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Boston remembers the 37,000

If you look at it on paper,the number 37,000 may nothave a big impact on how youthink about Memorial Day.

That’s why the Massachu-setts Military Heroes Fundstarted planting flags nineyears ago representing themore than 37,000 members ofthe military from Massachu-setts who died in combat sincethe Revolutionary War.

Massachusetts MilitaryHeroes Executive DirectorDiane Nealon said it wasamazing to see on Monday,when the weather was not sogreat, that it was amazing tosee thousands of Massachu-setts residents and touristsfrom around the globe come

Thousands came out over the weekend to see the 37,268 flags placed in memory of every soldier fromMassachusetts felled in the line of duty since the Revolutionary war. Organizers stayed on throughoutthe weekend to mind the flags and answer questions for residents.

PHOTO BY JEFF SULLIVAN

Hundreds came out last week for the dedication ceremony after theflag garden was planted.

PHOTO COURTESY CITY OF BOSTON MAYOR'S OFFICE

Jeff SullivanJeff SullivanJeff SullivanJeff SullivanJeff SullivanStaff Reporter

out to honor the Fallen.“The turnout has been re-

markable, we see such tremen-dous support and we’re grate-ful,” she said.

Nealon said the idea for theflag garden came to themwhen they were talking with

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City Realty grilledover neighborhood

The audience at the City Realty hearing. Josh Fetterman of City Realtyis at far left. PHOTO BY: RICHARD HEATH

Richard HeathRichard HeathRichard HeathRichard HeathRichard HeathStaff Reporter

The Egleston Square Neigh-borhood Association (ESNA)convened a hearing on May 23to discuss what it called “theover-all plans of City Realty andthe impact on our neighbor-hood”.

City Realty had set up avideo camera to record themeeting at the Brookside

Neighborhood Health Centerand it caused an instant ruckus.

City Life videotapes mostdevelopment meetings. AlexPonte-Capella,a community or-ganizer for City Life, objectedalong with several others in theaudience. “I’m uncomfortablewith you videotaping and re-cording this,”he said.

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Council wants to makemore land available


Last week, District 1 CityCouncilor Lydia Edwards putforth a hearing order to discussthe way the city deals with fore-closed properties and those in re-ceivership.

Basically, Edwards sad thatthey have been working withresidents to try to stop as manyforeclosures as possible with a

recent ordinance to allow certainresidents to pay their taxes in in-stallments, but she said still some-times some properties have to beforeclosed upon, and the processbehind the disposition of that landis what she wants to look at.

“This deals with now thehouse is foreclosed upon and thecity has it,” she said. “I wantedto make sure that when it comes

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Roslindale Farmers Marketreturning to the outdoors


The Roslindale FarmersMarket is returning to AdamsPark this Saturday starting at9 a.m. and, while many favor-ites are returning to this neigh-borhood mainstay, RoslindaleVillage Main Streets (RVMS)has added some new blood tothe much-loved event.

RVMS Executive DirectorAlia Hamada Forrest said that,this year, they will be closingoff Birch Street to vehiculartraffic so as to create a morepublic street market atmo-sphere.

“The purpose of that streetbeing closed is to create a veryrelaxed setting to support thebusinesses,” she said. “Therewill be eating, some lawngames, and some of the busi-nesses will have special eventsgoing on. Solara is going to havemimosas, which is very cool,and other businesses are doingspecial events as well.”

Forrest said that, while itmay not as big as NewburyStreet, she hopes the idea willtake off in Roslindale. She saidthis is the pilot program for it,and that they may do it moreoften in the future. She said theoriginal pilot program will gofor four weeks.

“We’ll see how these first

four street closings go,” shesaid. “This is the first time, andwe’ll see if it is worth doing itmore consistently. It does takea lot of effort on our part to doall the permitting with the city,so doing four in a row is a realsuccess. Birch is a much easierstreet to close than Poplar, likewe did before. It caused ahuge backup of traffic onWashington Street and wedon’t to do that again. We wantit to be less of a parking lot andmore of a place for people tohang out. That’s a request ofthe businesses on that streetbecause it compliments theirbusiness, and instead of goingto the courtyard area which sreally reserved for the restau-rant you can sit on the street,we’ll have giant lawn chairsconnect four.”

Forrest said in the futurethey hope to have a beer gar-

den once Distraction Brewinggets up and running, and if thepilot goes well.

The one thing it’s missing isa beer garden, so we’re reallyexcited about Distraction open-ing because that’s where I seeBirch Street going,” she said.

Forrest said that this yearthey will also have more livemusic, with a band on BirchStreet as well as OppositePeople playing at Adams Park.

“They’re a mix of funk andAfro rock,” she said. “Therewill also be a Kung Fu demon-stration from YMAA’s kids, andI think people really love that itgets all the parents out to watchthem perform; the kids reallyprep for it and it’s their big dayand they’re right up the streetnow I think that’s a specialoccasion too that they movedto the middle of the square.”

Forrest said one new ven-dor has her particularly excited.

“I think for me personallyit’s exciting for me that WildPop, which is a popsicle ven-dor, is coming,” said Forrest.“They’re right up Washingtonin Egleston Square, and this istheir first summer with us.They have crazy flavors likeavocado, corn, mango, and Ithink they have a spicy pine-apple popsicle. That’s the oneI’m most excited about.”

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And your favorite summer song is . . .Ordinarily I don’t like hear-

ing songs out of season. JudyGarland’s upbeat “Easter Pa-rade” is not on my figurativeplay list during the fall, andCheryl Wheeler’s plaintive“When Fall Comes to New En-gland” is not to be relished inApril.

My annual lament aboutChristmas carols in Novemberis ignored by radio stations, butnote, strangely enough, that thefive major “Christmas” songsnot actually mentioning Santa/Christmas——“Frosty theSnowman” “Sleigh Ride,”“Jingle Bells,” “Let It Snow,”and “Winter Wonderland”——are not played after December25, even during raging blizzards. (Yes, I am aware that themelody of “Greensleeves” isnot solely relegated to Decem-ber in terms of the Xmas carol,“What Child Is This?” Theformer predates the latter by afistful of years.)

So it came as a surprisewhen a favorite radio an-nouncer of mine played thetouching “(I want to thank you

for giving me the most) Won-derful Summer” (of my life)” inMarch no less. Usually I havenothing against this song or anyother summer song beingplayed from May to Septemberinclusive. The irony about thishit by Robin Ward in 1963 is thatit climbed to number 13 in thecharts in November. Either therelease date was late or theclimbing was very slow.

Hmmm. Now that summer is unoffi-

cially here, and it matters lessthat the dozens of our local tele-vision meteorologists, fawningover their multicolored maps,pontificate about June 21 beingthe astronomical beginning ofsummer. To most of us ourshort New England season be-gins on the Memorial Day (for-merly Decoration Day) week-end in spite of the fact that ourbeaches are in disarray from thespring storms and the kids arein school for several moreweeks. Truly summer has ar-rived, with its beach attire, sunscreen, and music.

Bob Branca, the area’s best-known musicologist because ofhis mammoth vinyl collectionand extensive knowledge ofRock/Pop, was queried aboutthe names of summer songsother than those recorded byThe Beach Boys as well as Janand Dean. Without blinking heanswered with perhaps the mostpopular summer song ever, Nat

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Team Coordinator Kerry Ann Shea (center), accepts a $10,000 grant from Teamsters Local 25 AutismFund board directors, from left, Tom Mari, Sean O’Brien, Trish DiSilva and Liam Fitzgerald.

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Teamsters Local 25 presi-dent Sean O’Brien last Thurs-day, May 3, presented morethan $275,000 to 12 local au-tism non-profits, including a$10,000 donation to the JasonRoberts Challenger League, abaseball league that allowschildren with a disability to en-joy America’s pastime.

“Local 25 is proud to haveraised more than $4-million inthe last eleven years for local,regional and national autismorganizations,” said O’Brien.“The coaches and volunteersthat run the Jason RobertsChallenger League provide afun and worthwhile experi-ences for the players and their

families. We are honored tocontinue to support BillHubbard’s longtime commit-ment to this league.”

In addition to the Jason Rob-erts Challenger League, Local25 recognized 11 othernonprofits for their work withpeople with autism: AutismSpeaks, Boston Higashi School,Braintree American ChallengerLeague, The Mark FidrychFoundation, Malden ChallengerLeague, McLean Hospital Au-tism Program, Medford Invita-tional Tournament, NorfolkCounty Sheriff’s Youth Leader-ship Academy, Special TowniesOrganization, Stoneham Light ItUp Blue, and Technology for

Autism Now.In its 11th year, the Team-

sters Local 25 Autism Fundhas donated more than $4 mil-lion since its inception. Itsmajor fundraiser is the annualTeamsters Local 25 Light upthe Night Gala, which tookplace this year on April 21. TheGala serves as a major autismawareness vehicle as well asa critical fundraiser for localprograms that help children,teens and adults with autismor developmental delays.

To learn more about Team-sters Local 25’s commitmentto autism, please visitwww.teamsterslocal25autism.com.

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It has not been a good year for State Troopers, and it willlikely continue to be that way for weeks to come thanks tosome blatant nose thumbing by both its rank and file and lead-ership.

Back in March, as you may recall, officers were caughtclaiming overtime pay for shifts they did not actually work.That unit was subsequently disbanded and state cruiser GPSunits were later activated.

A month later the news cycle was again kick-started withconcerns expressed by Gov. Charlie Baker upon reports thatTroop F, the unit that patrols Logan Airport and Boston’s Sea-port, had neglected for years to release required pay and over-time data to the state Comptroller.

As if all this wasn’t bad enough, the State Police havecontinued their ill-advised, ongoing battle against the City ofBoston over who patrols the burgeoning Seaport District.

Earlier this month, the Boston City Council held a hearingwith the Boston Police Department regarding the turf battle.Good, you might say, maybe everyone can get together andwork things out.

Nahhhhhhh. Representatives from the MassachusettsState Police and the Massachusetts Port Authority decidedthat the Council, and by extension all of us, were not worththeir effort.

“I find it disrespectful that the people who were calledupon did not contact us in any way, shape or form personally,but they called out staff and said they couldn’t make it andsaid they’d send staffers,” said District 5 City Councilor TimMcCarthy, as quoted by the Bulletin.

Under existing legislation dating back about a decade theState Police have held jurisdiction over the Seaport, severelylimiting what local officers can do in the region, removingtheir ability to patrol the area and forcing a trooper to ac-company BPD officers to court if any matter they were in-volved in wound its way before a judge.

The City Council hearing was regarding a pending billbefore the state legislature to allow concurrent jurisdiction.The BPD would be equal to the State Police and MassportPolice.

According the this newspaper’s coverage of the hearing:“BPD Commissioner William Evans said his department

has [suffered] headache after headache trying to fix the situ-ation. ‘Obviously, this isn’t a new issue,’ he said. ‘I knowover the last 10 years, we’ve been fighting this issue up inthe state legislature and I’ve been adamant about getting theright police agency down there to police a Boston city neigh-borhood.’”

Evans said it was “frustrating” that residents in that par-ticular neighborhood do not benefit from having one of the“top community policing agencies in the country.”

The solution to this problem should be easy. Co-jurisdic-tion is a sensible plan that gives residents and businesses thebest of both worlds.

If, however, the State Police still find that suggestion de-meaning, then too bad. The city should fight for its ability topolice this emerging neighborhood.

Today’s Seaport shares little with the sprawling industrialzone it was until just a few years ago. This is a differentneighborhood, and these are different times. Given recentscandals, we can only hope that the iron-grip on neighbor-hood policing isn’t using the Seaport as just another honeypot of no-questions-asked overtime pay.

This ridiculous battle with the City needs to end; and endnow. Given the virtual middle finger flipped our way by ig-noring the request to speak before the Council, the situationis even more of a personal affront.


A day of remembrance in Hyde ParkTTTTTrenese Hallrenese Hallrenese Hallrenese Hallrenese Hall

Staff Reporter

American Legion Fogg-Rob-ert Post 78 held a memorial ser-vice on May 28 which startedwith a flag service held at Post78’s American Legion on 56Harvard Ave. in Hyde Park.The weather was not ideal, butthe little bit of rain did not stopresidents and attendees fromcoming out and showing theirsupport and admiration for thenation’s fallen heroes on Memo-rial Day.

Phylis Kolostow, a residentof Hyde park, has been comingto the memorial dayremembrance’s held by Fogg-Robert Post 78 for over 60years. “I’ve been a member forabout 60 years, I look forwardto the mass and am very happythat I am here,” she said as wewere walking in the misty rainin front of the Post.

The flag service held at thePost was a service that com-memorated lost members andawarded other members fortheir hand in making Fogg-Rob-ert Post 78 successful. Mem-bers that were awarded wereCheryl Atkins and Mounir andLaura Akiki. Atkins receivedthe Commander’s Award forbeing a worthy member for herrole in stepping up for the job ofboth managing the lounge,Rental Hall and all the respon-sibilities that came along withthe opportunity.

“For her dedication and over-sight of those two critical func-tions of this American LegionPost, I award Cheryl Atkins myCommanders Award,” WilliamG. MacIver, Commander ofFogg-Robert Post 78 stated.

Also, Mounir Akiki andLaura Akiki both received aCertificate of Appreciation fortheir gracious donation of a newflag pole and flag for the Ameri-can Legion Fogg-Robert Post78. Upon conclusion of the FlagService MacIver read thenames of all members whopassed this year.

“We’ve lost more than welost last year. We had 102 mem-bers of this post that havepassed and we now have thisyear, another seven,” saidMacIver. He then proceededto read all seven of the mem-bers’ names who passed awaythis year.

A mass and dedication wasthen celebrated at Most Pre-cious Blood Church on 25Maple St., Hyde Park. Themass was offered for the de-ceased members of the CecilW. Fogg/Thomas J. RobertsPost #78 of the American Le-

gion, The Post #78 Women’sAuxiliary, The Son’s Of TheAmerican Legion Squadron #78and Doyle Post VFW 2831. Themass joined together membersand friends of the Most PreciousBlood Parish in honor of thedeparted comrades who gaveup their lives so that all peoplewill live with peace.

The mass started with theprocessional American TheBeautiful. The entire churchjoined in to sing along to thisceremonial song. After the pro-cessional, the service pro-ceeded with a offertory, Com-

munion and a Recessionalwhich was the Battle Hymn ofthe Republic.

The service then continuedto five Hero Squares in HydePark, which were in dedicationto fallen heroes from the area.All members, residents andother attendees drove to thededicated squares, includingState Rep. Angelo Scaccia.Members Police escorts ledmembers through all thesquares, which included the Jo-seph A. Logan Square, CaptainDaniel J. Shempa Square, Pvt.Brony C. Wysockie Square,Cpl. Leo O. Raymond Square,and the Robert E. Kelly Square.At each square, Taps washummed and a three volley sa-lute was fired. The three volleysalute tradition comes from tra-ditional ceasefires where eachside would clear the dead. Thefiring of three volleys indicatedthat the dead were cleared andproperly cared for.

To bring the Memorial Ser-vices to an end, all attendees andmembers of the Post gatheredat the Grand Army Monumentlocated at Fairview Cemetery.Wreaths were placed in front ofthe Grand Army Monument,Taps was played and a ThreeVolley Salute was fired. At theceremony it was explained thatthe statute was knocked overby some kids about five yearsago.

Robert McQueen Finance officer for Post 78, Rev. Ron Coyne of Most Precious Blood Church, MarkCummings, Manager for Post 78 and Cheryl Atkins, Manager of the lounge, Rental hall of Post 78 and thePresident of the Ladies Auxiliary were waiting to start the mass and walk in together to show remembranceat the Memorial Day services. PHOTO BY TRENESE HALL

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Rose's Bounty helping school children and veteransJeff SullivanJeff SullivanJeff SullivanJeff SullivanJeff Sullivan

Staff Reporter

Rose’s Bounty Food Pantryin West Roxbury is using its ac-cess to healthy and fresh foodto help children in a local HydePark school to get the nutritionthey need over the weekend.

Pantry Director Darra Slaglesaid they first started thebackback food program back inJanuary after talking with one ofthe school’s social workers, Flo-rence Taylor, about the desper-ate need for some of the chil-dren. They put the program to-gether after speaking with thepastor of the Stratford StreetChurch, the home of the FoodPantry.

“There’s this fabulous socialworker there, Florence Taylor.She met our pastor, AbigailHenrich, and Florence men-tioned that... they have a lot ofunderserved kids and they didn’t’have anybody doing a backpackprogram so we met with her ona Wednesday and started bring-ing backpacks over there on thatFriday,” she said. “I believe westarted on January, but it feelslike we’ve been doing it forever.”

Slagle said that the programis designed to supplement thekids’ nutritional needs by givingthem a backpack of fresh foodto take home every Friday.

“We’re trying to model theprogram after Backpack 68,which is kind of an established

backpack program,” she said.“It’s called 68 because the pub-lic schools provide breakfast,lunch and snacks and, by thetime they leave on Friday untilMonday, it’s 68 hours of hunger.We tend to model that programin that we send home enoughfood for three dinners, twolunches and two breakfasts.”

Slagle said it was amazing towork with Taylor on this project.

“This program at her schoolreally depends on her position,”she said. “Every time I go to theschool she’s got some child incrisis that she’s helping.. It’s so

heartbreaking and at the sametime uplifting that they have herat the school. She’s definitely thelynch pin of this whole operationshe’s an amazing human being.”

Slagle said they currentlyserve 21 students each week.

“ Florence feels that there’sprobably some other families thatcould benefit from it but it’s oneof those things where it’s uncom-fortable for people so they’re notwilling to sign up,” she said. “Butwe’re certainly willing to providefor more. We feel strongly thatno child should be hungry on theweekends, and it’s only going to

benefit the development of thechildren by making sure they haveenough nutrients.”

Slagle said, however, therewere some issues early on thatthey were able to work out. Forone thing, they found that back-packs were not always bigenough to carry everything.

“We’ve worked throughsome of the kinks; the back-packs were not quite big enoughto send home the food, so wewent to reusable shopping bagsand every week we bring reus-able shopping bags for the kidsto take home on the weekends,”

Rose's Food Pantry is partnering with local schools to provide backpacks to kids when the school weekends.

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she said. “We did take it a stepfurther in that before the vaca-tions, we are sending home tworuns... We do a giant shoppingbag full of staples and other thingsduring the week. We figured thatover the school vacation they’restill going to have the same is-sue so we started doing twobags.”

Slagle said they are currentlylooking to expand to about twoother schools this year, but thatthey don’t want to overextendthemselves too quickly.

“Our goal for this year is tofind two more schools we couldpartner with. There are about4,000 to 5,000 students in Bos-ton that go hungry every week-end and we just feel like that isunacceptable and we’re going todo what we can,” she said.

Slagle said they are also run-ning a food program at the WestRoxbury VA Hospital to get foodto veterans in need. She saidpantry volunteers Carole Traverand Caryl Lattos have partneredwith a VA volunteer group toprepare food boxes for vets. Sheadded that, through their pro-gram, they are able to offer vetsa choice of what they want toobtain from the Pantry.

“We started doing boxes forthe vets so we created a spread-sheet that indicates all of the dif-ferent offerings at our food pan-try: the perishables as well as

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fresh foods, meats, dairy, and we are trying to get people more(by) modeling (ourselves after) the Greater Boston Food Bank,”she said. “They’ve been so supportive, so we’re making a hugeeffort to get as much produce, dairy and meats out to folks. Weput together banana boxes of food, but we don’t just send whatwe have. We have this spreadsheet that the social workers fillout so that we know if they have likes or dislikes or dietary re-strictions, so we’re sending them food they want, not just foodthat we give. That’s sort of the model for our pantry anyway.We don’t try to send people home with food they don’t want.”

For more information on Rose’s Bounty and its programs, goto stratfordstreetunitedchurch.org/about-roses-bounty.html.

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Hundreds of residents came out onMonday for the 50th annual Gar-dens at Gethsemane Memorial DayService. The day was filled withspeeches from Boston MayorMarty Walsh, District 6 City Coun-cilor Matt O'Malley, VFW Post2902 Commander Richie Gormley,State Sen. Michael Rush, StateRep. Edward Coppinger and Gar-dens Director Alan McKinnon.The ceremony honored LanceCoporal Alexander Arredondo, amarine killed in the line of duty in2004 in Iraq. Arredondo's fatherCarlos received a U.S. flag inmemory of his son, saying memo-rials like these are how his sonlives on. Gormley was also pre-sented with a plaque to honor his50 years of service on MemorialDay at the Gardens. Gormley saidduring the ceremony that when itstarted, there was nowhere nearthe numbers in attendance onMonday but that that wasn't thepoint. Gormley has been servingas VFW Post 2902 Commander fordecades at the Memorial Day cer-emony, and led the post's honorguard in services during that time.McKinnon was also honored forhis service in directing the eventfrom the civil side. Silver Star re-cipient and Afghan War veteranLt. Colonel Brandon Teague wasthe keynote speaker for the event,and said it was because of the sac-rifices of many of those buried atthe Gardens Cemetery that thosein the U.S. can rest easy. The Gar-dens at Gethsemane is the finalresting place of about 1,365 vet-erans, according to McKinnon.Rush pointed out during hisspeech that the U.S. is a countrystill at war, and asked that thecrowd remember the service mem-bers still serving around theworld.

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HPHS remembers General Henry Beebee CarringtonMatt MacDonaldMatt MacDonaldMatt MacDonaldMatt MacDonaldMatt MacDonald

Staff Reporter

The Hyde Park Historical So-ciety (HPHS) gathered on Satur-day, May 26 in Weld Hall of theHyde Park branch of the BostonPublic Library for its monthlymeeting.

About 25 people were in at-tendance for HPHS Vice Presi-dent Tom Sullivan’s presentationon Civil War General Henry Bee-bee Carrington.

Carrington – born inWallingford, CT in 1824 – lived inHyde Park from 1878 until hisdeath in 1912 and is buried inFairview Cemetery.

As Sullivan made clear in hishalf hour slide presentation,Carrington was a versatile andmulti-faceted person, having beenraised in an abolitionist household,graduating from Yale, teaching,becoming an attorney, authoringtwo books, and – in 1854 – chair-ing the committee to form the Re-publican Party... all before start-ing his military career.

Through Carrington’s earlylife, he also had a tendency to brushagainst important figures in Ameri-can history before their importancewas solidified: John Brown paid hisschool a visit when Carrington wasa child and – at around the sametime – the captives of the Amistadlived nearby as their case wentthrough the U.S. legal system.

Later, as a young teacher ofNatural Philosophy and Chemis-

try at the Irving Institute inTarrytown, New York, Washing-ton Irving himself encouragedCarrington to pursue his interestin American History, inspiring theyoung man to embark on his writ-ing career.

This would continue asCarrington relocated to Columbus,Ohio to join his cousin’s law firm.In 1848, he would be appointedAdjutant-General of the state and,in February of 1861, would escortAbraham Lincoln from Spring-field, Illinois to Columbus on athree-day whistle stop tour.

Shortly afterwards, Carringtonwould be commissioned Colonelof the 18th U.S. Infantry and –while on assignment in Indiana –determine that secret organizationssympathetic to the Confederacywere interfering with Union re-cruiting and encouraging desertion.

By the end of 1863, he was abrigadier general and Commanderof the District of Indiana of theDepartment of the Ohio and, in1864, would rejoin the 18th Infan-try.

It was after the Civil War,however, that Carrington’s namebecame better known… for thewrong reasons. While stationed atthe remote Fort Phil Kearny alongthe Bozeman Trail in present dayWyoming, he and his troops werebesieged by Red Cloud’s Sioux.

During this interlude, in lateDecember of 1866, Captain Will-iam Fetterman disregarded ordersand led a detachment from the Fort

into an ambush, resulting in themassacre of his troops, Carringtonbeing relieved of command, and ageneral outcry against him.

After U.S. Senate demandsfor an inquiry, General William T.Sherman exonerated him.

Leaving active service in 1870,Carrington settled in Hyde Parkin 1878, working as a publishingrepresentative and authoring ahandful of historical works.

As an active member of theHyde Park community (which hehad first visited in 1844, while re-searching Washington’s fortifica-tion of Dorchester Heights), hewas a member of the HPHS, serv-ing as its Corresponding Secretaryand Librarian.

According to Sullivan’s re-search, while a member of theHPHS, he also designed and su-pervised the installation of the bookcabinets that are still in use in WeldHall.

Carrington died at home (19Summer St.) in 1912 at 88 yearsold and is buried in Fairview Cem-etery at the foot of the hill atopwhich stands the Civil War Me-morial.

In the brief question and an-swer session that followed,Sullivan was asked about research-ing at Yale, he spoke of how wellorganized the papers and micro-film were, making everything veryaccessible.

“You’d think that you were atHarvard,” he quipped.

Sullivan also informed the

group that the plan to plant 150trees was turned down by the Cityarborist, who gave as a reason thefact that there wasn’t enough pub-lic space in Hyde Park to warrantthe planting of that many trees inthe neighborhood.

“Hopefully, what we’ll do islocate what trees are left from the100th anniversary of the town andarchive that information.”

Patrice Gattozzi, on behalf ofHP150, announced that – for theFamily Day at Kelley Field on June9 – a tent would be provided forthe Society. She added that shewas open to any suggestions as towhat it might like to have on offer.

She also put a suggestion for-ward that Hyde Park residents

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M. Gertrude Of Roslindale and Onset, diedpeacefully, on May 20, 2018. Beloved daughter ofthe late Edmund C. and Evelyn L. Devlin. Lovingsister of Therese (Teedee) Sweeney of Roslindale,Joan Frates of Plymouth and the late Mary D.Wiley, Edmund F.X. Devlin, Rev. Joseph D. Devlin,S.J. and Anthony R. Devlin. Much loved “Auntie”to over 20 nieces and nephews and numerousgrand-nieces and grand-nephews. Gert spent over30 years as a Guidance Counselor and Director ofGuidance at Norwood Junior High South. Gert do-nated her body to Tufts Medical School. A Massof Celebration of Gert’s life will be held at HolyName Church, West Roxbury, MA on Saturday,June 2nd, 2018 at 11 AM. In lieu of flowers, kindlymake a memorial donation in Gert’s name to theScott Berry Fund, 1011 South St., Roslindale, MA02131. www.lawlerfuneralhome.com

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“Betty” (Kelly)of Hyde Park,passed awaysuddenly onMay 28, 2018.Beloved wife ofthe late RichardJ. Latch. De-voted mother ofRichard W.Latch and hispartner Tom

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to land and it comes to buildingsin as much as the city now hasthe stewardship or ownership, beit from our Bostonians or anyother reason, we’re at the tableso that we understand wherethat land is going.”

Edwards said that currentlythe city has a process by whichthe land is used, but she doesn’tfeel the community is alwaysmade aware of when a propertyis available.

“I know currently the DND(Department of NeighborhoodDevelopment) and the BPDA(Boston Planning and Develop-ment Agency) has several plotsthroughout the City of Boston,but when they go to dispose ofthat land either through a sale orthrough a request for proposals,I just feel like there’s not a coor-dinated effort and manynonprofits would do well to beable to be at that table and beingfavored to get that land,” shesaid.

Properties continued from page 1Edwards said there are many

methods they could use to makethat land more useful to the city,especially during the currenthousing crunch. She said afford-able housing should be the longterm goal.

“I feel like there are a lot ofcreative ways in which we couldbe planning and through our landdisposition for permanent afford-able housing, including land trustswhich I think is an underutilizedtool in the City of Boston,” shesaid. “There’s also land banking,which other cities are doing andin some cases, when we’re deal-ing with receivership, which is juststewarding of a community of avacant building, how are we mak-ing sure that the community evenknows that they can actually stepup, steward and take care of thatbuilding? The cost that they pro-vide in taking care of that build-ing can be a lien on that homeand if there is an eventual fore-closure, the community could end

up using it. There is a discon-nect, that is a tool we have avail-able and one we’re not usingenough.”

According tobuildinghousing.boston.gov,there are currently 167 activeprojects the city has undertakenfrom vacant land, with threeprojects (one in Roxbury andtwo in Dorchester) currentlygoing through the process ofbuilding through DND’s currentprocess. The BPDA currentlyhas 236 parcels of land, butmany of the parcels are smallareas designed to increase openspace and would not be build-able. The BPDA states thatonly abutters can inquire aboutnon-buildable parcels, as theycould be used for additions, butany interested party can inquireabout buildable land currentlyowned by the BPDA. For moreinformation, go to.bostonplans.org/work-with-us/bpda-owned-land?viewall=1

Bishop of Toronto, Canada. Sister of Irene Gaffneyof Burlington and the late Thomas, Richard, andWilliam Kelly. Also survived by many nieces andnephews. Funeral from the P.E. Murray - F.J.Higgins, George F. Doherty & Sons Funeral Home2000 Centre St. West Roxbury on Thursday, May31st 9:30am, followed by a Funeral Mass at St. Anne’sChurch, Readville at 10:30am. Relatives and friendskindly invited. Visiting hours were Wednesday, May30th from 3-7pm at the funeral home. Interment Mas-sachusetts National Cemetery on Thursday at 1pm.

KIERSTEADMargaret G. “Peggy” (Hines) Of West Roxbury,

passed away May 25, 2018. Devoted wife of the lateRobert L. Kierstead. Cherished mother of Robert L.Kierstead, Jr. and his wife Elaine of Seattle, WA andTimothy M. Kierstead and his wife Jana of Needham,MA. Loving grandmother to Molly, Penny, John andErica Kierstead of Seattle, as well as Olivia, Alanaand Lane Kierstead of Needham. Sister of CarolGleason of Wellesley, Mary Hines of New YorkCity and the late Paul Hines, Ann-Marie Blute, Pe-ter Hines, Leo Hines, and John Hines. Also sur-vived by many nieces and nephews. Bburial at theMount Pleasant Cemetery, Liberty Street,Rockland, MA. In lieu of flowers, donations, inmemory of Peggy, may be made to Elizabeth Se-ton Residence, 125 Oakland St. Wellesley, MA02481. For guestbook: www.gormleyfuneral.comWilliam J. Gormley Funeral Service 617-323-8600


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Eleonora Longtime residentof West Roxbury passed awayon May 24, 2018. Beloved wifeof the late Gene Latyszonek. De-voted mother of GeorgeLatyszonek and his wife Doneenof New Jersey. Loving grand-mother of Matthew and AndrewLatyszonek. Sister of LarssFreimanis of New Hampshire. Afuneral from the P.E. Murray -F.J. Higgins, George F. Doherty& Sons Funeral Home 2000 Cen-tre St. West Roxbury was onWednesday, May 30th, followedby a Funeral Service at HolyTrinity Orthodox Cathedral, 165Park Dr., Boston, at 10am. In-terment St. Joseph Cemetery,West Roxbury. Expressions ofsympathy may be made inEleonora’s memory to the HolyTrinity Orthodox Cathedral. Forg u e s t b o o kpemurrayfuneral.com. P.E.Murray - F.J. Higgins George F.Doherty & Sons West Roxbury617-325-2000

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Roslindale, May 22, 2018. Be-loved wife of the late Francis M.Mazzarella and devoted motherof Lisa M. Gabrick and her hus-band James of Roslindale andRobert F. Mazzarella and his wifeAnn of Franklin. Sister of SandraSisk of Braintree. Loving grand-mother of 6 grandchildren. Fu-neral Interment at St. JosephCemetery, West Roxbury. GuestBook atwww.josephrussofuneralhome.com.

SPEZZANOAmelia T. (Costa) Of

Roslindale, May 22, 2018. Be-loved wife of the late George J.Spezzano.and devoted mother ofLinda Carr and her husband Paul

of Ft Myers FL, Mary Hebardof Milton, Deborah Pisano andher husband Renato of WestRoxbury, Angelo Spezzano andhis wife Angela of Stoughton,Stephen Spezzano and his wifeZee of Los Angeles andMichael Spezzano and his wifeLori of Tewksbury. Sister ofthe late Gaetano, Marianna andAngelo Costa. Loving Nana of13 grandchildren and 3 greatgrandchildren. Interment atKnollwood Memorial Park Can-ton. Guest Book atwww.josephrussofuneralhome.com.Visiting Hours: Saturday 8:30to 9:30 AM

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lifelong resident of Roslindalepassed away peacefully sur-rounded by her loving familyon May 27, 2018. Belovedwife of 65 years to James J.Sullivan. Loving mother ofAnne Sullivan of Attleboro,James Sullivan and his wifeAnnie of Mendon, MarkSullivan and his wife Karyn ofBothell, WA, Barbara Watersand her husband Greg of

Groton, Carol Duffy and herhusband Neil of Cinnaminson,NJ, Paula O’Malley and herhusband Chris of Mansfield,Evelyn Burns and her husbandMichael of Plainvil le andGerardine Hickey of Boston.Cherished grandmother ofJacob, Jesse, Calle, Daniel,Brian, Rebecca, Paul, Patrick,Hannah, Callahan, Ryan, Liam,Colin, Abagail, Luke and Jes-sica. Funeral from the WilliamJ. Gormley Funeral Home,2055 Centre Street, WESTROXBURY, on Thursday, May31, 2018 at 9:00 a.m., followedby a Funeral Mass in SacredHeart Church at 10 o’clock.Relatives and friends are kindlyinvited to attend. Visiting hoursWednesday, May 30th from 4-8 p.m. Interment St. JosephCemetery. In lieu of flowers,donations in Barbara’s memorymay be made to Sacred HeartChurch, 169 Cummings High-way, Roslindale, MA 02131.(sh-roslindale.org). For direc-tions and guestbook, pleasevisit: gormleyfuneral.com Wil-liam J. Gormley Funeral Ser-vice 617-323-8600

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Oh, most beautiful flower of Mt.Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor ofHeaven, Blessed Mother of the Sonof God, Immaculate Virgin, assist mein this necessity. Oh Star of the Sea,help me and show me herein youare my mother. Oh Holy Mary,Mother of God, Queen of Heavenand Earth, I humbly beseech theefrom the bottom of my heart to succorme in my necessity (make request).There are none that can withstandyour power. Oh Mary, conceivedwithout sin, pray for us who haverecourse to thee (three times). HolyMary, I place this cause in your hands(three times). Say this prayer for threeconsecutive days and then you mustpublish and it will be granted to you.

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compromise, Carolyn Royce ofESNA introduced the purpose ofthe hearing.

“City Life owns a lot of prop-erty in our neighborhood,”shesaid. ”It has a very big impact onus.”

“This is the beginning of acommunity conversation. We’veall had different dealings and dif-ferent experiences. What can bedone to lessen our concerns?”

Kevin Rainsford, a memberof the Jamaica Plain Neighbor-hood Council, moderated.

“There has been, over the lastseveral years a negative feeling

about City Realty,” he said. “Wewanted to meet with City Realtyand collect our concerns for themto take home and process.”

Rainsford introduced JoshFetterman,development projectmanager for City Realty.

“We’re very much a team,”Fetterman said and he introducedzoning attorney Jeff Drago, JayWalsh and four other staff.

“We’re a local real estatebusiness,” he said. “We startedabout 15 years ago and we havea staff of 50. All our work is inthe Boston office. Our office isin Brookline Village. We’re de-

veloper, contractor and propertymanager. We’ve been in JP aboutnine or 10 years.”

“Our first attempt at 3152 -3160 Washington four years agodidn’t work out well,” Fettermanadmitted. “We raised rents with-out any community dialogue.”

“But Anibel Color was ar-rested on a federal illegal gam-bling warrant and Pin Bochinchedidn’t pay their rent. Yet BravoPharmacy is doing well. It openedin early 2015 and is talking aboutexpanding.”

“Now we’ve got two newbusinesses coming in that block.

A+S Construction and Demolitionand Pikalo Empanadas and Sand-wiches.”

“We own 18 or 20 proper-ties,” Fetterman said. “JacksonGlass was our first big develop-ment project. It was a year- longprocess. Twenty public meetings.We’ve seen a lot of each other.Now we want this built. We’ll behaving a groundbreaking in thenext few months.”

“It’s condominiums,”he said.“but we had a good process. Ithas good affordability even be-fore the JP/Rox Guidelines. Noother developer is doing this.”“Another project is 197 GreenSt.,” Fetterman said. “We hadour first community meeting withthe Union Avenue group twoweeks ago. We changed our planafter listening to them. The build-ing will be 23 units, in full com-pliance with JP/Rox guidelines.Using the density bonus andinclusionary zoning to increaseaffordability. We’re the onlypeople complying with the JP/Rox guidelines.”

Royce opened the floor forcommunity concerns that lastedan hour of the 90- minute meet-ing. She wrote the commentsdown on three large sheets tapedto the wall.

“Let’s put everything out andgo forward from there,”she said.

Ponte Capella from City Lifegot straight to the point.

“City Realty is causing dis-placement with crazy specula-tion,” he said. “The property at3375Washington St. is being splitup. One half is on the market.”

Helen Mathews lives at 180Green St.

“The biggest single problemis speculative trading,”she said

Scott Shearer of theBrookside neighborhood agreed.

“Acquisition is at a pointwhere displacement will happen.Displacement is one of the mostimportant things that put peopleoff.”

But Shearer also saw theother end of that argument

“We need housing,”he said.“It’s much worse if developersare denied. City Realty owns par-cels between Amory andBrookside. If developers splitland off for smaller buildings soas to avoid affordability it putsus in a bind. We’re not entirelycomfortable by denying change.The only two programs availableto increase affordability are thedensity bonus and inclusionaryzoning.”

Ponte Capella and MarieTurley both took conciliatorystands.

“We’re not saying don’t buildstuff,” Ponte Capella said.”We’re saying help us createmore affordability. There’s defi-nitely a middle ground to get to50 percent affordability.”

“We see your foot print inmany places in JP,”Turleysaid.“Develop our neighborhood.Stabilize our neighborhood. Buthow to figure this out together?Both of us have big investmentsin this community.”

City Realty continued from page 1“A good place to start is good

community relations,”saidShearer.”on both residential andbusiness properties.”

Displacement of local mer-chants was raised using ElEmbajador Restaurant as theprime example. City Life –whichis selling the building in which therestaurant is located- has beenpressured for months to keep therestaurant in place at the samelease.

Rainsford looked at the clock.“There’s too many questions

to defend yourself,” he said toFetterman. “And not enoughtime.”

Fetterman looked at the threesheets of concerns on the wall.“I came here expecting aconversation,”he said. “I ex-pected a dialogue.” In the 20minutes left he answered asmany as he could.

“You don’t always hear theother side,” he said. “With ElEmbajador,we negotiated in goodfaith. We lined up a vacant store-front in a building we owned at3381 Washington St., the old Ex-press Pizza place. We camedown to the finish line and thenthey told us they wanted to sellthe business to someone else.We said no; the deal is only withyou.”

“We’d like to sell thebuilding,”he said. “It’s on themarket. We want to start onWashington Street so we tradedoff with the Jackson Glassproject.”

One person asked if City Re-alty owned 106 Forest Hills St.

“That’s not our project,” said.“It’s owned by Alan Sharif. It’snot us.” Fetterman said that 197Green St. and Brookside-Amoryare coming up for development.

“They will follow JP/Roxguidelines,”he said.“Like ourproject at Jackson Glass. We’regearing up for 197 Green St.;Brookside- Amory will be big-ger than nine units. It will be JP/Rox guidelines all the way. Add-ing housing where there wasn’tany before. Increasing afford-able housing.” “We scaled backat Cornwall and WashingtonStreet,”Fetterman said.“We lis-tened to you and it’s back tothree families.”

“Meetings create and pro-mote projectopportunities,”Fetterman said.“Maybe we can lower the AMI(area median income) at 197Green St. It fits directly into theJP/Rox guidelines. But we’ll lookat the numbers. Maybe we canoffer deeper affordability.”

Royce said as the meetingclosed that she was optimistic

“You’re always open to meetwith us,” she said.“Always avail-able. I appreciate that.” CityRealty’s first big project inEgleston Square is the JacksonGlass site and Fetterman is opti-mistic about that.

“We’re your neighbor like itor not,” he said.


Gold Star Families about howthey would like their loved onesto be remembered.

“About nine years ago, wewere sitting around with a groupof bereaved families and we rec-ognized that Memorial Day mustbe a difficult time of year forthem,” she said. “We said whatcan we do for you, and they saidthat each city and town does itsown parade and commemorationof Memorial Day, and that’s fine,but truthfully we get a lot of com-fort from being together andwhen the community as a wholerecognizes what we’ve beenthrough and is there a way wecan bring some meaning back toMemorial Day, because a lot offolks view it as the official kickoff to summer and the weekend,you know enjoying time withfamily and friends and that’swhat our loved ones fought for,but we’d just appreciate if folkstake a few minutes and remem-ber why they have that extra dayoff during the weekend.”

Nealon said originally theydid not have records for everylost soldier from Massachusetts,but eventually they were able tofind and confirm records datingback to the Revolutionary War.She said they planted exactly37,268 flags planted in the gar-den. She said they started plant-ing the flags last Wednesday with700 volunteers. She said it tooka few hours, with many volun-teers using screwdrivers to cre-

ate the holes for the flags. Shesaid in the past, before they hadso much support, it was a muchmore labor-intensive project.

“The very first year that wedid this, there were about 30 ofus who went to the rock hardground, and we went in withhammers and just took hours andhours to create our first flag gar-den,” she said. “On Wednesday,it took about an hour and a half.We had boy scouts, we had kidsfrom schools, we had senior citi-zens, we had corporate volun-teers who just helped us to dothis and we are just so grateful.”

She said throughout the week-end, they have numerous volun-teers to mind the garden whileresidents take in the sight.

“We’ve got volunteers whoare giving their free time thisweekend to walk the perimeterand make sure the flags are ingood shape and answer anyquestions people may have,”said Nealon.

Volunteer Rob Sherman saidhe’s volunteered for three yearsnow, and he’s glad to see so manyfolks coming out to rememberthose who died in the line of ser-vice.

“We do have a few peoplewho think it’s just a photo op-portunity, we had a young ladystepping in and posing, and wehad to ask her to step out andshe said ‘well you guys are inthere,’ you know, you get thatkind of reaction sometimes and

there were some kids too,” hesaid. “The thing I love thoughwas that there was this privatewho came by and told us thattwo or three years ago, beforehe enlisted, he really didn’t un-derstand this. Now he reallydoes.”

Retired Lt. Colonel ThomasDevine said he started volun-teering for the group since thebeginning, and that he served asa casualty officer 19 times dur-ing his career.

“After my first casualty call,they were starting this organiza-tion so we kind of got togetherand exchanged ideas on how toserve the Gold Star Family to-gether, and since then I servedwith this great organization,” hesaid.

Lt. Colonel James Maloneysaid he started helping out be-

cause one of the flags repre-sents one of his soldiers lost inthe line of duty.

“This is just a great opportu-nity for us to pause and remem-ber, not just here in Massachu-setts, but we have other statesthat are recognizing what we’redoing here in the Commonwealthand they’re doing similar thingsand that just makes us feel re-ally great that people are takingthe time to remember this sol-emn weekend,” he said.

Resident Tom Coleman saidhe had not been to the gardenbefore, but felt it immediatelyonce he did.

“It’s very impressive and de-pressive all at the same time,”he said. “It’s impressive in theway they have all these flags, butwhen you realize how many sol-diers who died, it’s very depress-

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ing. It’s not just a number now, itreally puts it in perspective forme, all these guys, each flag isfor a guy who gave his life sowe could do what we’re doingtoday.”

Residents Mike Kryzanecand Jerry Kelley came out be-cause their families served andthey wanted to remember thosethat didn’t come back.

“You know Jerry’s a Viet-nam veteran and my dad was aWorld War II veteran and wejust think it’s important thatpeople come here to rememberthe men and women who per-ished in the wars all the wayfrom the Revolutionary War toAfghan War,” he said. “We’reprivileged to be here and wecome from people who have hadsome connection to the military.”

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Gov. Charlie Baker, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Department of Veterans’ ServicesFrancisco Ureña and thousands of well wishers joined in the dedication ceremony for the Flag Garden onMay 24. Photo Courtesy City of Boston Mayor's Office


Galeotacontinued from page 4King Cole’s “Lazy, Hazy, CrazyDays of Summer.” Then cameFreddy Cannon’s “PalisadesPark,” Ella Fitzgerald’s “Sum-mertime and the Living Is Easy”(from “Porgy and Bess”), BrianHyland’s “Itsy Bitsy TeenieWeenie Yellow Polka Dot Bi-kini,” and The Jamies’ “Sum-mertime, Summertime,” beforeI could interject Sinatra’s “TheSummer Wind” and ConnieFrancis’ (aka Concetta MariaFranconaro’s) “V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N.” Taking a breath, he thenblurted out my parents’ favoriteanthem of summer, years beforeMitch Miller and LawrenceWelk used to feature it, “In theGood Old Summertime.”

After this long winter andeven longer March/April thetime cannot come soon enoughfor some fire-engine red, top-down Mazda Miata convertibleto cruise down WashingtonStreet with its radio or cassetteplayer blaring the best musicalharbinger of summer for thoseyearning to cross the Sagamoreor Bourne bridges again, PattiPage’s “Old Cape Cod.” Let’ssee, how does it start? Some-thing about if you’re fond ofsand dunes and salty air, quaintlittle villages, here and there ….

“This is a wonderful, won-derful ceremony and one timewhat happened was that stat-ute fell down because someyoungsters decided that’s theway it should’ve been and thatwas about five years ago. Nowit’s beautiful and its going to staythere for a very long time,” saidJohn P. Comer Past NationalCommander of Fogg-RobertPost 78.

Commander MacIver thenread two poems, one calledMother of the Vet. Many listenattentively while others lookedmoved by the words that werespoken.

“When you’re in the heat ofbattle and the hand of death isnear there’s always someonewith you to help you throughtheir fear, not a soldier or a sailorbut one who serves no less theprayers of one who loves you,the mother of a vet,” MacIverexclaimed. He then concluded“On this Veterans day and allthe future Veterans Days I dedi-cate this poem to those whonever heard the commandcease fire but neverthelessserved with the best, the motherof the vet.”

After the poems were readand another set of three Volleyswere fired, the memorial ser-vice ended with the Reverendof Most Previous Blood bless-ing the ceremonies which con-cluded Hyde Parks Day of Re-membrance.

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could photograph their homes and submit them to the HPHS for futurereference as time marches on.

In a last item of note, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Conlon of West Roxburydonated a framed certificate of commendation for James H. Rivers ofCompany A of the 24th Massachusetts Infantry for service in the CivilWar.

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Vice President Tom Sullivan makes his presentation on Henry BeebeeCarrington to the HPHS in the Hyde Park Library’s Weld Hall. Visiblebehind him are some of the book cabinets Carrington designed.

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