VOL. 119 - NO. 19 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 8, 2015 $.35 A COPY “Taste of the North End” Draws Record Crowd to Support Local Charities by Matt Conti Participants of the 2015 Taste of the North End. (Photo by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) The largest fundraiser in North End honorees were nies. Event organizers There was a wide array of non-profit organizations in the neighborhood, Taste of Angela Menino, Filippo Donato Frattaroli of Lucia entrees, appetizers, cheeses the North End, including the North End, was a roar- Frattaroli and Joseph Ristorante and James Luisi, and desserts with refresh- North End Waterfront Health ing success on Friday night Giangregorio. CEO of North End Waterfront ing libations from area (NEW Health), Eliot K-8 Inno- with record attendance to Jenny Johnson of NESN’s Health Center co-chaired wine and beer distributors. vation School, St. John support local non-profits. Dining Playbook was this the event. Guests also supported the School, North End Athletic This year’s Taste of the year’s Master of Ceremo- Since 1993, TONE has cause through a silent Association (NEAA), North brought together over 40 auction. Proceeds are still End Against Drugs (NEAD), North End restaurants and being counted, but donations North End Music and vendors to offer a sampling are expected to exceed Performing Arts Center News Briefs of world famous cuisine $100,000. (NEMPAC), ABCD Center by Sal Giarratani and beverages. All the Proceeds from the event (North End / West End) and food is generously donated. are split between multiple Boston Youth Wrestling. (See additional photos on Pages 8 & 9) Maybe They Should Have Called it Bank of Bubba? If the Clintons weren’t using the Clinton Foun- dation as a bank for foreign governments and The Journey of a Mother business groups, what was it for? It certainly by Helen Keller doesn’t seem to have been about helping people other than those who are named Clinton. For those who are fortu- young Mother cried, “Noth- most of all...unconditional Investors Business Daily reported about the nate enough to still be ing will ever be lovelier than love. And when they reached timing of donations and favorable policies when blessed by having your Mom this.” the top they said, “Mother, Hillary was secretary of state. The Foundation with you, this is beautiful ... Then the nights came, and we would not have done it has already admitted to making a couple of book- For those who aren’t ... it is the storms, and the path was without you.” keeping “mistakes’ involving donations from even more beautiful. It takes sometimes dark, and the The days went on, and the abroad. my breath! children shook with fear and weeks and the months and However, Hillorats continue to insist there’s The young mother set her cold, and the mother drew the years, and the mother nothing to see there. If that was the case, what foot on the path of life. “Is them close and covered grew old and she became were the foreign donations for? this the long way?” she them with her arms, and the little and bent. But her chil- John Bolton Versus Ed Snowden asked. children said, “Mother, we dren were tall and strong, And the guide said “Yes, are not afraid, for you are and walked with courage. Last week, the Boston Herald ran a commen- and the way is hard. And you near, and no harm can And the other, when she lay tary by John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to will be old before you reach come.” down at night, looked up at the United Nations, supporting the position that the end of it. But the end And the morning came, the stars and said, “This is Congress should re-authorize programs run by the will be better than the and there was a hill ahead, a better day than the last, for National Security Agency. Bolton believes the beginning.” and the children climbed my children have learned agency’s data gathering respects the Fourth But the young mother was and grew weary, and the so much and are now pass- Amendment rights we all enjoy. happy, and she would not mother was weary. But at all ing these traits on to their Bolton opines, “The NSA programs do not involve believe that anything could times she said to the chil- children.” And when the way listening to or reading conversations, but rather be better than these years. dren, “A little patience and became rough for her, they seek to detect communications networks.” He So she played with her chil- we are there.” So the chil- lifted her, and gave her their went on to say, “Indeed, even the collection of the dren, she fed them and dren climbed, and as they strength, just as she had so-called metadata is surrounded by procedural bathed them, and taught climbed they learned to given them hers. One day protections to prevent spying on U.S. citizens.” them how to tie their shoes weather the storms. And they came to a hill, and be- Most of us are not that trusting of our own gov- and ride a bike and reminded with this, she gave them yond the hill, they could see ernment, especially since 9/11, and even less so them to feed the dog, and strength to face the world. a shining road and golden (Continued on Page 14) do their homework and Year after year, she gates flung wide. And mother brush their teeth. The sun showed them compassion, shone on them, and the understanding, hope, but (Continued on Page 10) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, MAY 8, 2015 Res Publica by David Trumbull Charter of Liberty “We hold here that the right to a speedy trial is as fundamen- MUSAE (THE MUSES) tal as any of the rights secured by the Sixth Amendment. That Greek mythology tells us them as 1. Calliope (she of rich in hymns), the Muse right has its roots at the very foundation of our English law that the Muses were origi- the fair voice); the Muse of of serious sacred songs. She heritage. Its first articulation in modern jurisprudence appears nally the nymphs of springs, epic poetry and eloquence, is usually represented to have been made in Magna Carta ...” whose waters gave inspira- the noblest of them all. She veiled and pensive. Lastly, — Chief Justice Earl Warren tion to all who bathed in is usually shown with a there was 9. Urania (the delivering the opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court in the them. One of these springs wax tablet; 2. Clio (she that heavenly). She is the Muse matter of Klopper v. North Carolina, March 13, 1967. was called Castalia. It was a extols), the Muse of history of astronomy that holds a celebrated place on Mount who is usually represented celestial globe. Magna Carta (or, in English, “the Great Charter”) was Parnassus (southern Greece), holding a scroll; 3. Euterpe General belief held that signed by King John (best remembered in the popular mind where a high priestess of (she that gladdens), the the favorite haunts of the as “Bad King John” of the Robin Hood tales) on June 15, th Apollo was accustomed to Muse of lyrical song. She Muses were certain springs 1215. The document, which marks its 800 anniversary bathe. usually holds a double flute; located at the foot of Mount next month, is, in important ways, the foundation of the The early history of Greek 4. Thalia (she that flour- Parnassus, a mountain in liberties of English and American law. The origin was a poetry and music includes ishes), the Muse of comedy southern Greece. All of the dispute between the king and the barons, and neither was many legends about the and bucolic (rustic) poetry. Muses were usually repre- wholly satisfied with the compromises contained in the Muses, those goddesses of She is usually shown hold- sented as virgin goddesses Charter. At the request of John, Pope Innocent III annulled song in general. Later, as ing a comic mask, ivy with long garments and a it. But the genie of liberty was out of the bottle and the folklore developed, they be- wreath, and a shepherd’s cloak. Musical contests were Charter was amended and reaffirmed through the next few came representatives of the staff; 5. Melpomene (she that held in their honor every years and, in 1225, took the final form that makes it a various kinds of arts, sci- sings), the Muse of tragedy five years. Athenians sacri- foundational document in the English system of govern- ences, and poetry. Homer, that is identified by the ficed to them in schools, ment and in every nation whose legal system owes some- the traditional poet of an- tragic mask that she holds; while the ancient Spartans thing to English law. cient Greece, sang of the 6. Terpsichore (she that re- did so before a battle. The god Magna Carta did not create trial by jury, but it did en- Muses dwelling on Mount joices in the dance), the Apollo was looked upon as shrine it as a right, as well as the concept of due process. Olympus and singing to the Muse of dancing.