In this funny yet bittersweet memoir, author Howard Chislett takes us on a journey that spans 20 years of his life. By sharing stories of his early days—from growing up in Jamaica Plain to landing his first full-time job—Chislett paints a realistic portrait of life in America during the 1950s and 1960s.
Read MoreA short biography of this Candidate for the Republication Nomination for Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts 1932
Read MoreA 1907 article in which Mr Fowle who has always taken a deep interest in the affairs of the country and its people and thus is able to easily call to mind a host of incidents large and small. And it is a source of great pleasure to him to reflect upon events which have happened since his memory began.
Read MoreGeorge J. Knapp Dairy, founded in 1876, promised “Farm fresh milk from the Vermont cow to your door in 48 hours.” Harold C. ‘Hal’ Knapp Jr., grandson of the founder, remembers the Saturday morning trips to North Station with his father, Harold C. Knapp, to meet the milk train delivering its cargo of raw milk from the Vermont milk co-op to local dairies.
Read MoreGeneral Sumner was born on the auspicious evening of July 4, 1780, in the homestead in Roxbury by the corner of Washington and Sumner streets. He later developed many areas of Boston, including the Sumner Hill area in Jamaica Plain.
Read MoreI spent the first year of my life in a three-decker at 20 Glade Avenue, a dead-end street off Glen Road near Franklin Park. On my first birthday in May, 1950 we moved to the third floor of a three-decker at 171 Forest Hills Street.
Read MoreJudge James Cradock was born in 1941 and grew up on the upper end of Montebello Road near Franklin Park. He attended Our Lady of Lourdes School, Boston College High School and Boston College, where he graduated in 1963.
Read MoreA Jamaica Plain resident makes a pilgrimage in search of an author who made an impression on him from his college studies.
Read MoreBoston 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.
Read MoreAnyone interested in our local history soon comes upon Harriet Manning Whitcomb’s Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain, published in 61 pages at Cambridge in 1897.
Read MoreHenry Keaveney is a rich repository of old-time JP history who worked in the composing room of the Boston Globe for 41 years.
Read MoreHorace 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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