VOL. 121 - NO. 25 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JUNE 23, 2017 $.35 A COPY Tall Ships at Sail Boston 2017 by Matt Conti For the fi rst time since 2000, a full Tall Ships regatta re- turned to Boston Harbor. On Saturday, June 17th, over 50 majestic ships from around the world arrived in a Grand Parade of Sail. The parade kicked-off fi ve days of nautical festivities with many opportunities for public boarding. Sail Boston 2017 is part of the Rendez- Vous 2017 Tall Ships Regatta, a transatlantic race organized by Sail Training International. The regatta commenced in the UK on April 13th, raced to Portugal, then to Bermuda, and is now in Boston. In Boston, the European, South American, and North American fl eets will congregate before sailing en masse to Quebec for Canada’s National 150th Celebration. The morning arrival started out a little foggy and overcast, but gradually cleared up for the Grand Parade of Sail. (Photo by Matt Conti, NorthEndWaterfront.com) Tall Ships 2017: Ecuadorian Sailors up high on the sails of BAE Guayas with USA Pride of Baltimore on the right. News Briefs City Offi cials Break Ground on by Sal Giarratani Major Renovation of Eliot Upper School What’s the Big Deal Over Project to Bring 21st Century Learning Spaces “Julius Caesar?” Conservatives on talk radio have been all over to Expansion of North End School how down in New York City, a production of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar has caused an uproar against the Never Trump Media. Folks down in Central Park are now watching the play as part of the Shakespeare in the Park series showing Julius Caesar dressed like President Trump, eventually getting murdered by a bunch of women and minorities stabbing him to death. These critics, like our own Jeff Kuhner on WRKO, believe what has been done is both a misuse of Shakespeare and also too violently against Trump and feeding into more outrage. Criticism picked up even more after that guy starting shooting up Republicans at the baseball practice in Virginia. Eliot School building sketch. However, people seems to have forgotten that Mayor Martin J. Walsh joined will bring the Eliot School into the North End. The two-year Shakespeare’s character of Julius Caesar was never students and City and Boston the 21st century, and create the construction project — the fi nal really about Caesar, but more about the British Public Schools offi cials on Tues- best learning environment for phase of an overall $43-million monarchy in his own time. Caesar was always a day, June 20th, in a ground- our students. The Eliot School project to two Eliot school build- metaphor, and the fact that someone today turned breaking ceremony to launch represents the $1 billion we’re ings — will begin in early July. the old emperor into Trump may be in bad taste and the $20-million renovation of investing in BPS buildings over Starting in September, the uncivil, but it is hardly outrageous. the John Eliot K-8 Innovation ten years throughout Boston, Eliot Upper School’s students Don’t defend Shakespeare’s motives if you don’t Upper School building. When and I’m proud that as a City, will be relocated to the newly even know them. completed in fall 2019, the we’re making investments that renovated, former North Ben- Remembering Adam West school will feature state-of-the- will allow students to achieve net Street School. Boston has Actor Adam West recently passed away in his sleep art spaces designed to promote their full potential.” invested $23 million in a com- at age 88. West played many roles in his long TV show collaborative learning, as well This project is part of Mayor prehensive renovation to the history. However, what he is most remembered for, as an art studio and robotics- Walsh’s $2.08 billion fi scal year North Bennet Street School of course, is Batman to generations of American TV engineering lab overlooking the 2018-2022 Imagine Boston that includes new classrooms, viewers. His corny role as Batman made him famous Charles River. Capital Plan, which supports computer labs, a multi-purpose forever. As if he never played anyone but Batman in “We know that Boston Public initiatives such as BuildBPS. room, and media center all de- his long acting career. Before Batman came along School students deserve the The Eliot Upper School, signed for 21st century learning. back in the mid-Sixties, he actually played serious best, and this investment is a which serves 280 students In addition, the project included (Continued on Page 14) testament to how we value pub- in grades 3-8, is located in a construction of a new cafeteria, lic education in Boston,” said 42,000-square-foot building Mayor Walsh. “This new space at 585 Commercial Street in (Continued on Page 13) 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, JUNE 23, 2017 Res Publica by David Trumbull Trade Must Benefi t People, Not Just Markets I entered the world of in- human development in their re- ternational trade in 1994, spective societies. The version CLAUDIUS’ OLD ROMAN MUSIC the fi rst year that the North of NAFTA signed into law by American Free Trade Agree- President Bill Clinton on Decem- to 600 persons at one meal. Be- ment went into effect, having ber 8, 1993, left many of our cause of the enormous amount a huge effect on my industry, concerns unaddressed.” of food that was consumed, textiles. NAFTA was one of the The bishops go on to ad- which of course was done in earliest U.S. free trade agree- dress briefl y, but broadly, sev- the reclining position, there ments (third, after the one eral areas of concern, without was more than just a casual with Israel in 1985, and the making specifi c policy recom- concern for the inevitable fl atu- 1989 agreement with Canada mendations. I hope President lence (stomach gas). With most which in 1994 was rolled into Trump will give serious evalua- eastern cultures as well as with NAFTA). Since NAFTA, the U.S. tion to the bishops’ recommen- the Romans, the good old after has implemented 12 more free dations. I have reason to be- dinner belch was considered trade agreements with 17 na- lieve he will. Speaking recently polite and a compliment to the tions. We learned from NAFTA, at a Faith and Freedom Coali- host. Even the most learned both the good and bad, and in- tion gathering, the President felt that the greatest wisdom corporated the NAFTA experi- said: “Your voices will resound ence into the later agreements. across the halls of our Capitol, was to follow these dictates of Meanwhile, NAFTA did not and across the world. We re- nature. Claudius supported this change in any substantial way. cite today the words of Isaiah philosophy to the extent that he Some things in NAFTA have Chapter 1, Verse 17: ‘Learn to came very close to enacting a worked well, but other provi- do right; seek justice. Defend law permitting any emission of sions have harmed American the oppressed. Take up the Not unlike his predecessors, on unsupported charges, and wind in public places. Doctors business and workers. cause of the fatherless; plead and commonly a characteristic gave them no opportunity for suggested to their patients that As candidate, Donald Trump the case of the widow.’” going hand-in-hand with impe- defense. He did likewise to they take full advantage of the said he would pull the U.S. out rial power, was Claudius’ brutal his son-in-law Pompeius and attitudes and liberties favored of NAFTA unless the problems attitude toward persons of lower also the fi ancé of his youngest by this well-meaning but effer- with the agreement could be cor- LEGAL NOTICE rank. In time, he developed a very daughter. He is reported to have vescent emperor and just throw rected. He is keeping his word! Commonwealth of Massachusetts cruel and bloodthirsty disposi- sentenced to death more than caution to the winds. As I sit He has notifi ed Canada and The Trial Court tion. Criminal witnesses were 35 senators and 300 Roman here before my trusty Under- Mexico that it’s time we sit down Probate and Family Court always examined by torture, knights with easy indifference. wood upright, I can’t help but and renegotiate the agreement. Middlesex Division He asked for public comments. 208 Cambridge Street and during gladiatorial shows he Claudius was also notorious wonder what the “sound of old East Cambridge, MA 02141 gave orders that even those who for his timidity and suspicion. Roman music” must have been He got comments! Thousands (617) 768-5800 accidentally fell should be slain. He never attended a banquet like with 500 or 600 banqueting of them! You can read them at Docket No. MI17P2934EA www.regulati ons.gov (search for He liked to watch the faces of without his guard and personal and contributing guests. Estate of “USTR-2017-0006”). persons who were being tortured servants. The entourage includ- Claudius had an almost in- EULETA COURAGE JOHNSON As I went through the com- Also Known As or were dying. ed at least one offi cial taster.