operation from the Neponset and started cartloads of cocoa beans kettles’ brown molten fumes two millstones into motion, millstones to handbills. In the up a gristmill and a cloth rumbled into the impressive, and from the temperature General Foods, Baker’s parent 1790s, a Preston’s chocolate mill nearby. With the Baker three-story stone edifice Baker within and outside the fac- outfit since 1927, shut down vied for space on tables and complex the focal point, the had built. Soon, Baker’s best tory. In winter, gusts roared the venerable red-brick plant in cupboards with Baker’s Neponset was dubbed “the was on the shelves of America’s from the Atlantic and up the and moved the operation to product. river of American business.” general stores again. Neponset, the chill assailing Dover, Delaware. Some four decades later, Baker expanded sales from Edmund Baker later en- workers inside and outside Still, it is in the annals James Baker, the Harvard the Northeast to the western trusted the company to his the plant and making the of Dorchester, not Dover or doctor and businessman who outposts of the young republic’s son Walter who moved to steaming kettles a desirable anywhere else, that the proud had launched America’s first widening borders; however, expand his work force. In a spot around which to gather. legacy of Baker Chocolate truly permanent and profitable come 1812, America’s second sign of the changing times, The Baker workers nonethe- lives as the site of America’s chocolate factory, stepped war with Britain suddenly two of his were young women, less made their boss the first first successful chocolate mill, down as “the king of cocoa.” heaped upon Edmund Baker Mary and Christiana Shields, name in American chocolate, where cocoa was turned into He chose his son Edmund as the same shipping problems who walked onto the plant a success that attracted tough cash. the successor to the family his father had suffered during floor in petticoats in 1834. By competition from chocolate- Today, America’s love af- business. the Revolution. This time, 1846, Baker’s payroll included making interlopers. By 1835, fair with chocolate waxes Edmund Baker soon be- the Royal Navy’s squadrons several women. the Preston mill was rolling unabated, testimony to the gan taking the venture to choked off cocoa shipments Walter Baker’s mill, the fra- out 750 pounds of the product “taste” and acumen of Dr. levels that his father and so effectively that the kettles grance of its chocolate to many a day. And by 1842, the banks Baker and an Irishman named Hannon could scarcely have and molds inside the Baker passersby notwithstanding, of the Neponset featured a John Hannon.

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More info and tickets: bit.ly/DotThenNow dotnews.com May 31, 2018 THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT Page 15B Dot Day Parade 101: Tie on those Adidas and hit the Avenue By Bill Forry and settlement back in May entertainment. Also, sunscreen. Lots Lauren Dezenski 1630 (see this week’s If Sunday’s a real and lots of sunscreen. This beginner’s guide editorial, page 12). scorrchah (hot day), (Unless it rains, of to the Dot Day Parade And now to the brass hoof it a few short blocks course, which it might was originally published tacks: The parade itself from Dot Ave. to Savin this year, based on in June 2015. starts at 1 p.m. from Hill beach for a splash the latest forecast.) Can you feel it? The Dot Ave and Richmond in Dorchester Bay. The A final note, from the de- sense of anticipation, joy, Street in Lower Mills stretch of beach on the partment of your mother: and wonder, reverberat- and troops up Dot Ave other side of Morrissey The absolute worst view ing up and down Dot all the way to the Polish Blvd. (careful now, use of the parade route is Ave? Triangle at the border the crosswalk) is Malibu from the Area C-11 jail The parade brings of Southie. The head of Beach, closer to the block. Open containers together all the different the parade will reach its landmark gas tank. Be are absolutely NOT al- ethnic groups that make end-point at Columbia nice and maybe one of the lowed on the route and up Boston’s biggest and Road more than an hour- jet skiers who weekend Boston Police have been best neighborhood. You and-a-half later. on Malibu will give you serious about making could spend a year going Project DEEP co-hosts a lift back to Quincy or this a far-less sudsy to all the different ethnic a 5K run beginning and wherever you came from. affair than the March fests across Boston. Or ending at the Blarney What to wear: You’re parade in South Boston. just come to Dot Day and Stone— the other spon- Chris Lovett captured the scene as a band made its going to be on your feet There’s zero tolerance see them all in one two- sor— on Dot Avenue way up Dorchester Avenue last June. for hours if you do this on underage boozing hour extravaganza. Plus, before the parade. (See or Fields Corner. Both Pro-tip: There’s usually a right, so footwear is in particular, so don’t we were gay friendly story, page 14). Locals stations are right on Dot raucous group watching your most important risk it. Adult spectators before it was a thing. will tell you it’s not a bad Ave. and just steps from from the side-lot at Peggy decision of the day. If you may, however, enjoy There’s something for way to snag a prime and big crowds. O’Neill’s bar. want to blend in like an their beverage of choice everyone in this parade. well-hydrated spot in the Where to watch (and The glory of Dot Day old-school Dot Rat, may on private property or For the folks that shade along the parade blend in with the big is in its inherent ability we suggest a pair of mint- from one of the Dot Ave’s grew up here (OFD), route. crowd)? Along the wall to bring people together– green or hot-blue Adidas favorite establishments the day is a walk down Before the parade, (and under the trees) often over brews and hot Gazelles? Old-school including Ashmont Grill, memory lane (and a State Sen. Linda Forry at Dorchester Park in dogs. It’s a day to get to sneaker heads break Harp & Bard, and the 3.2-mile parade route). typically hosts a greeting Lower Mills, south of know your neighbors out these high school Banshee. The Blarney For some, it’s a time to tent at the Meetinghouse Carney Hospital; in- and, especially after this throwbacks and share Stone is a very popular return to one’s roots and Bank parking lot in tersection of Dot Ave winter, spend some time notes on which variety spot because its windows relive the glory days of a Lower Mills— where lots and Gallivan Boulevard; outside. store they copped them open up to the route and street corner youth. For of pols and dignitaries Peabody Square; in front A n d e v e n w h e n from in the 1980s. it has an amazing out- others, it’s celebrating stop to swap parade of St. Mark’s Church; the the street clean - Vendors along the door patio. It’s usually local organizations and gossip, take photos and Blarney Stone; and the ers come through, route will be hawking a big crowd, especially groups that march in a sneak in a water break. Savin Hill Ave. intersec- Dot Day isn’t over. Dot-themed t-shirts among those who run in the parade, not to men- Getting there: The MBTA tion. Longtime families host and tanks. Longtime the pre-parade Blarney tion the scores of kids is your friend today. Cars If you like to watch post-parade BBQs, so Dot activist Lew Finfer Stone-Project DEEP 5k. and cousins marching will be ticketed and the parade in a more get to know your fel- breaks out his vintage So dust off those in their little league towed along Dot Ave. intimate setting (e.g. low spectators along three-decker tee for Adidas Gazelles (or order uniforms. and Richmond Street small crowd), stick to the the route and you’re every parade. Notice them online STAT) and Dot Day itself is steeped ahead of the parade, so stretch between Freeport likely to score an invite. we said three-decker, get ready to party like in tradition. Around for if you typically park on Street and Hecla Street. City Councillor Frank not triple-decker. Triple a Dot Rat this Sunday over 100 years now, the the avenue, have a plan It’s typically quite thin, Baker hosts a block deckers are sandwiches. for the biggest day in parade started as a way to move it a few hours albeit a bit of a hike from party on Dot Ave north If you’re a legit Dot Dorchester. See you on to mark the foundation of ahead of time. Take the either the Savin Hill and of Columbia Rd. with free “kid”— you know it’s a the Ave. Dorchester as a Puritan Red Line to Ashmont Fields Corner T stops. food, music, and other three-decker. Happy Dorchester Day We are your from all you friends at Feeney Brothers Excavation LLC

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Dorchester native and former US Navy Seal Stephen Butler (shown with Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and City Councilor Annissa Essaibi-George) acknowledges applause after main speech. Chris Lovett photo

Starting up Hill Top Street from the McKeon Post: members of the Greater Boston Firefighters Pipes and Drums. Chris Lovett photo

Members of the Thomas J. Kenny Elementary School Marching Band at Cedar Grove Cemetery. Chris Lovett photo

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Members of Irish 28th Massachusetts Volunteers. Chris Lovett photo

Residents watched the parade go by on Milton Street. Chris Lovett photo

Watching the ceremony at Cedar Grove Cemetery: Cindy Monahan (left) of Dorchester with her 2-and-a-half year-old daughter Aoife McMoran and Josh Conroy (right) with 5-year-old daughter Chloe. Chris Lovett photo Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts from Pack/Troop 28 on parade. Chris Lovett photo dotnews.com May 31, 2018 THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT Page 17B Former Navy SEAL: Dot’s support for service members makes it a special place Stephen Butler, a especially with my group down those hallways. like anyone owes me former Navy SEAL and of friends. Hell, I fully And that’s why we are anything for that. I don’t Dorchester native, was expect to get heckled as gathered here today. To feel entitled or special. the keynote speaker at soon as I step off this remember all those who But people from this Monday’s Memorial Day podium. made that sacrifice. community don’t seem ceremony in Cedar Grove So, while I didn’t grow Today we remember to care about that. The Cemetery. The following up on a farm shooting and we celebrate all support this community are excerpts from Butler’s guns like most guys in those who have served has for the military is remarks. [my class] I could sure and sacrificed for this truly special and unique. I grew up right up take some physical and country. For me, I can’t Both of my deployments the street from here. I mental abuse. stand up here and pre- were over the holidays. went to St. Brendan’s After I graduated from tend to know what that That can be hard. School then Archbishop SEAL Qualification means or what that feels Everyone wants to be Williams High School Training I was assigned like. I’m sure there are home with their families and Framingham State to SEAL Team Four. I people in the audience and friends during that College. I have always did two deployments to that have been through time. So while you’re been pretty involved East Africa with Team far more then I have and away, especially during in the community. Af- Four and I got out of the there are people buried the holidays, any little ter college, I coached Navy and moved back in this cemetery that reminders of home are D o r c h e s t e r Y o u t h home last summer. I have sacrificed more always appreciated. Hockey for a few years spent a little over 6 years than I can imagine. But And the support I got and was involved with in the Navy and truly what I can do is try to find from this community was Project D.E.E.P for a enjoyed my time in the that common ground, pretty special. Most Retired Navy SEAL Stephen Butler with Steve Bick- number of years as well. SEAL Teams. I think the one thing that bonds guys would get packages erton of the Old Dorchester Post. Ed Forry photo After I graduated from that it provided me the past, present and future from their wife’s or girl- college, like most people, experiences and growth military members. friends every month or no matter the branch or So today we come I was trying to figure out that I needed in my life. And I think what that so. Maybe a parent here their rank or rat,e got the together to thank those what I wanted to do with I had the opportunity to is, is a sense of service. and there. But not me. same support from this who have served and my life. I had always had serve with some great Wars change, soldiers I had stacks upon stacks community that I did. are still with us, and we the military in the back guys and create relation- evolve, but the one con- in my room. My wife had And the support wasn’t honor and remember of my mind, being a Navy ships that I will have for stant is that sense of to have sent at least one just when I was deployed. those who are no longer SEAL in particular… the rest of my life. To service. Because all those a week, my family, my When I got out of the with us. I’d like to The first things people be a part of the SEAL who have served know friends, cards from the Navy last summer and thank the people of ask me is always, ‘How community is something that it’s not something school my wife worked moved back home so this community for the was the training, how very special. we do for ourselves. at, the school my sister many people reached out support they have given did you make it through The SEAL Teams truly Those people didn’t worked at, the Leahy to me and were willing me and all prior service hell week?’ And for me, are a brotherhood. It’s fight for themselves, Holloran Community to help me with my members, for the support I’m not going to stand an extremely tight knit they didn’t sacrifice for Center, and then local transition. I got phone that they are giving our up here and say it was group and a very unique themselves. They fought Boston organizations calls and emails from current service members easy, but I think there and special part of the for the people standing that I’ve never even people that I never even and for the continued is a reason that I didn’t military. I think one of next to them, they fought heard of... met offering to help in support I know that struggle with it as much the best things that the for people that couldn’t And that wasn’t just any way they could. The they will give our future as some guys did. You Teams do is remember fight, they sacrificed for my personal experience. support and respect this service members. So obviously have to be their fallen brothers. 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The Rev. James K. Allen was not a Plantation in the Wilderness.” the children born the first year died, early 1500s with Zwingli and many of native of Dorchester, but became one of After one saga by some of the men up so those who survived were regarded their basic ideas were strengthened by our community’s most well-loved and the Charles River to the present area of as even more precious. Life expectancy John Calvin in Switzerland and John respected members during his long the arsenal in Watertown where they in colonial America was less than 20 Knox in Scotland. All this happened as tenure as pastor of the First Parish planted their gardens as the Indians years. a foundation to the Puritan movement Church on Meetinghouse Hill. Rev. watched them in amazement, they It was the purpose of the people to in England that led to the Massachu- Allen was perhaps the most well-versed returned to Mattapan at the behest emphasize the sacred in their lives, setts Bay Colony and Dorchester, in Dorchester historian of his generation of the majority who chose the shores and that was the whole meaning of particular. and in 1979 he published this remark- of Savin Hill and the Mouth of the the Puritan Revolution. They protested Henry VIII leaned on this arm of able essay about the Puritan people who Neponset River as most favorable for what was known as the Cavalier spirit religion when he succeeded in having settled the town of Dorchester in 1630 settlement. A group of these people in Mother England, where profane Parliament declare the independence and their early history in the “New returned to Watertown in the fall of attitudes toward life were blatant of the Church of England in 1534. World.” In the 39 years since Rev. Allen 1630 to harvest their crops planted the and destructive, and obscenity was so The Church of England remained wrote this article, many things have first week of June. commonplace as to cause the Puritan the official bastion of religion until changed in Dorchester. Our population The Dorchester settlement was reformers to close all the theaters and Mary came to the throne in 1553 to is no longer the astounding 200,000 selected as an appealing location with places of public meeting, where pos- re-establish Roman Catholicism. Then that Rev. Allen accurately recorded at conditions favorable for gardens and sible, in order that what was left of the Queen Elizabeth restored the power the time; the Kennedy Library, which the feeding of farm animals on which sacred would not be overwhelmed. The of the Church of England in 1558, was then still a promise, has now been the new settlers would lean heavily for home life developed by the Dorchester but only on paper. Large numbers of completed and its dream fulfilled. their subsistence on this new continent. Puritans served as evidence that these English people continued to be Roman Sadly, we’ve also lost a great friend The harbor of Massachusetts Bay itself, people not only sought a new way Catholics in faith and belief. In 1585, in Rev. Allen, who died in February with two rivers –the Charles and the of life but found one of its strongest an Act was passed in Parliament 1991, but lives on in our memories Neponset–was a favorable place, with foundations in their homes. accusing all Jesuits and seminary and through his thoughtful writings, the protection of many islands facing A second foundation of the early priests entering the realm as guilty such as this. the Atlantic, and beautiful background Dorchester Community was the of high treason for which there was BY REV. JAMES K. ALLEN of forested hills. Dorchester seemed Church–a gathering of Christian punishment of hanging, drawing, and Dorchester, with a population of the most advantageous location for the people who quartering. Father Thomas Pilchard just under 200,000 people, is the most dominant colony in New England, held certain commitments about was tried and executed on the gallows second-largest urban center in Mas- as indeed it was for the first century. their faith and belief known to the in Dorchester, England. There were sachusetts. That, in itself, would make Only because of the deeper channels in world as Puritan. The word “Puritan” many others throughout the realm, Dorchester important; but through its its harbor did Boston outstrip Dorches- was an epithet hurled at them and was so that regardless of any implication history, Dorchester rightly deserves to ter in population and commercial life. identified by others as negative, hence, made by any writer, the early Puritans be recognized as “a foundation stone of Even then, it borrowed many of its in many ways destructive of social and the faithful Roman Catholics had our nation” because so many important important developments from the town values. In some ways, Puritanism could a common bond of resentment and developments in our history had their of Dorchester and its people. rightly be identified in these ways: but also of faith that would later result in beginnings herein. The early Dorchester community had a wider study of its effects both on the a basic acceptance–one of the other–in When Captain Squebb of the Mary foundations four-square: home, church, people and the civilization which they Dorchester, Massachusetts colony. and John unloaded his 140 passengers school, and town. The home was the produced bordered on the admirable. It The ecumenical spirit, so new in many at Hull, in 1630, the Massachusetts Bay starting point for the new-born, but is not a completely strange system of parts of the world, was not strange in Colony had its second group of settlers, it was also more than that. It was not belief but had its beginnings in Man- Dorchester from its beginning though the first being Salem about six months only a fortress against the world, but ichaeism of the late fourth century, to the actual physical Church in the Mas- before. These jettisoned people made also a training place where the children which the great Augustine was himself sachusetts Bay colony was made up of their way by fishing boats to Savin learned the ways of piety and godliness a convert for many years, and then English Puritans who themselves suf- Hill Bay to begin their colony on the from their earliest impressions. The came to the surface again in the late fered threats and violence at the hands land called Mattapan by the Indians Bible was read daily and prayers were 12th century with the Cathari of the of English law and the enforcement of of the area, but destined to be called said, not only at the beginning and Roman Catholic Church. They cham- that law demanding conformity. Dorchester at the home base of those end of the day but also in thankful- pioned the Bible, especially the New The Dorchester Colony, like other Puritan adventurers. Inspired by the ness before meals. Homes were the Testament as the root of their religions units in the Massachusetts Bay, was Reverend John White, they chose to fortresses of their lives - the training faith and opposed the absorption of all a theocracy with the powers of govern- cross the Atlantic and make a new schools of character as well as shelter religious authority as residual in the ment centered in the Church and the beginning in this new land where from the pristine wilderness. Death clergy. They attempted to purify their authority of the Church residual in they would name their community laid a heavy hand upon the young, with lives and attracted so much attention as the membership of the congregation, Dorchester in honor of the pastor, John no understanding of sanitation and no to threaten the mainstream of Church though in actual fact, the clergy White who sponsored them and helped means of combating such epidemics as life for another century. Religious exercised wide influence. The people them prepare for their new life in a new smallpox, diphtheria, and a long list attitudes very similar in kind surfaced were allowed to vote but the power area which they referred to as “God’s of fatal illnesses. Two out of three of with the Anabaptists of Europe in the of franchise was limited to those who dotnews.com May 31, 2018 THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT Page 19B for a Nation Early Days and Contributions belonged to the Church, so the Church where the word originated, but only was a political power in the life of the one person out of 10 was qualified to Dorchester community. vote in the Old World. Richard Mather, who was regarded When the beating of the drum sum- as a reformer in England and looked moned the inhabitants of the Town of on with disfavor by the bishops there, Dorchester “every Mooneday of the came to New England in 1635. He had Monthe,” the citizens were asked to been a schoolmaster at Toxteth Park assemble in the Meetinghouse to con- in Liverpool where he was known as sider their civic and political problems a skillful educator. It was normal, and responsibilities. These meetings therefore, that he should emphasize were called in the morning because it education in Dorchester where he was was a time when indoor lighting was called to be minister of the Church in inadequate. 1636. His work with the people gave All power of political action was rise to a school - the first tax-supported assumed by the New England Town school in America. Three other towns Meeting, except when their actions claim this distinction: Boston, with its encroached upon the authority of the Latin School, Dedham, and Rehoboth. Commonwealth or of their British The Boston Public Latin School was over-Lords whose authority they repu- opened in 1635, but it was public in the diated in common practice. This Town British sense; the scholars paid their Meeting form of government spread tuition costs. The town of Boston did rapidly to Cambridge, Watertown, not contribute any money to the Latin and other towns, and was made an Rev. James K. Allen was one of the great custodians of Dorchester history in School until 1641. School in Dedham official instrument of government by the 20th century. was tax-supported from its beginning, the General court in 1638. Roger Ludlow, left Dorchester in the shipboard to found Dorchester, South but Dedham was not even incorporated The Town of Dorchester included all company with Thomas Hooker and Carolina in 1696. There was discon- until the Dorchester public school had of the land between Boston, which be- some of his friends of Cambridge tent in South Carolina because of been in operation for four years; and the gan at the channel at the present South (Newton) .They made their way to inadequate acreage for farming, and same thing can be said about Rehoboth Station, and the Plymouth Colony the Connecticut River and floated swamp fever. The greatest problem, and its public school. that included what became the town down to found the colony at Windsor, however, was the building of the The tax-supported public school had of Braintree, the nearest part of which Connecticut. Ludlow, unhappy because Church of Saint George in the middle its beginning in Dorchester with Mr. is now known as Quincy. Dorchester he had not been appointed Governor of the Dorchester colony at the behest Thomas Waterhouse as its teacher. boundaries included the communities in the place of Winthrop, decided to of the governing authorities in South The school opened in March at 7 in now know as Squantum and Wollaston, leave Massachusetts. He wrote “The Carolina. It was the legal church - the the morning and continued until 5 as well as the present towns of Milton, fundamental Orders of Connecticut” Church of England - which the colonists in the evening through the month of Hyde Park, the adjacent parts of what that furnished the framework of our were called on to support by taxation September, with two hours off for lunch became Wrentham, Stoughton, Sharon, federal Constitution and the constitu- but in whose religions life they did not except for examinations that came Foxboro, and Canton (Dorchester tions of many states. Though brilliant, share. The people of Dorchester, South on Tuesdays to test the Sabbath Day Village). Dorchester’s land reached to he was a malcontent and departed from Carolina, investigated possibilities and learning of the scholars. They met on within 150 rods of the Rhode Island Windsor to die in Virginia. Dorchester’s moved in 1752 to found the towns of Saturday for instruction in catechism border. Though new settlers continued first minister, John Warham, went Midway and Sunbury, Georgia. From and began every school day with prayer, to arrive in Dorchester from England, to Connecticut with those dissidents. this Georgia community came two ending it the same way in the afternoon. the population was thinly scattered The Reverend John Maverick died in signers of the Declaration of Indepen- This six-day-perweek program contin- over the hinterland with most of the 1635, so the dence, four governors of Georgia, two ued from October through February - a people living near the ocean and along Dorchester people called Richard of the nation’s greatest scientists, the 12-month session - except that the day the few roads of the town, the most Mather, recently arrived from England, founder of the University of California, was shortened from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. important of which were the Lower to be their new minister. He began his representatives and senators, both during the five months of less daylight. Road, now Adams Street, and the Up- work in 1636 and continued until the in states and nation, as well as 85 The other foundation of life in per Road, now Washington Street, time of his death in 1669, at the age of clergymen; also, the grandfather of Dorchester was the Town. Towns Centre Street, and a small complex 73. He was regarded as an authority Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Theodore are as old as human history, but the that was called the village center on on theological subjects by his New Roosevelt, as well as the father of Mrs. democratic form of government which Allin’s Plain, where Pleasant Street England contemporaries and authored Woodrow Wilson. had its beginnings in Dorchester, met east Cottage Street. It was within America’s first book, “The Bay Psalm Industries in the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, was something new in the triangle formed at this junction that Book.” Richard Mather was the father Massachusetts were notable from its the world. Roger Ludlow, who served as the first Meetinghouse and the village of Increase and the grandfather of beginnings. Agriculture and fishing Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts school were built; and nearby, the old Cotton Mather, outstanding clergymen began with the arrival of the first Bay Colony under Winthrop, was the Blake House (1650), oldest frame house of early New England. Dorchester settlers. A corn mill, powered by man who instituted what has come to in the United States and still standing. people continued to move. Some went the waterfall in the lower Neponset be known as the New England Town New settlers arrived from Boston to Taunton, and many of them were River, was the first power mill in New Meeting on October 8, 1633 - the most and settlements to the north, and some included among the early residents of England. The first of Dorchester’s three democratic process of government came by ship from Englandin 1632, Northampton. An organized colony, clay pits was opened, and building known to history. The ancient Greeks especially. A n o t h e r group, motivated partly gathered from other towns, bricks were made from it in the early exercised the process of democracy, by the discontent of Deputy Governor left Dorchester, Massachusetts on years of the colony. Downtown Boston was built from bricks molded and fired near one of Dorchester’s three clay pits. The clay from one of them, Kaolin, was used in making pottery, - an industry that continues until the present day. Shipbuilding was well-developed as an industry at Commercial Point for more than a century. The modern-day Dorchester includes one of the nation’s greatest hospitals, the Carney, plus six neighborhood health centers. It is the site of the Dorchester Ice Cream plant, the Boston Globe, the nerve center of the First National Bank system, the Harbor Campus of the University of Massachusetts, the Joseph Pollak Corporation, plus many wholesale and retail establishments. The first supermarket of the nation, Elm Farm, was here, as was the first Howard Johnson restaurant in the nation. Many things have their beginning here. The first playing cards in America were made in Dorchester, the first stringed instruments factory was here, as was the first paper mill, the first book-printing establishment, and the first chocolate mill. As a present development and a suggestion for future leadership of the Dorchester community, the Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum is now Rev. James Allen (second from right) leads a prayer on the shore of Savin Hill Beach, commemorating the arrival of under construction in Dorchester. Puritan settlers from Dorchester, England in June 1630. File photo Page 20B THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT May 31, 2018 dotnews.com For actor Kevin Chapman ‘true north’ will always be Inwood Street, Dorchester By Bill Forry ing from the second-floor Olney streets found Editor porch that used to be common ground in more Inwood Street is a his perch. “Looking at than just family hard- classic Dorchester side it now, it’s relatively ship. On weekends, they street, densely packed small, but as a child it took over the parking lot with three-deckers, but was massive.” of the old Meetinghouse still somewhat insulated He calls up to a current Bank across the street from the bustle and bus occupant of the house, and played street hockey traffic of the Bowdoin who is lounging on the for hours on end— until Street business district porch. “I used to live the bells tolled nine a block away. in that apartment,” he o’clock from the top of Kevin Chapman has some 62 TV and film credits to his name, dating back to Kevin Chapman no hollers. “That’s good!” St. Peter’s. the man replies good- “That’s how we knew 1998, when he caught his first break as Mickey Pat in the film “Monument longer lives here, but Ave.” Some other notable roles include: Val Savage in “Mystic River,” above, Inwood is still home for naturedly. “I think I left it was time to pack it in.” (2003), Frank McKinny in “Ladder 49” (2004), Freddie Cork in “Brotherhood” the actor and producer a few things; mind if I Some days, they’d hike (2008), Terrance in “Rescue Me” (2009) and Lionel Fusco, below, left, in “Per- who is best known for come up and get ‘em?” up Mount Ida Street to son of Interest, the TV series that ran on CBS from 2011-2016. Source: IMDB playing either a cop or Chapman counters, Ronan Park at the top a criminal (sometimes, bursting into a belly of the with its majestic both) on TV and film. laugh. The man on the vistas of Dorchester Now 55, he is so con- porch answers in kind. Bay and beyond to go nected to this street Chapman can still head-to-head with kids that he named his film rattle off the old Inwood from the other side of company, Inwood Street family names — “the Bowdoin Street in their Productions. Haleys, the Butts, the chosen game. “It’s the last street Curriers, the McGees, When he wasn’t where my entire fam- the Sullivans, the polishing his slapshot, ily lived together,” Phippses.” Kevin’s mom Chapman was hustling Chapman said during a raised him and his three himself to or from one visit to his old stomping siblings here for most of of several public schools grounds last week, as his childhood, spending he attended over an the Reporter tagged $325 a month for renting academic life that was along. The Chapmans the second-floor apart- roiled, like many, by the arrived here when he ment. chaotic desegregation- was eight years old. “A lot of families here era busing order. He “We thought we had were struggling. I think attended, variously, the got the house on the maybe there were two nearby Mather School hill, getting out of the families on the whole on Meetinghouse Hill, Mission Hill projects,” street who had a Dad. It the Holmes School in he recalls, looking up was just getting by. But, Codman Square, the at his former address, we were like one big, Holland School off 5 Inwood, a tidy, well- dysfunctional family.” Geneva Ave, and the decorated house with The kids on Inwood Grover Cleveland in “In the sixth grade, I School on Lawrence most convenient loca- flowering plants swing- and nearby Norton and Fields Corner. was sent over to the King Ave., which wasn’t the (Continued on page 21B)

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@MassConvention DAVID M. GIBBONS /MassConvention EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR massconvention.com dotnews.com May 31, 2018 THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT Page 21B Chapman has traveled far, but Inwood Street remains his creative base (Continued from page 20B) coordinator in Dorches- saying, ‘You’re a kid Bostonians, since early crime watch and civic Chapman isn’t part tion,” he says. “I never ter’s District Three. It from Bowdoin Street. buzz is that the show association meetings, of the writing team for went to the same school was – and is – grueling You can’t do that.’ will lean more heavily serving as a liaison to “City on a Hill.” He has two years in a row. We and thankless work, “You really have to on the hackneyed theme other elected officials learned from experience were constantly shipped carrying the mayor’s be secure in your life of Charlestown as the and police— and helping that his role will likely somewhere else.” banner in front of as a person to pursue home of Boston Irish to direct city services to stay on the periphery. But when he was out of sometimes disgruntled something like that,” bank robbers than on constituents. Unless asked, he’s not the classroom, Chapman community groups on a he said. “After about the the streets of Roxbury “It was eye-opening likely to offer much stayed grounded in his nightly basis, respond- third or fourth job you and Dorchester where to see how active this input beyond his own immediate environs. The ing to incidents and say, ‘I must be okay at the true carnage of the community is,” said character. “If they do, I young “Chappy” earned accidents of all sorts this because they keep early 90s was so much Chapman as he walked welcome it,” he said. “If extra coin by stocking when they happen. hiring me.’” more acute. his dog Maverick along they don’t, I know what shelves at Brother’s But the job had definite In fact, Kevin Chap- Chapman’s character the crest of Ronan Park my approach is going to Market— now America’s upsides, too. Chapman man has been in demand. – Dickie Monogue – is a last Thursday. “I didn’t be for my character and Food Basket— for $1.50 met his future wife, Most recently, he cop with a conscience. “I realize how many com- how I’ll find the truth in after school and $3 all Meaghan Kennedy, at ended a very success- play a Boston narcotics munity groups and my character.” day on a Saturday. one of Father Dan Finn’s ful five-season run officer who is kind of crime watches there The notion of character He shined shoes at monthly community portraying NYPD Det. the antagonist for Kevin were, so many people I is a frequent theme with the Horseshoe Tavern. meetings at St. Mark’s Lionel Fusco on the Bacon’s character,” he met over time who are Chapman, who says he Later, he watched his on Dorchester Ave. They popular series, “Person said. “When you first really invested. It was a stays grounded to the older sister Gail get mar- now have two children. of Interest.” He is one meet this guy, you kind great education for me.” roles he takes on by his ried inside St. Peter’s Paying his dues on of the film industry’s of assume that he may In that job, Chapman formative years soaking Church, the monument the nightly Dorchester go-to character actors be the one who is morally helped the city choose up the people he grew to Catholicism and Pud- political beat eventually with credits that will challenged, and then, as targets for programs up with in the Bowdoin dingstone engineering led to a promotion: He soon include a brand the story unfolds you re- like the Top Ten Most Street neighborhood. that still dominates the was assigned to head new Showtime police alize that he is probably Wanted Drug Den, a “It has helped me eastern end of Bowdoin up the now-defunct Bos- drama series set in his the guy whose moral task force that picked tremendously to find the Street. ton Film Office, where hometown— “City on a compass is calibrated.” off vacant properties truth in the characters “Anytime anyone asks he provided logistical Hill.” Produced by Matt Chapman says he’ll that were— back then— that I’ve played. That’s me, I always say St. support to filmmakers Damon and Ben Affleck, bring his own under- havens for sales or drug why you’ve never seen Peter’s Parish, that’s shooting pictures in the the series— which is standing of how policing use. me in a superhero movie where I grew up,” says city. The job put him in set to begin production and community activism “When I was there or anything like that— Chapman. daily contact with people soon, with a tentative dovetail to drive down working for the city, I because I can’t find truth Other jobs came later. like Ted Demme, the premiere date set for crime rates. He had a didn’t really reflect on in that. And if I can’t find He wheeled tour buses late filmmaker who gave next year— is purport- unique vantage point to what was happening. truth, I can’t play it.” through tourist-trap Chapman a part in the edly about the so-called observe this interaction It was a period of time Reporter editor Bill Boston, cleaned up at a Denis Leary film “Monu- “Boston Miracle,” a as Tom Menino’s eyes where everyone pulled Forry can be reached at pig farm up in Holliston, ment Ave.,” which was 1990s setting that has and ears in much of together. No one person [email protected]. ran a parking lot next to set in Charlestown. already rankled some Dorchester — attending can take credit for it.” the State House, and, From there, his career for a time, worked as a snowballed, as directors bouncer at a Boston com- filming in Boston found a edy nightclub. Chapman willing apprentice in the also worked as a teller at brawny, 30-something South Boston Savings Dorchester “kid.” At Bank— a role that he that point in his life, says has informed one Chapman, who admits of his most high-profile to having yearned for the local gigs of the last few spotlight much earlier, years — serving as the was ready for the chal- spokesman for the City lenge. of Boston Credit Union. In a 2001 interview (He has maintained his with the Reporter, he membership with the admitted that he had credit union since his always yearned to act, days as a city employee.) but he got off to a late His last career turn start, in part because he before he became a pro- had a touch of self-doubt fessional actor was the sowed in by some of his most fortuitous for more early experiences in the than one reason. When neighborhood. the late Boston Mayor “There’d always been Thomas M. Menino was that constant corner first elected in 1993, badgering,” Chapman Chapman, who had told the Reporter later supported his campaign, on, in 2006. “Acting was applied for and won always in the back of my the job of City Hall’s head, but there was also neighborhood services the evil twin, I guess, Kevin Chapman, left, walks along Inwood Street last week. At right: The Reporter’s Bill Forry

Kevin Chapman walked his dog Maverick along the crest of Ronan Park last week. He spent a few years living with this view as a resident of Mt. Ida Road. Page 22B THE Reporter DORCHESTER DAY SUPPLEMENT May 31, 2018 dotnews.com Dorchester Historical Society is looking to broaden its appeal to the younger set By Jennifer Smith family barn and carriage Taylor jokes, but “I’m News Editor house, and the William always pleased when Over its 175 years of Clapp and Lemuel Clap we get a new piece of existence, the Dorches- houses. The Lemuel Gleason pewter.” ter Historical Society has Clap, which is currently Dorchester tinsmith collected, preserved, and being renovated, has Roswell Gleason and one shared knowledge about exterior siding that is “in of his sons opened the what happened in the old bad shape,” Taylor said. first silver-plating es- Puritan town since it was “It’s been neglected for a tablishment in America established in 1630. long time.” on Washington Street in While actively main- As they did with work the early- to mid-1800s. taining several classic on the William Clapp His work evolved from properties, accumulating house, the historical simple and traditional artifacts of importance, society and its consul- styles to a more heavily and offering program- tant conferred on the ornamented and opulent ming from its Boston appropriate outside color look to better suit his Vic- Street base, the society is scheme for Lemuel’s torian clientele. Pieces of also adapting to modern old home, which will be his work crop up every pressures as it charts its roughly the reverse of the once in a while, Taylor way into the future. neighboring house. said, and the historical Restoration work on the exterior of the Lemuel Clap House on Boston Street The society oversees Their ability to do the society moves to add is ongoing this season. Peggy Mullen photo/DHS and maintains several rehabbing work is “a them to its collection. of Dorchester’s classic testament to the chari- On the third Sunday “We’ve long neglected Street properties and the House Tour, is not taking homes, like the Clapp tableness of Dorchester of each month, the group the 20th century.” Blake House – should place this year, the group houses on Boston Street. stakeholders,” Taylor gathers in the Clapp Rugo and Taylor are be on programming and is hopeful that they will The William Clapp said. The society has also house for presentations acutely aware of the need finding ways to broaden be able to expand out house, newly spruced applied for a Community like the one Jim Vrabel to expand the society’s our appeal.” into villages beyond the up and with a fresh coat Preservation Act grant and Lew Finfer gave on board and membership, The society’s online Ashmont area for next of historically accurate to do the final exterior activism in Dorchester in including bringing in presence has expanded year. paint, is where the group work, including painting the 1960s and 1970s. The younger participants. in recent months. There’s New board members gathers for monthly the barn and repairing society also hosts tours of “We’re looking to di- more activity on its Twit- are bringing different meetings. the fencing, said board the neighborhood houses versify our membership; ter handle @DotHist parts of Dorchester into “We’re finally at the member Vicki Rugo. and walking tours on a broaden it, get the young- and on Facebook with the mix, Rugo said, which finish of our long-term Funds donated to the regular basis. er people involved,” Rugo mystery photos and ar- is an encouraging shift. plan to restore the ex- society are used for “We’ve always had said. “So I think our focus chived images, and there “Everybody’s history is terior of all our proper- ongoing preservations programming going, but after the properties — are neighborhood trivia important,” Rugo said. ties,” said Earl Taylor, efforts, programs, and we want to spend more and there was so much nights at the nearby “It’s not just that you the society’s president. the never-ending parade time dealing directly deferred maintenance Dorchester Brewing were a Blake or a Clapp Forthe past 15 years, the of cataloguing historic with programming to over the years that pre- Company. or came over on the Mary society has been all about documents and artifacts. see if we can get more dates when Earl and all Although the recently and John.” restoring the James They are about 300 years diversity in our pro- the other people were revived gem of a fundrais- Blake house, The Clapp behind on cataloguing, grams,” Taylor said. involved with the Boston ing effort, the Dorchester

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We must also acknowledge the Dorchester Day Parade Grand Marshal Edward A. Kelly As we all know, Edzo is the proud son of Dorchester who is raising his family here. He is a Boston Firefighter from Ladder 17 who has served as our President, as the State President of the Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts and currently is representing 310,000 firefighters across the United States and Canada as the General Secretary-Treasurer of the International Association of Fire Fighters; the IAFF. Edzo is making his mark nationally as a visionary labor leader whose future is bright. This gives us great pride. For the active and retired members of Boston Firefighters Local 718, Happy Dorchester Day and see you around Florian. Rich Paris, President of Local 718