Taste of the North End 2019 by Matt Conti, Northendwaterfront.Com
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
VOL. 123 - NO. 18 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 3, 2019 $.35 A COPY Taste of the North End 2019 by Matt Conti, NorthEndWaterfront.com (Photos by Matt Conti, NorthEndWaterfront.com) Continuing a longstanding and hundreds of festival-goers Boston’s North End. Joining Edwards. Former City Councilor presented to longtime Taste of neighborhood tradition, the for a night of food and charity the crowd were Congressman Sal LaMattina was also on the North End supporters, The 26th Annual Taste of the North on Friday, April 26th at the Stephen Lynch, Governor hand with event organizers Picariello Family, owners of End brought top elected offi cials Steriti Memorial Ice Rink in Charlie Baker, Mayor Marty Donato Frattaroli of Il Molo Hanover Street’s iconic bakery, Walsh and local elected offi cials and James Luisistrong, CEO Modern Pastry. Receiving the including State Senator Joe of NEW Health co-chaired 2019 TONE Supporter Award Boncore, State Rep. Aaron the event. This year’s 2019 was Britain W. Nicholson, M.D. News Briefs Michlewitz, City Councilor Lydia “Restauranteur Award” was at Mass. General Hospital. by Sal Giarratani (Additional Photos Pages 6 & 7) I Don’t Think It’s A Good Idea The Florida Senate is on the verge of allowing some public school teachers to carry fi rearms in the class- NEWMA 2019 Egg Hunt room. The bill seeks to change a law enacted last year by Rebecca Griffi n in reaction to the violence at Parkland High School where a gunman killed 17 students. Right now, only teachers who have a role outside the classroom, such as a coach, can participate. The vote was 27-17 with all but one Republican in favor and all Democrats opposed. I don’t like the idea because it seems just another feel-good bill that could actually backfi re. I remember a few years back in Austin, I read a let- ter to the editor proposing that fans should be allowed to carry at games to protect themselves against some crazy shooter in the stands. Bad idea having everyone shooting at a shooter in a crowd of 50,000 fans! We need to propose sensible laws not cowboys with a six-shooter. Bernie Sanders Says Let Marathon Bomber Vote Too Bernie Sanders said during a CNN Town Hall meeting how precious the right to vote is to all Americans and I agree with that. However, he went further down the gang plank than I want to go. He actually stated that even Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombers, should not lose his right to vote over what he did. The last people I want (Photo by Matt Conti, NorthEndWaterfront.com) to see in a voting precinct is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, or anyone else who commits murderous actions of It was so lovely to see so many grandparents came out for a and Northendboston.com for terrorism. of you — the older egg hiders lovely lovely time! sponsoring, thank you to the When I was younger I used to like lots of things that did a fantastic job, the younger Thank you to Boston Friends of Christopher Norman Thomas campaigned on. When I was a college hunters did a fabulous job, the Community Collaborative Columbus Park for hosting student, I read Michael Harrington’s The Other America. Hauck family (former owners for coordinating and spon- and stuffi ng. Their brand of socialism was a far-cry of today’s Bernie of the Living Room) brought soring. Thank you to The Thank you to everyone who Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. cookies and coffee, the kids Haucks (The Living Room), came and made this year’s egg (Continued on Page 10) and parents and nannies and Northendwaterfront.com, hunt so great. (Additional Photos on Page 3) 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, MAY 3, 2019 Saint Benedict the Moor by Bennett Molinari and Richard Molinari Benedict was born in 1526, near Messina, Sicily. His par- ents were Cristoforo and Diana Manasseri, Africans who were taken as slaves in the early 16th century. Benedict’s parents were THE SCIPIONIC CIRCLE granted freedom for their son We continue with our brief to Rome as a slave from Libya. before his birth because of biography of the literary Latins His owner, Ternetius Lucanus, their “loyal service.” Like most and the “Early Age” or “Age of was impressed by his natural peasants at that time, Benedict Greek Infl uence.” Last week, we literary gifts, had him educated, did not attend any school and discussed Andronicus Livius, and later gave him his freedom. was illiterate. During his youth, the founder of Roman dramatic After writing six success- he worked as a shepherd and and epic poetry. This week ful comedies, Terence visited was quick to give what he had the concentration is on the Greece in order to study Greek earned to the poor, he was famous Scipionic Circle. First, life and institutions, so that known for his mild demeanor of course, there was Scipio he could represent them accu- and his humble spirit himself. When researching this rately on the Roman stage. Benedict became a solitary, neither read nor write. After great Roman it soon becomes He died in a shipwreck at sea eventually settling with other serving as superior, he became evident that he is number 15 in on his return trip from Greece hermits at Montepellegrino. a novice master but asked to be a line of about 32 Scipios. Our and we are told that 108 trans- He was made superior of the relieved of his post and returned famous Scipio of the moment lations of Greek comedies per- community, but when he was to his former position as cook. Polybius is properly called P. Cornelius ished with him. In his comedies, about thirty-eight, Pope Pius His holiness and his fame as Scipio Aemilianus Minor or Polybius was placed in charge of Terence took his adopted Latin IV disbanded communities a confessor spread throughout Scipio the Younger. He became organizing the new government language and made it more of solitaries and he became Sicily bringing hordes of visitors a student of literature rather in the Greek cities and it was artistic by carefully shaping it a Franciscan lay brother. He to see the obscure and humble than a literarian. He was a great here that he gained the high- to the graceful rhythm and dic- cooked at St. Mary’s monastery cook. His reputation for sanc- army general and served with est recognition for himself. His tion of the Greek dramatists. near Palermo. He was appointed tity and miracles soon spread distinction in Spain, destroyed later years were spent in travel His work has been studied and against his will, superior of the throughout Sicily. He was a very Carthage, then reduced Africa and writing. He wrote at least praised by succeeding masters monastery though he could humble man who would some- to the form of a Roman prov- 40 books which recorded the who agree that dramatic litera- times travel at night to avoid ince, in addition to a distin- rise of Roman supremacy, its ture in general is indebted to being recognized. Throughout guished career as a Roman efforts toward worldwide domi- Terence, who has left a marked LEGAL NOTICE his life, he endured most of the Consul. This Scipio was also a nation, its consolidation, and its infl uence on the style of later austerities of his hermit years, Commonwealth of Massachusetts brilliant orator and patron of defenses against overthrow. His years. The Trial Court always keeping seven Lents the arts who gathered around record of occurrences is clear, Our last Circle member is Middlesex Probate and Family Court per year. him a group of statesmen, phi- sound, truthful, and is ranked Gaius Lucilius who was the 208 Cambridge Street Benedict passed away at the Cambridge, MA 02141 losophers, poets, historians, with the greatest of historical creator of Roman satire. He (617) 768-5800 age of 63, he was cheered on his and playwrights. The group writings. was born of a good family, Docket No. MI18P2661EA deathbed by a vision of Saint soon became known as the Panaetius of Rhodes was one served under Scipio in the Estate of Ursula. Scipionic Circle and included of the greatest stoic philosophers Spanish campaign and became ELIZABETH G. SHUTER He was canonized in 1589 men like Polybius, Panaetius, of his time. Stoic philosophy, as his friend. He developed the Date of Death: May 2, 2018 by Pipe Pius VII. and chosen Terence, and Lucillius. we know, is that which teaches satirical form in which it is later CITATION ON PETITION FOR patron saint of African mis- Polybius was one of the most of a divine power and its control found in Horace and Juvenal. SUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION sions; African Americans; black important Greek historians. over all happenings and destiny. He wrote 30 books of satires, To all interested persons: missions; black people; Palermo He was born at Megalopolis It also teaches to calmly accept but only about 300 lines are A Petition has been fi led by Robert C. and San Fratello; Sicily. The O’Loughlin of Lakewood, CO requesting that and received early instruction these happenings. Panaetius preserved in fragmentary form, the Court enter a Decree and Order that the Feast Day of Saint Benedict the in military and political affairs.