A Jamaica Plain resident makes a pilgrimage in search of an author who made an impression on him from his college studies.
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Boston has always been a city that prides itself on its social reform ideals, and Jamaica Plain has played its part as well. But few would think that Jamaica Plain played any part in the militant reform movement in the Midwest one hundred years ago. Yet America's leading writer of the farming frontier, Hamlin Garland, wrote his very first stories from an attic room in JP.
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Horace Parker Chandler was a publisher of poetry and law books, Boston real estate and mortgage broker, journalist, friend and advocate of all seamen, photographer, newspaper and magazine correspondent who resided in Jamaica Plain for 50 years.
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A synopsis of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail tour of Jamaica Plain. Download a version and take the tour yourself!
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Few residents of the Jamaica Plain district, if any, can recall the author of children’s histories and of schoolbooks upon an infinite variety of subjects, the publisher of magazines and almanacs, the all-round literary gentleman, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, known as "Peter Parley" at the height of his fame, who built the now vacant stone mansion on Montebello Rd. for his own occupancy in 1833.
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Sylvia Plath's life and death were ruled by dualities: the extremes of poetic passion. So it is no surprise that her birth in Jamaica Plain on October 27, 1932, is a little-known fact while her grave in Yorkshire, England, where the expatriate poet committed suicide at age 30, is a celebrated shrine.
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