VOL. 119 - NO. 27 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JULY 3, 2015 $.35 A COPY 42nd Annual July 4th on the Esplanade Join Keith Lockhart and 8:00 pm — 99.5 WCRB the Boston Pops for the Classical Radio Boston 42nd annual Boston Pops broadcast begins Fireworks Spectacular. 8:30 pm — Concert begins Lockhart will be celebrating 10:30 pm — Fireworks his 20th year as conductor of begin the Pops and annual July 4th 11:00 pm — Boston Pops concert on the Esplanade. Fireworks Spectacular ends For 2015 Keith Lockhart *All dates/times subject to and the Boston Pops will be change joined by a line-up of per- Your arrival time depends formers including Broad- on where you want to sit and way’s Michael Cavanaugh; what you want to see. American Idol finalist Melinda THE OVAL – The best Doolittle; Boston-based quar- seats in the house. The right tet, The Sons of Serendip; side of the oval (facing the the Boston Crusaders Drum stage) is best for seeing the and Bugle Corps; gospel fireworks. singer and The Voice contes- Gates open at 9:00 am. tant Michelle Brooks- The line starts early. This Thompson; and the USO fills up quickly. Everyone Show Troupe. who’s admitted into the Oval Michael Cavanaugh is will receive a wristband the new voice of the Ameri- allowing access in and out of can Rock & Roll Songbook. A who, through a series of ser- more than 70years to its be- 5:00 pm — Gates open the secured area. Reserving charismatic performer, mu- endipitous events, came to- ginnings in the muddy camp 8:30 pm — Concert begins large areas in the Oval is sician and actor, he gained gether in graduate school at shows of the South Pacific. 10:00 pm — Concert ends prohibited. Access to the fame for his piano/lead vo- Boston University. The Boston Crusaders Saturday, July 4th checkpoint can best be cals in the Broadway musi- Michelle Brooks-Thomp- Drum & Bugle Corps, Concert & Fireworks accessed by entering from cal Movin’ Out. son is a Gospel recording art- founded in 1940, is the third- 9:00 am — Gates open Berkeley Street. Melinda Doolittle be- ist who was born in Boston, oldest junior drum and bugle 7:00 pm — WBZ NewsRadio THE ISLAND LAGOON – Is came a household name on MA. corps in the nation! 1030 AM broadcast begins a secured area. The Island season six of American Idol. The USO Show Troupe is SCHEDULE 8:00 pm — WBZ-TV Boston Lagoon checkpoints can best The Sons of Serendip is a part of an entertainment Friday, July 3rd Concert, Pops Fireworks Spectacular musical group of four friends tradition that goes back NO FIREWORKS broadcast begins (Continued on Page 15) Saint Padre Pio Procession in News Briefs by Sal Giarratani Boston’s North End by Matt Conti, www.northendwaterfront.com “Sniper” Widow Takes on Clinton Benghazi Response American Sniper widow Taya Kyle slammed Hillary Clinton’s shortcomings as a candidate, referencing her response in 2012 to the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans. Kyle has a book out herself, American Wife, and said she was appalled that Clinton had the audacity to sit and say people in America die every day. Kyle added, “It’s almost like the real world doesn’t apply to her anymore. It doesn’t affect her. She doesn’t care ... Maybe she just been in the system so long that she’s lost sight of it.” Brian Williams Gets Punished Ousted NBC Anchor Brian Williams has begun an apology tour, but still declines to say he lied. He now says his ego got the best of him when he told those stories about him- (Photo by Matt Conti, www.northendwaterfront.com) self which were wrong. He should have been fired, but NBC is pun- Honoring one of the newer Mass and walked through the (1887-1968) was a Capuchin ishing him, which at least is something. He saints, a group from St. neighborhood streets where Catholic priest from Italy, won’t be going back to NBC Nightly News, Leonard Church held the devotees pinned donations on born as Francesco Forgione instead he is headed for MSNBC. You know, fifth annual procession for ribbons. The procession was and given the name Pius the network that nobody watches. Saint Padre Pio on Sunday, accompanied by the North (Italian: Pio) when he joined June 28th in Boston’s North End Marching Band. the Capuchins, thus known (Continued on Page 13) End. The statue of St. Pio was St. Padre Pio was canon- popularly as Padre Pio. He carried from St. Leonard ized by Pope John Paul II in became famous for bearing Church after an Italian 2002. Pius of Pietrelcina the stigmata. 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, JULY 3, 2015 Res Publica by David Trumbull On Independence Day Remember the History of American Freedom and Equality THE LABORS OF HERCULES At ten o’clock on the morning of Saturday, July 4th, the The circumstances sur- with a barrage of burning Declaration of Independence will be read out to the rounding the birth of Her- arrows. As he grabbed the assembled people from the balcony of the Old State House cules, his early education, monster by one of its necks, just as it first was in Boston, 239 years ago on July 18, physical training, and the it immediately wound itself 1776. Yes, back in the Revolutionary (before E-mail) Period, series of events which led to around one leg of Hercules. it could take two weeks to get a document from Philadel- the imposition of his cel- The hero started hacking phia to Boston. ebrated “Labors” were dis- away at the heads with his The memorable words of the Declaration: cussed in a previous issue. sword, but soon found the We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are cre- Any reader who might won- immortal one invulnerable ated equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain der why newspaper space to his blows, while two other unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and is devoted to this Greek heads grew in place of each the Pursuit of Happiness, punctuate one scene in a sweep- demigod is reminded that that was lopped off. Adding ing drama of history going back thousands of years. Renaissance Rome honored to his problems, the crab Liberty and equality before law can be traced back to the his memory in many works now came out of the swamp Great Charter of England (Magna Carta), signed by King of art. Presently I can recall to bite at the foot of Her- John 800 years ago on June 15, 1215, which declared: a statue entitled “The cules. Realizing that he No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his Farnese Hercules” which is could not fight both adver- Antonio del Pollaiuolo’s rights or possessions except by the lawful judgment of his in the National Museum at saries alone, the strong equals or by the law of the land. Naples; a painting of Her- Hercules and the Hydra man called for Iolaus, his (c. 1475), Uffizi, Florence. And that medieval declaration of rights echoes an ear- cules killing the Hydra (his nephew and charioteer, who lier act in the drama of freedom. In the Institutes of the second labor) and another of Hercules stopped the charg- brought burning brands. Now Roman Emperor Justinian (A.D. 535), we read: Hercules crushing Antaeus, ing animal and strangled as soon as a head was The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure both in the Uffizi gallery in it with his bare hands. He severed, it was cauterized. no one, and to give every man his due. Freedom, from which Florence; and a statute of then slung the dead lion Repeating this procedure, men are called free, is a man’s natural power of doing what he Hercules slaying Cacus, a over his shoulder and went the duo dispatched the mon- pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law: Slavery cattle thief, in the Palazzo back to the city of Tiryns. ster, except for the immor- is an institution of the law of nations, against nature subject- Vecchio at Florence near The terrified king (author of tal head, which was severed ing one man to the dominion of another. the copy of Michelangelo’s the labors of Hercules) then and buried beneath a huge A thousand years earlier, Pericles (439 B.C.) said of Demo- David. decreed that any future tro- boulder. The body of the cratic Athens: The first ordeal imposed phies were to be displayed Hydra was slashed open and Our constitution favors the many instead of the few; this is upon Hercules was to kill outside the city gates. The the arrows of Hercules were why it is called a democracy. If we look to the laws, they afford the Nemean lion. This dead lion was not wanted by dipped into its deadly gall. equal justice to all. was not an ordinary beast, anyone, so Hercules skinned This is the deadly poison And our founding fathers, who threw off allegiance to King but one of monstrous pro- it and used the pelt as a which in future years caused George, must have agreed with the words of the Hebrew portions.