IN REMEMBRANCE Nationally Acclaimed Expressionist Artist Receives the Key to the City of Lawrence
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VOL. 120 - NO. 37 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 $.35 A COPY Giovanni DeCunto IN REMEMBRANCE Nationally Acclaimed Expressionist Artist Receives the Key to the City of Lawrence SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 Ray DiFiore (former president of the St. Alfi o Society), Tom Zappala, Giovanni DeCunto, Mayor Dan Rivera of Lawrence, and Armand Hyatt of Lawrence Community Works. (Photos by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) City Council Hearing on Nationally acclaimed artist to the people of Lawrence to and pointed to the bronze eagle Giovanni DeCunto was presented make the city great again. sitting on top of the roof. He told with the key to city of Lawrence Mayor Rivera, who also me, ‘Someday you are going to North End Nursing Home by the honorable Daniel Rivera, grew up in the city, expressed make that eagle fl y.’ Today, I All are Invited to Attend September 13th Mayor of Lawrence, on Friday his gratitude to Giovanni for hope I did that.” evening September 2, 2016. The taking an interest in his roots. Currently a spokesperson for The public hearing we have a Nursing Home providing long ceremony was held at the main Mayor Rivera compared his Lawrence-based New Balance, all been waiting for is coming term care. But many of us feel bandstand of the Feast of The own upbringing with that of DeCunto is exploring ways to up Tuesday, September 13th, we need both services (as well Three Saints. DeCunto’s as two kids who have a presence in Lawrence thanks to City Councillor Sal as the rehabilitation services Only the fifth person to grew up with nothing, yet had in addition to his new studio LaMattina. The hearing has currently offered in the nurs- receive the key to the city, a passion to better themselves and gallery on Lewis Wharf in been arranged specifically to ing home) and want to be sure DeCunto grew up in Lawrence, and to make a difference. Boston. He plans to present a have the BRA come and explain some part of whatever becomes and studied at Mass College After receiving the award, painting to the City of Lawrence the Land Disposition Agreement of this facility still serves the of Art and the University of Giovanni DeCunto thanked the as a token of his appreciation (LDA) on the North End Nursing needs of community members Padua in Italy, where he began mayor and remarked, “When later this year. Home to the City Council, and requiring long term nursing to paint with his hands rather I was young, my father took To view Giovanni’s work, go will take place in City Hall at care and/or rehabilitation. If than brushes, creating his me in front of city hall one day to: www.giovannidecunto.com. 6:00 pm in the City Council you agree, we encourage you to own unique signature style. Chamber on the 5th floor. come and tell the Council why Considered the foremost This is a public hearing and all our North End Nursing Home Expressionist artist in the are welcome and encouraged is still needed. Put faces on the country, DeCunto has been to attend. You do not have to folks who may need this facility commissioned to paint for be a resident of the North End; in the near future. Your elderly celebrities, politicians, private this issue affects the surround- parents, aunts and uncles who collectors, and institutions all ing communities as well. (The have lived here all their lives. over the world. His paintings nearest nursing homes after Maybe you or your spouse, your hang in the White House, the the North End Nursing Home siblings, your cousins. Not to Smithsonian Institute, the Fogg are just over 4 miles away in mention that any of us, at any Museum, the George Bush Chelsea and about 6 miles away time, at any age, can be felled Library and the Museum of in Medford ... not walkable, by a stroke or accident requir- Fine Arts. and the public transportation ing long term care. The only other recipients of options aren’t great, either.) The format of this meeting is this award are famed composer The more people that show up that Councillors will ask ques- Leonard Bernstein, poet Robert the better! We have almost 2000 tions of the invited panelists. Frost, entertainer Sully Erna signatures on our petition, but When they are finished, the of the band Godsmack, and feet on the ground and faces in Committee Chair will open up former DPW Director Raymond the room make the strongest the fl oor to public testimony. DiFiore, who were all born in impression. And VOICES. This If you wish to speak, it is Lawrence. is an opportunity for your voice suggested that you come 15 The program was opened by to be heard. One statement minutes early and sign in on Armand Hyatt, General Counsel that has been made repeatedly the sheet at the entrance. for Lawrence Community by Partners is that there is no Speakers will be called up Works. He stated that the demand for this nursing home. in order of sign-in. This is example Giovanni DeCunto is They cite the number of beds the fi rst chance we have had setting should be an inspiration Opening Ceremony of St. Alfi o Festival now occupied. But they fail to to speak up in person as a mention that they have been community since the NEWNC turning down people for awhile meeting at the Nazzaro Center THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE HAS MOVED TO now. Some have also suggested on June 13th. It’s been three 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON that the facility be changed to an months now. Let’s try and get This offi ce is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Assisted Living Home instead of some movement on this issue! Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM,for the convenience of our East Boston and SAVE OUR NORTH END NURSING HOME North Shore clients and contributors - Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 James DiStefano, President of October as Italian Heritage Month cordially invites you to attend a THE ROMAN TOMBS Dinner 30,000 mausoleums, which had on Friday, the twenty-third of September been obscured, by grass and brush for centuries. Two thousand sixteen Gravestone or tomb in- scriptions seemed to be quite at six-thirty in the evening common. History records the inscription on the tomb of Filippo’s Eurysaces, a wealthy baker, which translates into “Atistia 283 Causeway Street was my wife; she was the best woman alive; of whose body Boston, Massachusetts the remains which are left are in this bread basket.” Another Music by Frank Zarba inscription reads “To Adeodata, Meritorious Virgin, Who Rests Donation $60.00 per person Here In Peace, Her Christ Hav- ing Willed It So.” To purchase tickets call Up to the time of Augus- Jim DiStefano - 617-909-5403 tus, the Romans seemed to be mostly concerned about the Mausoleum of Augustus. tombs of their ancestors, altars for ancestor worship, and the The pre-Christian Romans grade of Romans were either safekeeping of the family relics. practiced two forms of death placed in common burial places After visiting the great tombs of rites: cremation and interment. or just put into the ground Egypt, Augustus, then about 35 Sarcophagi (stone coffi ns) for anywhere outside of the walls. years old, set about the task of the interred body and urns Beautiful family mausoleums building a beautiful mausoleum for the cremated remains were were built by those who could for himself. As an afterthought, sometimes found side-by-side afford the cost. The custom at he provided some extra space in the same tomb. the time was to build the tomb for the other members of his During the later part of the at the side of the various roads family, which were to follow. Roman Empire, the body of leading away from the city. The tomb was completed and nearly every emperor was The tombs were conspicuous remained empty for about fi ve burned on a magnifi cent funeral by their owner’s desire for this years. The fi ckle fi nger of fate pyre while at the same time location, as it made them eas- then pointed to young Marcel- an eagle was released to sym- ily accessible and reasonably lus, who became the tomb’s fi rst bolize his escaping soul. Many secure. The older tombs were tenant. He was the one whose of the wealthy deceased citi- located nearest to the city gates death was least expected and zens, however, were embalmed and, as the roadside spaces be- greatly lamented. Eleven years and placed in huge, costly came fi lled, the line of tombs ex- later, Marcus Agrippa became sarcophagi. tended for more than ten miles. the second occupant. Octavia, These early Romans also de- Tomb lots with frontage di- the sister of Augustus was next, Ray Barron veloped a custom of internment rectly on the roadside were and then came Lucius, the outside of the walled city. Later, highly priced while those lots young son of Agrippa. the laws made it compulsory located back in the fi elds were Caius, another young son LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE that no body (I have the stron- less expensive. A major clear- of Agrippa, soon followed and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commonwealth of Massachusetts gest compulsion at this time to ing project extending for fi ve Augustus himself who died an The Trial Court The Trial Court add “dead or otherwise”) could or six miles along the Appian old and lonely man, became the Middlesex Probate and Family Court Middlesex Probate and Family Court be buried within the walls of Way was undertaken by Pope tomb’s last tenant.