VOL. 121 - NO. 1 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JANUARY 6, 2017 $.35 A COPY WELCOME TO SOUTHIE Where They Sink and Swim Every New Year’s Day by Sal Giarratani Over in South Boston they have this crazy ritual on New Year’s Day. No matter how cold it is on the sand or in the water. They jump into the water as a rite of passage into the brand new year. What a tradition! They come in all ages, shapes and sizes, wearing all sorts of great costumes. Hun- dreds upon hundreds kept coming out of the L Street Plunge celebration. Superman Proceeds from this plunge, News Briefs Bathhouse for that quick dip was there. Hulk Hogan, Mad one of Boston’s oldest New into Dorchester Bay this past Hatter, Cat Woman and all Year’s Day traditions, fund by Sal Giarratani Sunday. sorts of Santa-like Clauses. A scholarships and after-school This was my fi rst time watch- sight to behold and a tradition programs at the Curley Com- ing the L Street Brownies Polar in motion. munity Center. Israel Barack-Stabbed? “On the eve of Hanukkah, Barack Obama stabbed Israel in the front. The departing president refused Mayor Walsh Announces Expansion of to veto United Nations Resolution 2334, a measure ostensibly about Israeli settlement policy,” said former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton. It Tuition-Free Community College was clearly intended to tip the scales in favor of the Palestinians, and was so predictable. With Addition of Massbay, Three Options Now Available for BPS Graduates President-elect Donald Trump should echo the Mayor Martin J. Walsh re- learn and develop the skills nec- The Tuition-Free Community words of another U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Dan- cently announced that the City essary to join Boston’s talented College Plan had previously only iel Patrick Moynihan, in his response to the UN’s of Boston’s Tuition-Free Com- workforce.” enrolled eligible students at- “Zionism is racism” resolution in 1975. He said that munity College Plan, which MassBay Community College tending Bunker Hill Community America “does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, pays for up to three years of is a multi-campus college with College (BHCC) and Roxbury it will never acquiesce in this infamous act.” community college for eligible a 55-year history of preparing Community College (RCC). The I am sure the irony has not been lost on Israel that Boston Public School gradu- students for transfer to four- inclusion of MassBay Com- Resolution 2334 passed without a U.S. veto just ates, has expanded its par- year colleges or universities, munity College provides plan before the start of Hanukkah, which commemorates ticipating schools to include direct entry into the workforce, enrollees with greater choice of the Maccabees’ recapture and rededication of the MassBay Community College. and ongoing education. both location and academics. Temple in Jerusalem in 165 BC. “I’m proud to announce the “MassBay has a long tradi- MassBay operates campuses After the Carter administration in 1980 acted like addition of MassBay to Bos- tion of providing affordable, in Wellesley, Framingham and the Obama administration today, the Washington ton’s Tuition-Free Community high-quality pathways to top- Ashland. MassBay also adds Post editorialized against Jimmy Carter stating, “It College Plan. We’re committed notch bachelor degree programs more available programs of cannot be denied that there is a pack and that it to increasing access to higher and meaningful careers,” said study, such as automotive hounds Israel shamelessly, and that this makes it education and providing more Dr. David Podell, president of technology, interior design, and very serious when the United States joins it.” The pathways to economic stability MassBay Community College. marketing. editorial was titled “Joining the Jackals.” for all of Boston’s students,” “We are thrilled to partner with Mayor Walsh announced said Mayor Walsh. “Now, with the city to increase college ac- the launch of the Tuition-Free (Continued on Page 8) an increase in location and pro- cess and expand options for Community College Plan last gram options, this plan opens the Boston students who need more doors for young people to it most.” (Continued on Page 11) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE HAS MOVED TO 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON This offi ce is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, JANUARY 6, 2017 Res Publica by David Trumbull The Sound of Music This column appears in the Trapp, although ethnically issue of the Post-Gazette of a German-Austrian, was an IMPERATOR JULIUS CAESAR January 6th, the Epiphany, or Italian citizen. He was born “Little Christmas,” marking the in the Dalmatian city of Zadar, The Roman calendar became particular. He was always a end of the Christmas season. which at that time was part of quite hopelessly confused after most enthusiastic collector of Appropriately, Mary and I the Austro-Hungarian Empire, much tampering by officials gems, carvings, paintings, and plan to spend the final days and later, after WWI, became for various reasons, such as exceptionally well-built slaves. of Christmastide in Vermont, part of Italy. prolonging their terms in offi ce, His invasion of Britain was done at the Trapp Family Lodge 4. All but Georg (who died in and to hasten or delay elec- in hopes of obtaining a fortune in Stowe, returning on Little 1947) were, or became, U.S. tions. Caesar consulted with the in pearls. Christmas. citizens. In 1944, Maria and Egyptian astronomer Sosigenes When in the provinces, he You undoubtedly know of her stepdaughters Johanna, to fi x the normal year at 365 usually gave banquets in two the Trapp Family from the Martina, Maria, Hedwig, days plus a leap year. This we dining rooms; one for his offi - 1965 movie adaption of the and Agathe applied for U.S. call the Julian calendar, and it cers or Greek companions, and 1959 Broadway musical, The citizenship. Their naturalization was in use until 1582 when the the other for Roman civilians Sound of Music, often shown papers are at the National Gregorian calendar corrected and distinguished provincials. on television around Christmas. Archive in Waltham, MA. To the error of eleven minutes and He managed his household Here’s some Sound of Music become U.S. citizens, they had fourteen seconds per year. very strictly, even putting his trivia you may not have known. to renounce their Austrian Julius Caesar reduced a baker in irons for serving him 1. It’s based on the real lives citizenship. Rosmarie and welfare list for grain hand- one kind of bread while guests of Georg Trapp, Maria, and their Eleonore derived citizenship outs from 320,000 to 150,000 were served an inferior quality. musical family, as recorded by from their mother. and established colonies for It is the general opinion that Maria in her 1949 book, The 5. The adult sons of Georg jobless Romans. Citizenship early kings of Rome. He was he had an eye for good-looking Story of the Trapp Family Trapp, Rupert and Werner, also was conferred on all foreign- given a raised couch in the women regardless of their mari- Singers. fought the Nazis, serving in the ers who practiced medicine in orchestra at the theater and tal or social status. It is particu- 2. While it is true, as the U.S. Army during World War Rome, and this offer was also a golden throne in the Senate larly interesting to note that two movie shows, that the Trapp II. They became U.S. citizens extended to teachers of the house. Lastly of course, the of his close female friends were family did flee Austria after while in the Army. Young son liberal arts. He placed new con- month of July was named after Servilia and Tertia, the mother Nazi German occupation, they Johannes was born in the trols on the payment of debts, him. and sister of Brutus. The top did not escape secretly over the United States and was a citizen increased penalties for crimes, He is said to have been quite of his list was reserved for at mountains to Switzerland. The in his own right. and administered justice with tall with a fair complexion, least two queens — Eunde, a world was not at war in 1938. 6. They sang for their supper. the utmost conscientiousness shapely limbs, full face, keen Moorish queen and, of course, They simply told their friends Baron von Trapp (strictly and strictness. He enforced black eyes, and excellent health. Cleopatra, with whom he often that they were going to America honorary title, as Austrian titles laws against extravagance and He was meticulous about the feasted until daybreak. to perform a concert. Austria of nobility were abolished after had agents penetrate public care of his person, always well At one time, there was consid- being land-locked, they took WWI) was not the wealthy man markets and dining rooms for trimmed and cleanly shaved. eration given to presenting a bill a train to Italy to get the ship portrayed in the fi lm. He lost compliance. He also made the He combed his hair forward to in the Senate making it lawful to England, and from there to nearly everything in the world- greatest possible libraries of hide a bald spot, and often used for Caesar to marry as many America.