VOL. 120 - NO. 19 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 6, 2016 $.35 A COPY Taste of the North End 2016 (Photos by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) Over 600 happy patrons at- not to have a great (and deli- help from their capable team — which included bestowing North End Waterfront Health, tended the 23rd Taste of the cious!) time. From pasta to pas- Zachary Goodale (Event Coordi- awards on Lt. Governor Karyn the Eliot School, St. John North End held at the Steriti try to wine, the only downside nator), Gianni Frattaroli, Daniel Polito (Taste of the North End School, North End Against Memorial Skating rink last Fri- was having only one stomach Leonard, Mary Wright, Maria Supporter) and John McGee Drugs, North End Athletic day night. With over 40 food and to fi ll! This annual community DeNapoli and Patrick Lyons — (restaurateur and North End Association, and the North End beverage vendors showcasing benefi t was hosted by founder and over 25 business sponsors. community activist) and presid- Music and Performing Arts (and donating) their best dishes Donato Frattaroli and NEW Billy Costa, host of NESN’s ing over a silent auction. Center. and products, it was impossible Health CEO James Luisi, with Dining Playbook, handled the All proceeds will benefi t North (Additional Photos on Master of Ceremony duties, End non-profits, including Pages 8 & 9) News Briefs Trump, Sanders Win Indiana by Sal Giarratani Cruz Says Adios to Race by Sal Giarratani She is Woman Weeks ago, after Ted Cruz likely will face Hillary Clinton, victory, Sanders said it was on upset Donald Trump in the aka “Third Obama Term.” to Philadelphia and he still sees Hear Her Roar Wisconsin primary, the lib- Over in the Democratic pri- a path to victory. Hillary hasn’t Hillary Clinton is truly running eral news media began calling mary, Hillary lost Indiana and done anywhere near as well as on the women’s card. The campaign Wisconsin the Waterloo for Bernie Sanders chalked up an- expected. Sanders is proving to is e-mailing supporters a chance to Trump. Catchy phrase, but other victory over the presumed get their own pink Woman Card. hardly accurate. Trump, after Democratic nominee. After the (Continued on Page 13) Can you imagine if President Obama, when running Tuesday night’s Indiana results, for offi ce, ever sent out small black cards telling sup- has now won 13 of the last 16 porters to support the Race Card. Hillary is proud to be primaries. a highly-qualifi ed candidate because she is a woman, Earlier this week, Cruz ap- and not just a woman, but the youngest woman ever Happy peared to be anything but on to run for president. Cruz control and actually re- Nothing worse than trying to trump Donald with the minded me of that character gender card, huh? Howard Beal from the movie Mother’s Day Easy Way to do it “Network.” You could tell that The White House says it will now declassify those 28 he knew he was at the doorway pages about the Saudis in the 9/11 Report. However, it of his own political Alamo. might take months to get all the signoffs, which many When the results of the In- think is far too slow. diana primary started coming New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin has a in, it was quickly seen as a big good idea, “Instead, just e-mail the pages to Hillary Trump victory. Donald Trump Clinton’s home-brew-server. Then China, Russia, and won 53 percent to Ted Cruz’s Edward Snowden can hack it and instantly make the 37 percent of the vote. Ted pages public.” saw the light and dropped out Rum-Fueled Monkey Terrorizes Bar of the race. Meanwhile, Ohio Monkeys just wanna have fun, but sometimes they Gov. 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The Republican estab- lishment will have to get behind One mother can take care of six children, Call 617-227-8929 for more information their man, because the real race but six children cannot take care of one mother. is in November when he most PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, MAY 6, 2016 Simple TIMES . by Girard A. Plante While writing my column for losses from the four-year Civil the fi rst May edition, I thought War totaled 650,000 men. about my wonderful mother. The woman largely respon- THE MAN OF ROME Every day she enters my mind sible for the official national Quadrata” by the ancient histo- since her passing on Janu- holiday of Mother’s Day on the rians because of its quadrangu- ary 24, 2011. She would be 96 second Sunday of every May lar shape. This enclosed space, on May 15th. So it’s fi tting that was Ann Reeves Jarvis. She wit- an area of about 24-acres, is with Mother’s Day a few days nessed the premature deaths of said to be where the Rome of away, I share with you thoughts babies caused by milk rot in the history begins. on an array of things that 1850s. So she called on mothers Contemporary with Romulus remind me of moms … to establish groups that began and his Palatine Hill was Tatius The sweet scent and purple strict oversight of milk process- the Sabine, whose tribe occu- colors of the lilac bushes in ing to prevent deaths of infants. pied the Capital Hill. the front yard at our family Once the Civil War struck, the In this location and to this home. Two catalpa trees that women helped injured Union period of time also belongs the covered the sidewalk and front and Confederate soldiers. story of the Sabine girls who yard in shade all summer long. To promote unity amongst were carried off after being invit- Bright yellow forsythia bushes a hurting nation, Jarvis cre- ed with their parents to attend that added still more color ated Mother’s Friendship Day some rustic games in the long until shedding its fl owers to soft gatherings in her home state valley between the Palatine and bright green leaves at April’s of West Virginia, where former the Aventine Hills (the site of the end through October. Rose combatants attended along with Circus Maximus) in an interval bushes dotted both front and sympathizers of the cause for of peace. A second peace treaty back yards. Brilliant splashes lasting peace. Upon her death between Romulus and Tatius of tulips found only in May. My in 1905, Jarvis’ daughter Anna was short-lived, and ended with mom planted all those. took on the effort and cre- the violent death of Tatius the May is also the annual rite ated the initial Mother’s Day on Sabine, followed shortly there- of college commencements May 10, 1908, in her hometown after by the death of Romulus and proms. The anticipation of Grafton, West Virginia. the Roman. As startling or of school letting out for a won- Anna’s tireless work to spread Faustulus (to the right of picture) discovers Romulus and strange as it may seem, Romu- drous three-month hiatus in Mother’s Day events across Remus with the she-wolf and woodpecker. Their mother lus was the fi rst and last Roman summer. Weddings are popular America prompted President Rhea Silvia and the river-god Tiberinus witness the moment. King of Rome. There were seven during this merry month of Woodrow Wilson in 1914 to for- Painting by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1616 (Capitoline Museums). kings during this fi rst histori- transition as spring moves to ever bestow the second Sunday cal period called Regal Rome. summer-like weather. in May to honor mothers. The history of ancient Rome of Rome and its fi rst king. In Romulus was the fi rst. The next The one big day honoring Historian Katherine Antolini is easily divided into three sepa- earlier years, people scoffed at three were the Sabines, Numa mothers is, of course, Mother’s of West Virginia Wesleyan rate and distinct periods. These the idea that a real Romulus Pompilius, Tullus Hostillus, and Day. Memorial Day, which ush- College said in a 2014 inter- were known as: did exist, but this indeed was Ancus Marcius. The last three ers in the offi cial start to sum- view, “It wasn’t to celebrate all 1. Regal Rome, the period the true name that belonged to were Etruscans named Lucius mer, honors America’s veterans mothers. It was to celebrate the of seven kings starting with an early builder of Rome. There Tarquinius Priscus, Servius dating back to the Civil War. best mother you’ve ever known Romulus in 750 B.C. and end- may or may not have been a Tullius, and Lucius Taraquinius Sadly, Mother’s Day is inter- — your mother — as a son or ing with Lucius Tarquinius she-wolf, but as to the exis- Superbus.