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VOL. 116 - NO. 24 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JUNE 15, 2012 $.30 A COPY Annual Bunker Hill Day Parade Happy Father’s Day Bunker Hill Day marks the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, also known as the Battle of Breed’s Hill, on June 17 each year. This battle, which occurred in 1775, was part of the Siege of Boston. This siege took place during the American Revolutionary War, which is also known as the American War of Independence. from Publisher, Pam Donnaruma and the Staff of the Post-Gazette News Briefs by Sal Giarratani Obama: No Hopey, No Changey to Economy When it comes to our economy, all the hope Paul Revere House Circa 1903 and change stuff has produced very little change but continued hope that things will improve even though Obamanomics remains a failed policy. Of course, it isn’t his fault, right? President George W. Bush is still responsible for today’s mess. How long is the statute of limitations on blaming George W. for 2012? Here we are heading toward re-election time and neither the White House nor the lapdogs in the liberal media hold Barack Obama responsible for anything negative. It’s as if the Bush Legacy has been taken hostage by the Obama-ites and used as a drape to cover Obama’s southern exterior. On June 1, the president stated the obvious. The latest employment numbers show that the economy is not creating jobs “as fast as we want,” but pledged the economy will improve. Speaking at a Honeywell plant in Minnesota, he added, “We do have better days ahead.” May figures show only 69,000 jobs were added during the month and the unemployment number increased to 8.2 percent. Of course, this is the official gov- ernment figure but the actually living and breathing U.S. citizens out of work is about 15 percent or 88 million Americans. Also on June 1 at a fundraiser in Minnesota after his afternoon photo op, he added that today is “as tough a pe- riod in our country’s history as anything in our lifetimes, certainly since the 1930s.” He believes progress has been made but “we’re not out of the John Papandrea (gentlemen wearing vest) was born in Greece in 1875 and died in (Continued on Page 8) 1957. John sold fruits and vegetables in front of the Paul Revere House in 1903 at the age of 28. He was the son of Andrea Papandrea, who was the Prime Minister of Greece. John was married to Carmela and they had five children. 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, JUNE 15, 2012 Res Publica by David Trumbull The Last Hope of Mankind Last week I discussed the populace at the time of THE DINNER OF TRIMALCHIO first half of Daniel Webster’s our Revolution. Americans, First Bunker Hill Oration; while under the authority of Throughout all of early final. Jealous rivals large green and black olives. here, in time for Bunker Hill the mother country, had, Roman history there were succeeded in having him The donkey supported silver Day, is the rest. nevertheless, many years’ mostly temperate men, falsely accused of plotting dishes which were engraved After his brief summary of experience of self-govern- moderate in all of their in- treason against Nero and with the name of Trimalchio the history of America, from ment as regards internal dulgences including their he was condemned to death. and also the weight of silver Christopher Columbus to matters and were accus- appetites for food and drink. He cheated the executioner in each dish so that guests the Battle of Bunker Hill, tomed to some of the basic These were the persons by committing suicide in a could estimate their value our guide, Daniel Webster, elements of our Constitu- who were satisfied with slow and graceful manner. and the host’s wealth. The next surveys the fifty years tion: representative bodies, their coarse breads, the He opened up his veins and dishes contained dormice since the battle and finds division of power and checks normal vegetables, fowl, then applied bandages to (squirrel-like rodents) sea- progress both in America and and balances. He credits the cheese, fruits and local check the flow of blood as he soned with honey and poppy abroad although not at the character of the American wines. Invited guests were chatted with friends until seeds. The edible European same pace, which he com- people — sober, moral and also treated to moderate death came. He is credited variety is consumed when pares to “vessels on a com- religious — for the restraint meals, served and eaten with being the author of a plump, just before hiberna- mon tide, propelled by the from plunder and spoil that under moderate conditions. remarkable literary work, tion. Next came hot sau- gales at different rates, ac- might otherwise have at- There were also those few part of which describes a sages lying on a silver grill. cording to their several tended our Revolution. who attempted to impress famous dinner. It was a Underneath the grill were structure and management, Webster exhorts Ameri- their friends by a show of detailed account of a sump- black prunes with red pome- but all moved forward by one cans to exult in the convic- wealth which was ridicu- tuous banquet provided by granate seeds to simulated mighty current, strong tion that our Revolution was lous, absurd and vulgar. “Trimalchio,” a boastful, pre- a charcoal fire. enough to bear onward what- a beneficial example to the There can be no discus- tentious and ignorant re- While musicians played, ever does not sink beneath world. It is, however, an ex- sion of lavish Roman din- cipient of newly acquired slaves entered bearing a it.” Knowledge, he says, has ample that he would not nec- ners without making refer- wealth. great dish which contained triumphed and mankind in essarily apply as a template. ence to a story of the “Din- The story tells of the invited a wooden hen hatching large 1825 are “better fed and bet- “We are not propagandists,” ner of Trimalchio” and to its’ guests to the domus of eggs. One egg was passed to ter clothed ... they are able he says. “Wherever other author “Gaius Petronius”. Trimalchio being met at the each of the guests who soon also to enjoy more leisure; systems are preferred ... we Petronius was the “Arbiter door by slaves who accompa- discovered that the shells they possess more refine- leave the preference to be Eleganatiarum” or probably nied them to the bath house were actually cooked flour ment and more self-respect. enjoyed.” However, given the much better described as the where they were offered pre- and each contained a fat A superior tone of education, favorable circumstances of Director-In-Chief of the im- cious vases containing wa- “baccafico” rolled in spiced manners and habits pre- America’s experiment in perial pleasures at the ter in order to wash their egg yolk (a baccafico is a vail.” More importantly, he democratic government he court of Nero and one of the hands. They were then European songbird usually finds those past fifty years to concludes that if the repre- emperor’s chosen compan- shown into the tricilinium fattened on fruit and grain have been given over to “the sentative system fails here, ions. He enjoyed an exalted (dining room) where they in autumn). At this time, great question of politics and it is unlikely to ever suc- position during much of were directed to their places one of the serving slaves government.” ceed. With America, he as- Nero’s reign. Petronius and reclined on a sofa before dropped a silver platter and “A great wheel of political serts, rests “the last hope of passed judgment on the mer- a magnificently arranged because it had a slight dent, revolution,” says Webster, mankind.” This is a phrase its of any proposed national display of hors d’oeuvres. the host had it thrown onto “began to move in America.” that will be echoed by game, feast, enjoyment or Later, waiters brought in a a rubbish heap. He compares the guarded Abraham Lincoln in his pleasure in any way, shape bronze donkey carrying two NEXT WEEK: The Dinner regularity and safety of that December 1862 Annual Mes- or form and his decision was panniers (baskets) filled with of Trimelchio — Cont. wheel’s rotation in America sage to Congress (“the last with its irregular and violent best, hope of earth”) and impulses elsewhere and con- Ronald Reagan in his Janu- cludes that America was for- ary 1974 “We Will Be a City LaMattina Running for Suffolk Register of Probate tunate in the condition of the on a Hill” speech (“the last by Sal Giarratani land and character of the best hope of man on earth”). Boston City Councilor Sal to run for the vacant Suffolk LaMattina was elected Register of Probate and Fam- District One’s councilor ily Court post. Suffolk County NOBILE INSURANCE back in a nail-biting elec- covers Boston, Chelsea, tion in June 2006. He eked Winthrop and Revere. It is ALBANO F. 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