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Recipe for disaster City preps food system for next big storm, climate change with newly released action plan

By ELIZA DEWEY

The snow that walloped the Boston area this winter hit many crucial systems hard, including the city’s network of food distributors and outlets.

The challenges were palpable for Roxbury’s Tropical Foods supermarket.

“We’ve had to close twice in the new location [since February 2015],” said owner Ronn Garry, citing snow troubles as the reason each time. “In the old store, we probably closed twice in 40 years.”

Garry said most of the store’s problems stemmed from the troubles on the MBTA, which made it nearly impossible for many of his employees to come to work.

“Obviously people want access to food, but our employees couldn’t make it in,” he said. He estimated that at least 80 percent of his employees were unable to get there on those two days.

With such problems in mind, last week the city released its firstever action plan to ensure food system resiliency. The report, titled Resilient Food Systems, Resilient Cities: Recommendations for the City of Boston, is a topdown examination of all the steps in the city’s food system — producers, processors, distributors and retailers — to help facilitate a coordinated response to potential future disruptions caused by natural disasters.

“This winter’s historic snowfall showed how much weather

can impact daily operations,” Mayor Walsh said via a statement. “As a city we need to be fully prepared when these storms or other natural disasters occur.

With these recommendations, we will be working to prepare our food systems for any disruption.”

The study incorporated lessons from resiliency planning in other cities, such as Toronto, San Francisco and New York.

It identified several key areas for improvement in Boston, including the need for more national chain grocery stores in low-income neighborhoods, greater resiliency plans for smaller grocery stores and corner stores, and more investment in infrastructure that is critical to food transportation such as roads.

Recommendations

In addition to analysis, the report included a host of recommendations: establish a committee of public and private sector food organizations to focus on food system resilience; develop a list of best practices in emergency planning and providing technical assistance to help small corner stores and bodegas plan ahead for disasters; incorporate study insights into the city’s transportation plan, Go Boston 2030; and develop and distribute storm action plan guidelines for food safety net organizations, such as soup kitchens and food pantries.

The report noted that beyond the issue of natural disasters and looming effects of climate

See FOOD SYSTEMS, page 20

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Mayor Martin Walsh offers remarks during a neighborhood coffee hour at Brewer-Burroughs Playground in Jamaica Plain.

Brazen shooting sparks heated discussion Mayor, community talk violence, policing

By ELIZA DEWEY

The shooting last week of a seven-year-old boy in the Bowdoin/ Geneva neighborhood opened up a local conversation on violence, policing and, tangentially, race.

The issues collided publicly when Mayor Martin Walsh made a much-publicized comment to WBZ in the wake of the shooting.

“What’s sad is there’s no outrage or protest about a 7-year-old being shot,” he said. “There’s some protests around the country with police officers’ interaction with

people, I think some of those protests, we need to start looking at our neighborhood and say, ‘what do we need to do to get the guns off our streets.’”

Walsh’s comments came as the Wall Street Journal last week released a report detailing nearly 400 police shootings so far this year, with half of all victims people of color. Among the unarmed victims of police shootings, two thirds were black and Latino.

Overall, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites and other minorities.

Walsh’s comment brought swift

reaction from many who viewed his words as a dig at protesters who have focused this year on police violence against people of color.

Others were quick to point out the countless community organizations that work against youth violence in the area on a daily basis.

At a Jamaica Plain coffee hour meeting at Brewer-Burroughs park last Thursday morning, the repercussions of that comment reverberated as some young activists used the opportunity to ask him about that statement.

See POLICE, page 7

Complex history behind Attucks’ teapot

By YAWU MILLER

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This pewter teapot (left), said to have belonged to Crispus Attucks, is on display at the Boston Public Library.

Rare prints, gold coins and countless library books have gone missing from the Boston Public Library in recent years, but one object that has stayed put, at least for the four weeks it’s been on display, is a small pewter teapot, said to have belonged to Crispus Attucks, the first man struck down by the British during the 1770 Boston Massacre, a riot largely seen as a precursor to the American Revolution.

Whether the teapot actually belonged to Attucks is as mysterious as are his life and circumstances.

Attucks was a man who in death

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from Revolution to Independence WHERE: McKim Exhibition Hall, Central Library WHEN: Monday–Thursday: 10 a.m.–7 p.m.; Friday–Saturday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sunday: 1–5 p.m. Now through Nov. 29 became a hero in the early resistance to British rule, a standard bearer for the anti-slavery movement and a symbol for the local civil rights movement of the early 20th century.

The first written record of Attucks’ existence is a 1750 advertisement in the Boston Gazette placed

by Attucks’ slave master: “RAN-away from his Master

William Brown of Framingham, on the 30th of Sept. last, a Molatto Fellow, about 27 Years of Age, named Crispas, 6 Feet two Inches high, short curl’d Hair, his Knees nearer together than common; had on a light colour’d Bearskin Coat, plain brown Fustian Jacket, or brown all-Wool one, new Buckskin Breeches, blue Yarn Stockings, and a check’d woollen Shirt.”

The next written reference to Crispus Attucks comes 20 years later in the massacre’s aftermath.

Although the tall, light-skinned black man who took two musket rounds to the chest was identified

See ATTUCKS, page 6

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Lawyers provide guidance for Cop Watch activists

By YAWU MILLER

Ask Curtis Rollins how many times he’s been stopped and searched by police, and you get a slightly more nuanced version of the “too many times” response most young black men give.

“In my estimation, too frequently for a law-abiding citizen,” he says. “I know my rights and haven’t broken any laws.”

In March, Rollins joined Cop Watch, a national network of individuals dedicated to documenting police abuse. Saturday, he attended a training in Roxbury conducted by experts on video recording police, including National Lawyers Guild attorney Oren Numni and ACLU Massachusetts staff attorneys Sarah Wunch and Carlton Williams.

Cop Watch now has a smart phone application that enables people to upload video to a website as it’s being recorded, ensuring that even if police officers confiscate the phone, video evidence of police misconduct will not be lost.

Saturday’s training, which drew about 50 participants to the First Church of Roxbury, focused on how to record and interact with police officers safely.

Wunsch noted that the ACLU’s successful defense of attorney Simon Glick, who was arrested for using his cellphone to video record a police officer who was beating a suspect, established a sound legal

precedent for video recording police.

Police charged Glick with illegal wiretapping, disturbing the peace and aiding the escape of a prisoner.

It is illegal to record audio of police officers without their knowledge.

But Glick, who used his cell phone in plain view, beat the charges.

“We said the First Amendment protects the right to observe and gather information on what our government is doing and share that with other people,” Wunsch said.

But Wunsch noted that it is important for people recording police officers to maintain a safe distance, so as not to interfere with an officer’s ability to make an arrest.

“Don’t get in the way of what they’re doing,” she said.

Much of Saturday’s training focused on the basic constitutional rights civilians have when confronted by law enforcement. As Williams explained, police can question individuals, but do not have the power to detain them

unless they have a reasonable, articulable suspicion that a person has committed a crime or is in the process of committing a crime.

“You can ask, ‘Am I being detained?’” Williams said. “If the answer is ‘No,’ you can just walk away.”

If an officer has a reasonable, articulable suspicion, he can detain a person and conduct a pat-down frisk to make sure the suspect is not carrying a weapon.

“Generally, this is supposed to be for their own protection,” Williams said of the police frisk. “You still don’t have to talk to them, but they have the right to detain you.”

While teens complain police routinely go through their pockets and search their backpacks, Williams noted that searches based on

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ACLU staff attorney Carlton Williams discusses the intricacies of reasonable, articulable suspicion during a forum at the First Church of Roxbury. Looking on are (left-right) Oren Nimni and Seneca Joyner.

”reasonable suspicion” are illegal.

“They can only pat you down,” he said. “They will go into your pockets, but it’s unconstitutional.

That’s because police must have probable cause to arrest before conducting a search of a suspect’s pockets, bag, or car.

“They can only search for things that are related to the thing you are being arrested for,” Williams said.

Nevertheless, if a search turns up illegal items not related to the initial cause for arrest, the suspect can still be charged for possession of those items, Williams added.

To avoid illegal searches, Williams advised participants in the training to clearly state their refusal to be searched.

“Police officers will say, ‘You don’t mind if I look around in your car,’” Numni said. “You can say, ‘I don’t consent to a search.’

It’s important to say that, because a lot of things can be construed as consent.”

Williams and Numni also advised the audience members to avoid any physical confrontation with police officers.

“The best thing to do is to verbally resist and physically comply,” Williams said.

Seneca Joyner, an organizer with the Black Lives Matter movement and a convener of Saturday’s training, said the event was designed to help empower people to protect each other from police abuse.

“We want to make sure that when police encounter people on the street, people are protected from acts of aggression and misconduct,” she said. “The be-all and end-all isn’t getting video. Having the knowledge and presence to be there and support people is what’s important.

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BHA readying RFP for Bunker Hill redevelopment ON THE WEB

By SANDRA LARSON

The Boston Housing Authority has moved a step closer to tapping private development dollars in the face of public funding gaps that make it difficult to operate and improve its aging housing stock.

In a public meeting May 28 at Charlestown High School, BHA Director Bill McGonagle outlined the agency’s plan to issue a Request for Proposals to transform the nearby Bunker Hill development into an expanded, mixed-income complex.

Federal funding for public housing has fallen steadily over recent years, leaving the BHA and other public housing authorities across the nation struggling, McGonagle explained.

“This has required us to start thinking of ways we had not thought about before to renovate and preserve public housing,” he said.

As one new strategy, the BHA wants to allow private developers to build new commercial space or market-rate housing units on BHA properties.

Last fall, the agency released a Request for Qualifications to gauge interest on the part of nonprofit and for-profit developers for refurbishing BHA developments in high-market areas where development could be profitable.

The RFQ generated “significant interest” in about 18 of the BHA’s 63 developments, McGonagle said. The May 28 meeting was to discuss the next step: the issuance in a few weeks of a Request for Proposals to which developers can respond with their ideas and plans for expanding housing on the Bunker Hill site.

Bunker Hill is the largest of Boston’s public housing developments, with more than 1,100 units in low-rise brick buildings closely spaced over several blocks between Charlestown High School and the Tobin Bridge. It is also one of the oldest, designed in the 1930s and built in 1940.

The complex contains little unused land, so Bunker Hill proposals will likely involve demolishing existing buildings and creating larger ones. Any redevelopment would contain at least the same number of affordable units, updated to 21st century standards, while adding market-rate and middle-priced “workforce” units to help support the public housing.

“In short, the concept is to

For updates on the RFP process and public meetings, see http://www.bostonhousing.org.

Check the “News” section on the home page.

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Boston Housing Authority Director Bill McGonagle and a Spanish-language interpreter listen to questions at a May 28 public meeting to discuss redevelopment of the Bunker Hill public housing development in Charlestown. recreate the Bunker Hill housing community ... as an economically integrated community,” McGonagle said.

Redevelopment would be funded through federal Section 8 subsidies, tax credits, private equity investment and possibly city of Boston funding for infrastructure.

McGonagle cited previous examples of public-private partnerships that he said resulted in a “significantly improved public housing community,” such as the transformations of Columbia Point to Harbor Point, and Orchard Park to Orchard Gardens.

The Bunker Hill transformation would begin in about two years, and likely would involve relocating about 25 percent of current residents at a time while portions of the complex are torn down and rebuilt in phases.

That process could put residents outside of Charlestown for six months to a year, he said.

BHA staff had already discussed the plans and process with Bunker Hill tenants, but this was the first public meeting. About 250 people from the housing development and beyond crowded into the school cafeteria. McGonagle’s presentation was brief, and the meeting was opened to questions after about 15 minutes. An interpreter repeated every statement and question in Spanish.

Current Bunker Hill residents focused largely on practical issues, probing repeatedly whether all existing residents would be able to move back in

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(Yes) with the same unit size and amenities (Yes) and whether the current affordability standards would be maintained (Yes). Several asked how the temporary dislocation would be handled, and were told the BHA would provide help with finding apartments and moving expenses.

McGonagle noted that in previous projects only about half of relocated residents wished to return after redevelopment.

A resident of the wider Charlestown neighborhood expressed concerns about parking issues and added building height. Another said he would not want to see the local streetscape altered.

Some asked how much input they could have on the RFP and the proposals.

McGonagle said the public can see the RFP at the same time it is released to developers, and the proposal selection committee will be made up of public housing residents and BHA staff.

The Q-and-A period was moderated by Betty Carrington, president of the Charlestown Tenant Task Force, formed two years ago to provide tenant representation. Overall, the tone of the meeting was relaxed, with no evidence of strong disapproval or fears.

Afterward, Carrington, known as “Big Mama,” said her group is

generally satisfied with the plans and with the process thus far and does not have specific worries at this point.

“We’ve done our homework,” she said. “We’re pretty much ready for it.”

Though the private developer who would transform the Bunker Hill complex has not yet been selected, Carrington and other task force members expressed confidence in McGonagle’s leadership and judgment.

“We trust him,” Carrington said. “Mr. McGonagle grew up in public housing, and the decisions he has made concerning us are right on point. We believe in him.”

Phil Wright, 62, moved into Bunker Hill four years ago. He suffered a spine injury at age 15 and has been totally disabled since age 38, he said. While he supports the BHA’s “bold” plan for Bunker Hill, he has general fears about public housing’s future, and the lack of political will to fund it.

“I do worry,” he said. “I’m on [Social Security Disability]. No one wants to advocate for me. I’m barely scraping by. When I hear about budget cuts, I panic.”

Once issued, the RFP will remain active for at least 30 days.

After proposals come in, a 30-to60-day selection process would include a series of public meetings. BHA officials encourage interested residents to check for updates on the BHA website.

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A protected class of criminals Many Americans have been inspired by the language of the nation’s Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” While there has been some dispute as to whether “all men” includes women or blacks, there always has been a general belief that “we the people” from the U.S. Constitution means sentient human beings. But now Americans are becoming more aware of the legal presumption that a corporation is also a person.

The business corporation was created for commercial convenience. Projects requiring substantial capital needed a way for passive investors to participate without assuming personal liability for the outcome beyond the amount of their investment. The business associates formed a company to carry on the business, make contracts, and to sue or be sued as necessary in its name. Thus the corporation was established with the rights of a person.

As time went by, the corporation gained the same rights under the 14th Amendment as an individual. This status was enhanced by two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Citizens United v. FEC in 2010 ruled that some restrictions on electioneering by corporations violated their First Amendment rights to free speech. In the Hobby Lobby case in 2014, the court ruled it was a violation of the freedom of religion rights of corporate shareholders to require them to provide contraception insurance coverage for employees as required under the Affordable Care Act. Now a new problem has arisen. A group of prominent banks have been declared guilty of

engaging in felonious enterprise. Citicorp, JP Morgan Chase, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland are guilty of colluding to rig the value of currencies. An individual found guilty of such conduct would be fined, imprisoned and barred by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from participating in future money market operations.

The problem is that these banks are “too big to fail,” an expression common during the bank crash of 2008-2009. The fear is that the economy would suffer by exacting the usual penalty from such a group of major banks.

So the solution has been for the banks to plead to the felony with the assurances from the SEC that the usual penalties will not be imposed.

The four banks will also pay a fine totaling $9 billion. That is not paid by the offending bank executives but will come from the banks’ financial resources. The innocent stockholders are actually the ones being penalized. There is no indication that an investigation will ensue to uncover the guilty participants employed by the banks.

The only penalty for those managing the banks involved in the felony is a bit of embarrassment. There is hardly any deterrence. Perhaps it is time to restrict the rights of personhood for corporations. Or perhaps it is time to reconsider the advisability of reducing the size of the banks that are too big to fail, as some have suggested. Management of a huge bank is so complex that renegade groups can operate within the bank without official notice.

What kind of system of justice does the nation have when felons can defraud the world, essentially with impunity, because they control enormous wealth?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Immigration and civil rights The Immigration and Nationality Act, popularly known as the HartCeller Act, was signed into law at the foot of the Statue of Liberty by President Lyndon Johnson on October 3, 1965. That legislation abolished the national-origins quota that made it extremely difficult for person of African or Asian descent to immigrate to the United States.

Perhaps it is time to examine how the civil rights activism that generated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act that was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965 did much to speed the Hart-Celler Act of October 1965. That movement created a human rights atmosphere

that looked beyond segregated lunch counters, water fountains, restrooms, movie theaters, etc., and turned critical eyes worldwide. Accordingly, racial quotas in our national immigration policies and apartheid in South Africa caught the eyes of those same civil rights activists.

President Johnson cited Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach as one of the champions who ushered the Hart-Celler Act through Congress and that was a very interesting link between two human rights movements. Attorney General Katzenbach also escorted Vivian Malone and James Hood into the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963 despite Governor George Wallace’s vow to “stand in the school-

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house door” to block integration.

Like the Attorney General, there were many others who were involved in championing both civil rights legislation and anti-racist immigration legislation.

In this 50th year since President Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act, let’s hope that there will be enlightening speeches and lectures from coast to coast come October 3, 2015. This will remind aging benefactors and enlighten recently-arrived beneficiaries that “things were not always thus” and it took a movement with great sacrifices to make “things” as they are today.

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America’s true crime problem

Do you think corporations should have the same rights as individuals?

By LEE A. DANIELS

It’s getting to be difficult to recall a week when, thanks to public exposure of videos, or tweets, text messages or emails, we’ve not seen another shocking example of police mistreatment of black or Hispanic citizens under questionable circumstances.

Consider that, and then ponder these words about black Americans and the criminal justice system: “There is too much crime and too little justice in the lives of black Americans today. But while the problem of crime is widely shared in the United States, the problem of injustice is not.”

And these words which closely follow them: “It is a paradox that black Americans, who suffer from crime disproportionately, have mixed feelings, at best, regarding its support of and confidence in the criminal justice system as it operates today.”

And, finally, these: “The only way out of this paradox is to address the problems of crime and injustice simultaneously: changing the nature of the courts, criminal punishments and law enforcement agencies and their agents, while honestly acknowledging the scope of the crime problem and working for peace in Black America.”

No, you won’t find those words in the agreement signed last week by the federal Department of Justice and the city of Cleveland requiring an extensive reform of the city’s widely criticized police force.

Actually, they were written 20 years ago by criminal justice scholar Christopher E. Stone, then head of the nonprofit Vera Institute for Justice, in the 1996 edition of the National Urban League publication, The State of Black America 1996. Stone, a founder of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, in New York City, is now president of the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations.

But they are as relevant today as then because the use of social media has undeniably revealed that some significant segment of cops — largely white ones but also some black and Hispanic ones, too — view black Americans not as citizens to protect but easy marks to prey upon.

What’s also been made clear, via a growing stack of Justice Department investigations of small-city and big-city police departments, is that this predatory attitude and behavior, has long been part of the “culture” of policing itself.

The Justice Department’s scathing report on the management and practices of the Cleveland police force is the latest to show that police departments’ racist practices toward blacks and Hispanics is also both a cause and effect of bad policing: of the unnecessary and excessive use of deadly force and lethal force; of retaliatory beatings and the unnecessary use of Tasers, batons and chemical sprays; of the mistreatment of people who are mentally ill; of the use of poor tactics in dangerous situations that put officers and innocent civilians at risk; and of a lack of proper training and supervision of its officers.

The new agreement requires specific measures to correct the deficiencies. Most important, it mandates the creation of a 13-member community police commission to oversee the reform effort.

That body will have ten members representing a cross-section of the Cleveland community and one member each from the Cleveland Patrolmen’s Association, the Fraternal Order of Police, and the Black Shield police association.

Of course, the commission has much contentious work ahead of it in trying to solve the problems of the Cleveland police force. But the Justice Department’s involvement in forging the agreement, and those of other communities bedeviled by egregiously racist police practices, underscore the fact that reforming bad police departments requires the combination of federal government oversight and local government oversight and local-community oversight.

That requires that the right people be in charge of the Justice Department — which means having the right people in charge of the White House, if there’s to be any chance of solving the nation’s true crime problem: a criminal justice system built substantially on injustice, particularly racial injustice.

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...[R]eforming bad police departments requires the combination of federal and local government, and local-community oversight”

Lee A. Daniels’ new collection of columns, Race Forward: Facing America’s Racial Divide in 2014, is available at www.amazon.com

People should have equal rights, but not businesses.

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with the board and the administration to accelerate the pace of change and improvement on behalf of all our students and the Commonwealth as a whole.”

Santiago joined the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education in April 2013 as the senior deputy commissioner for Academic Affairs. His past academic appointments include that of chancellor of the University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee (Wisconsin’s second largest research university). He brings over 30 years of experience in public higher education. Santiago also served as provost and chief operating officer at the University at Albany. He was a professor of economics at UWM and SUNY-Albany and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University. He is also the author or co-author of six books and has published dozens of articles and book reviews, of which many focus on economic development and the changing socioeconomic

status of Latinos in the United States. On two separate occasions, in 1996 and 2011, Santiago has been named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States by Hispanic Business magazine.

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CARLOS SANTIAGO Education Secretary James A. Peyser announced the new commissioner for Higher Education, Carlos Santiago, who currently serves as the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education senior deputy commissioner for Academic Affairs. This announcement follows the Board of Higher Education’s (BHE) vote today, which unanimously recommended (12-0) in favor of Dr. Santiago’s candidacy.

“I congratulate Dr. Carlos Santiago on his appointment as the next Commissioner of higher education,” said Governor Charlie Baker. “Massachusetts is a leader in education, but we are faced with an increasingly competitive global marketplace and continuing achievement gaps. With Carlos at the helm, I’m confident our public higher education system will rise to the challenge.”

“I am honored by the board’s vote of confidence,” Santiago said. “I look forward to working

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Attucks

continued from page 1 as Michael Johnson in the coroner’s report, written on the same the Thursday he and three other victims were buried, by the following Monday the Boston Gazette had identified him as Crispus Attucks.

The initial identification has led some historians to speculate that Attucks lived under an assumed name to avoid re-capture by the Brown family (slavery wasn’t abolished in Massachusetts until 1783).

Life after death

While he may have lived in relative obscurity — as much as any light-skinned, 6’2” black man could live under in colonial Boston — Attucks, more than any of the other four victims of the British soldiers, grew famous after his death.

“He became a symbol,” says state Rep. Byron Rushing. “All five of them became symbols. When the revolutionary forces got going, they used that day, March 5, as the first, non-British patriotic holiday.”

Rushing points out the Attucks was identified as the ringleader of the mob that confronted the British soldiers during the incident. He also figured prominently in the ensuing trial saw two soldiers convicted of manslaughter. Attucks and the other victims were buried together in the Granary Burial Ground, going against the 18th century custom which dictated that blacks were to be buried separate from whites.

Soon after, though, the massacre holiday was eclipsed by celebrations commemorating the July 4 1776 day that colonists signed the Declaration of Independence from Britain.

Attucks may have faded from the

A 19th century image depicting Crispus Attucks. No 18th century drawings or paintings of Attucks are known to exist. popular consciousness, along with the names of the other four colonists shot by British troops, were it not for the efforts of abolitionist and black historian William Cooper Nell. In the 1850s, Nell organized commemorations of the Boston Massacre, highlighting Attucks’ role in the struggle for U.S. independence, says historian J. L. Bell, who has written extensively about Attucks and the teapot in his blog, Boston 1776.

Nearly 100 years after Attucks’ death — and more than 70 years after the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts — descendants of Attucks’ master, William Brown,

began attending Nell’s commemorations and started to speak publicly of their ownership of his possessions, including a pewter drinking cup and powder horn.

In 1860, Bell notes, James W. Brown, a legislator representing Framingham in the State House, wrote Nell telling him that Attucks belonged to his great grandfather, William Brown. Brown alleged that Attucks, after running away, had returned to Framingham where he remained a “faithful servant” until his death. On the day of the massacre, Brown said, Attucks was in Boston trading cattle.

But as Bell points out, those assertions, shared by other Brown descendants during the 1850s at a time when Boston’s abolitionist movement was in full swing, may have been an attempt to sanitize the family’s involvement in the institution of slavery, as Bell points out. The original newspaper report of Attucks’ death identified Michael Johnson as a sailor — an occupation not well suited for a faithful servant.

As Rushing notes, there’s no telling what really happened.

“People have spent a lot of time trying to figure out things about him,” Rushing says. “You have all the the bits and pieces, but there’s no documented information about him after he ran away.”

While the anti-slavery cause ended with abolition in 1865, Attucks’ post-mortem career as a noted martyr continued. In 1888, blacks, progressive whites and Irish immigrants, who noted that massacre victim Patrick Carr was Irish, succeeded in placing a memorial to Attucks and the other four victims on the Boston Common.

And in the early years of the 20th century, black newspaper publisher William Monroe Trotter honored Attucks’ memory with ceremonies organized by his civil rights organization, the Equal Rights League.

“They used the Boston Massacre as their holiday,” Rushing says. “They would go down to the site of the massacre, the cemetery where the victims are buried and the memorial.”

The teapot

The teapot is on display at the Boston Public Library as part of its exhibition, We Are One: Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence. The exhibition

marks the 250th anniversary of the Stamp Act, a set of tax laws passed in 1765 by the British Parliament to pay for the so-called French-Indian War, the North American theatre of the Seven Years’ War in which British colonists and their Native American allies fought against New France, ultimately driving the French from Nova Scotia, Quebec and Montreal.

The taxes prompted protests, including the Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre, which ultimately led to open rebellion at the dawn of the American Revolution.

While the events leading up to the Revolution are well-documented, Attucks’ own complex and contested history casts significant doubts on the teapot’s authenticity. Bell identifies the donor, who gave it to the Bostonian Society, as Sarah Kimball, a descendant of William Brown. Later, the Bostonian Society gave the teapot to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England.

But whether the teapot actually belonged to Attucks remains an open question, as do many aspects of his life.

If Attucks, as his descendants maintain, returned after his 1850 escape to serve William Brown, it’s more plausible that the teapot belonged to him. If Attucks ran away and spent the next 20 years at sea and roaming the streets of Boston, why would the Brown family have kept the teapot for him?

“The provenance of these ‘relics’ is impossible to confirm, but the two items that survive do appear to date from the early 1700s,” Bell writes in his blog. “They’re also cheap and misshapen, unlikely to have been saved unless the family had invested them with some meaning.”

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Mayor Martin Walsh answered questions from activists during a Jamaica Plain coffee hour last week after he made remarks questioning the priorities of protesters who demonstrate against police brutality.

continued from page 1 The mayor responded by distancing himself from his original statement.

“People are upset in Bowdoin-Geneva,” he said. “They work hard … [and] it’s a random act of violence. … People should be angry and they are angry.”

He said that his reference to a lack of anger was a criticism aimed at community members who might have information about the shooting but thus far have declined to share it with law enforcement.

“People should get angry and no one’s talking about it. … No one’s talking to the police,” he said, adding he felt confident someone had seen the shooter.

The Banner asked specifically whether his original statement had been in reference to the Black Lives Matter movement.

“Absolutely not,” Walsh said.

BLM weighs in

Walsh’s statements did not sit well with local Black Lives Matter organizers.

“I thought the mayor’s initial comments were both callous and completely ludicrous,” said Seneca Joyner, one of the organizers of Boston’s Black Lives Matter group, when reached by the Banner via email. “He suggests that black people don’t really care about other black people. Such sentiments are racist.”

She added that she also was not convinced by his follow-up explanation on the matter.

“His ‘clarifications’ read as particularly ignorant,” she said.

“They’re denying their own culpability in supporting this racist system and instead shifting responsibility for state violence onto our over-policed and under-served communities,” she said.

Joyner’s comments highlighted critiques that people in Boston’s communities of color have long had about the police department, including the suspected role that race plays in homicide investigations.

Boston Police Department spokesperson Lt. Mike McCarthy responded to a Banner request for comment on the matter via email:

cut across racial lines — most obviously in the case of a local opioid trade driven overwhelmingly by white drug users, as the Banner covered last month.

While heroin was widely considered a “black” drug in the 1970s and 1980s, it is now most prevalent in white communities across Massachusetts.

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“What I can say is that every homicide investigation is unique.

As such, every investigation can be different with different outcomes.

Some have witnesses, some don’t, some happen inside, some outside, etc. Race is never a factor when conducting an investigation. Nor is any particular neighborhood or section of the city. We go where the investigation takes us.”

Root causes of violence

Aside from policing matters, conversations in the wake of the shooting revealed another issue of concern to many: the root causes that underlie gun violence.

The conversation between Walsh and the young activists at the community meeting did show one area of common ground.

“I’m willing to bet a large percentage of those people that have guns don’t have jobs,” Walsh said, eliciting some nods of agreement from the young people gathered around him. “They turn to the streets because they have to. …

There’s a root cause.”

Speaking by phone with the Banner, City Councilor Charles Yancey emphasized another element: the need for greater city investments in direct prevention approaches.

“We need to increase the number of street workers, youth workers and mentors,” he said.

“There are only 30 street workers for the city of Boston. That’s not sufficient when you consider the number of young people who drop

out [of school] every year.”

Yancey proposed, as he has for some time, increasing the number of street workers to 300 – an idea he said was based on the city’s previous experience.

“In the mid-1990s, the street worker program was increased, and there was a significant decease in the level of violence,” he said. “But it was on a pilot basis, so after we achieved success, we decreased the numbers,” he laughed ironically.

He added that many of the same people who caused community violence could be served through targeted prevention programs.

“We spend $50 million per year on police overtime — that’s almost twice the entire budget for Boston Center for Youth and Families [the city’s largest youth and human services agency],” he said. “I really believe it’s a trade-off.”

“The administration is moving in the right direction,” he concluded. “But the approach is far too timid.”

Dangerous trade

Matt Parker, the coordinator for the Boston Public Health Commission’s Violence Intervention and Prevention initiative for the Bowdoin/Geneva area, also spoke with the Banner by phone about the problems facing the community. He said the main source of the problem he saw was the illegal weapons trade driving the violence.

“The accessibility to guns is so high,” he said. “Massachusetts has a lot of restrictions, but it’s not enough to stop the illegal trade.”

He said that the problem was perpetuated by a “small percentage of individuals.”

The issue of state firearms laws is evident, for instance, in the drugs-for-guns trade as reported last year by the Boston Globe that stretches between Massachusetts and states with lax gun laws.

And despite the persistent stereotype of such crimes being a “black” problem, the customers fueling such drug trades

In terms of hope for the future, Parker sounded a positive note. He said the Bowdoin/Geneva neighborhood has changed significantly since he was growing up there in the mid-1990s.

The greatest driver of change, he said, is an increase in community action on the issue.

“People took ownership in community issues,” he said. He described an incident two weeks ago in which a party was turning violent and some community members intervened to stop it and call the police.

“When people have enough, they will step up and stop it,” he said. “Those types of incidents never get highlighted … but those little moments do happen. That’s cause for celebration.”

He said that in terms of community-police relations, he had also seen improvements.

“Things have gotten better, especially due to more vocal residents,” he said. He noted changes like police bike patrols and a stronger focus on relationship-building with residents through involvement in after school programs and community meetings.

“I say that with an air of caution because nothing is ever 100 percent great, but they’ve [improved],” he said of the police.

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By ROBIN WASHINGTON

Former Banner Managing Editor Robin Washington produced the public television documentary “You Don’t Have to Ride Jim Crow!” He may be reached at robin@robinwashington.com or via Twitter @robinbirk.

In a life spanning 91 years — more than 40 of those spent off-the-grid on a Deerfield farm demonstrating how anyone could live simply without contributing to war and economic disparity — Juanita Nelson inspired thousands.

On Saturday, hundreds of those souls marched behind a New Orleans-style funeral band for a mile from the town common to the middle school to share their stories of the power of her life.

Born Juanita Morrow in 1923, Nelson died March 9 in Greenfield after a lifetime of activism that took her from Cleveland, Ohio, to Howard University and early careers in the Wally and Juanita Nelson in an undated photo. Civil rights activists and, later, peace activists, the Nelsons lived off the grid, 1940s as a reporter for the black farming in Deerfield Massachusetts. Juanita, who died in March, was honored with a New Orleans-style funeral parade last week. press and organizer for the Congress “The reason I don’t have those themselves on Quaker-owned land Education decision outlawing segof Racial Equality. She then dediRSVP quarter page ad Bay State Banner copy.pdf 1 2/24/2015 11:45:03 AM cated her life to pacifism, and with things is that I want to be as little in Deerfield in 1974, following years regation, racial bigotry still ruled the her husband Wally, spent half a cen- connected as I can to our economy as of activism around the country. Deep South.

“We were down there four tury in a subsistence lifestyle freeing it is, with the big corporations, with Along with being early organizers them from the requirement of filing a lot of money-making, that sort of of CORE, the couple co-founded months and there were about nine income tax used to support war and thing,” she continued, describing the pacifist Peacemakers group in shootings into the community how they grew just enough food to Ohio in the late 1940s and in 1957 while we were there,” she recalled other injustices.

“We don’t have electricity. We eat and sold a small surplus for inci- put their lives on the line to keep in an interview with Memorial the interracial Koinonia Farm alive Hall Museum Online website of don’t have plumbing. We use an dental expenses.

Deerfield’s Pocumtuck Valley MeThe Nelsons — who never legally in Americus, Ga. outhouse,” she said in a 1994 interThough it was a year after the morial Association. view for the public television docu- married but were frequently deAfter one scare while on watch mentary, “You Don’t Have to Right scribed as inseparable until Wally’s Montgomery Bus Boycott and three death in 2002 — built their home years after the Brown v. Board of duty in their car, Nelson said she Jim Crow!” decided the best way to meet those who would do them harm was face-on.

“We’d get out of the car and stand under the light, which is, tactically and morally, for me, the best thing to do,” she said.

At her memorial service, longtime friends and fellow travelers shared similar stories of her steely resolve — and wit.

“An ongoing argument that some of us had with Juanita was that she didn’t want to call herself an organizer,” recalled Ruth Benn of the War Resisters League. “She would say, ‘I can’t make anybody do anything. The big thing is that I do what I can.’”

Of Nelson’s economic theories, Benn added: “She suggests watching a jar of pennies on your desk to see if after a few days there are 101 pennies and then 102 and 110. She concluded that money does not have reproductive powers and that

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Bob Bady, another activist she deeply influenced, described Nelson as an economist, though her degree after leaving Howard was in speech pathology from Ohio State University.

“She strove to deconstruct and understand all of the economic relationships in her life,” he said, adding that she advocated voluntary poverty after having been born into involuntary poverty.

I too experienced her uncompromising sense of principle. In 1994, as producer of a television documentary about the first Freedom Ride, in 1947, that challenged Southern segregation, I needed to get Wally to a Virginia reunion with his fellow participants. The filming was scheduled for a Saturday, the same day the Nelsons sold their beans in Greenfield’s farmer’s market.

To get Wally out on schedule, I suggested a food bank might buy the beans in bulk. But Juanita would have none of it, seeing through my ruse and making it clear that the farmer’s market was an integral part of their lifestyle, not a capitalistic by-product of it. They went to the market as usual, and Wally flew out the next day.

They lived their ideals and challenged conventions in other ways.

Though Juanita took Wally’s surname, “They told me many times they deliberately made a decision not to get legally married, saying that government had no business in that part of people’s lives,” longtime friend and fellow antiwar activist Randy Kehler said shortly after her passing.

Yet they were appreciative of government imprimatur in another aspect of their lives, pointing out with pride their “two-seater” as the “only state-licensed outhouse in Franklin County.”

The couple had no children.

After Wally’s death, Juanita continued the farm but eventually moved in with Kehler and his wife, Betsy Corner, in Greenfield.

“Her memory, as affected by dementia, kept shortening and the repetition of questions increased.

‘What time is it? What day is it?

What’s the temperature?’ Corner wrote in March.

“But just when you thought that she wasn’t much there, Nita could come out with a zinger: ‘Getting old isn’t for sissies’,” Corner quoted Nelson saying.

Nor is a life of determined nonviolent activism, which Juanita Nelson lived so well.

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Entrepreneur strikes pay dirt with massage startup

By MARTIN DESMARAIS

Many small business entrepreneurs who worked previously for someone else admit they started their own venture as a way to have their hands on all aspects of a business. Christine Rose is no different.

It is just that in her case, her desire for a more hands-on business is literally “hands on” as her startup venture is a massage therapy company, Imani Massage.

The Jamaica Plain-based business offers common massage services including deep tissue, pre-natal, sports and Swedish, but it also offers more specialized massage services like myofascial and hot stone.

Started in 2011, Rose has grown Imani Massage from a side business into a fulltime occupation that she is hoping to expand.

“I have been trying to build my brand of Imani Massage since I started,” Rose said. “My goal is to build my business so I can create a company and have employees.”

Room to grow

Imani Massage is currently located in The Meeting Point building in Jamaica Plain. The Meeting Point is home to a number of independent body workers and mental health practitioners. Rose rents space to offer her massage services, but keeps overhead down because she only has to rent the space when she is using it — right now about 20 hours of massage time a week. For a massage therapist that is about fulltime with 20 actual massage hours and the rest of the work week on administration.

Rose is talking to a potential partner from The Meeting Point about finding their own location, an office in the 2,200-3,000 square-foot range to office both massage and yoga services.

She has set a goal to make this happen in the next two years.

In the massage business, client

referrals are critical to growing the business so Rose is very active getting out and about beyond just serving clients at The Meeting Point.

She also serves customers each week through Rolling River Massage, an Arlington-based mobile massage company that works with clientele at hotels, businesses, events and homes throughout Boston.

In addition, Rose does chair massages at Boston Medical Center one night a week.

“Now, I am building because of referrals,” Rose said. “I think with any service-oriented business it is about word of mouth.”

Cultivating loyalty

Though Rose does business around Boston, she is very much at home in Jamaica Plain and most of her clients are from the area. She plans to keep the business there as well.

“I knew that I wanted to have a practice either in Jamaica Plain or in Mission Hill,” she said. “And the reason why is because those residents I know support local business. If they want a business to happen and succeed — they will make it happen.”

Imani Massage charges between $50 and $100 an hour for its different massage services. Rose points out, though, that she charges $65 an hour for many of the most common massage services, which is about $20 less than many charge for these same services.

As an evangelist for massage in her neighborhood she is OK with charging a little less because she doesn’t want the cost to keep people from trying it. A lot of her customers come back consistently — once a month or twice a month. Loyal customers are the lifeblood of her business.

Something else that is unique about being in the massage business is that the hands are the talent, and they need to be taken care of. That PHOTO COURTESY OF IMANI MASSAGE

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Christine Rose, founder of Imani Massage.

Second Pitch in the City startup event set for June 16 in Roxbury

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Building on the success of the first Pitch in the City, which was held earlier this year, Banner Biz magazine is back with a second event set for June 16 at 7 p.m. at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury. It will bring together some of Boston’s hottest entrepreneurs and give them a chance to pitch their startup ideas to a panel of business experts.

The goal of Pitch in the City is to give them an opportunity to present their ideas, get support and feedback on plans, make connections for the next stage of growth and practice their message to investors.

Prizes will be awarded to candidates making best business pitch. Six different local startups — chosen through an application process — will present their ideas hoping to claim the title.

Joining Banner Biz in hosting the second Pitch in the City is the Venture Café Foundation, an organization that works to connect the innovation community through operating spaces and programs that support startups and business growth. Venture Café operates District Hall in Seaport and business innovation events in Kendall Square, and also runs the Roxbury Innovation Center.

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means nightly icing and staying physically fit overall, as well as, periodic breaks throughout the year to rest the hands. Generally, the most any massage therapist can do of actual hands-on massaging is six hours in a day.

As a small business owner, Rose draws on what she calls a family full of entrepreneurs.

She grew up in Rochester, Mass., a small town in the Cape Cod area. Her linage traces back to the Cape Verde Islands four generations ago. The traditional family business was running a 30-acre cranberry bog in the fertile Cape region. Her grandfather carried on the family’s legacy operating the bog until his death in 1990.

Her father ran his own construction business. Her sister, Elizabeth Siggers, owns and operates Liz’s Hair Care in Mission Hill.

A series of career changes

For her family, Rose was actually late to the entrepreneurial table. After graduating Boston University in 1992 she spent a decade working in the financial industry with BNY Mellon in Everett before leaving and helping her sister get her hair salon off the ground. She was part of this business from 2002 to 2008.

In 2008, after many years of volunteering with Mission Hill Main Streets, she took a job as executive director of the organization, which she did for another two years. But her experience working in her sister’s business, and perhaps the pull of her family’s

entrepreneurial spirit, made her want to do something on her own.

She hit on massage based on her desire to do something in the service industry and because while working with her sister she had previously considered expanding Liz’s Hair Care into the spa business, which includes massages. She liked the idea and decided to use it for herself.

In 2010, she attended the Cortiva Institute in Boston to learn the massage craft. When she graduated in early 2011, she immediately took a part-time massage job at Elizabeth Grady Day Spa in South Boston and used the rest of her time to launch Imani Massage.

She doesn’t have a single regret about making the move.

“I am absolutely thrilled. This is the best career change ever,” Rose said. “I pray that I can last for 20 more years doing this.”

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ften overlooked in favor of pork chops and tenderloins, pork loin is a budget-minded cook’s friend. In its customary size of 2 1/2 to 3 pounds, it makes for a low-fat, yet juicy roast that’s easily gussied up by a myriad of pastes and glazes.

The key to a flavorful and moist pork loin is in the searing, which locks in the flavor and creates a browned exterior. Leave the loin undisturbed in the pan, except for turning, so that the outer flesh caramelizes. Then pat with seasonings and finish roasting, fat side up.

To keep leftover pork moist, try this tip: Thinly slice the pork loin, to the bottom of the roast but not all the way through. Press together.

Drizzle olive oil over the top, allowing it to seep between slices. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator.

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Glazed Pork Loin with Honey and Sage n 1 teaspoon garlic powder n 2 teaspoons coarse salt n 1 teaspoon ground black pepper n 1 (2 ½- to 3-pound) boneless pork loin n 2 tablespoons vegetable oil n 1 tablespoon honey n 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil n 1 tablespoon minced fresh sage or 1 teaspoon dried

Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.

Lightly coat baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray.

Slice zucchini into 1/4-inch thick rounds, leaving green skin on. Place rounds in resealable plastic bag with olive oil; shake to coat all sides.

Combine Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, salt, pepper and paprika in small bowl.

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Bake until browned and crisp, about 10 minutes. Remove with spatula. Serve warm.

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Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Combine garlic powder, salt and pepper.

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Heat vegetable oil in a shallow, ovenproof pan over medium-high heat. Add pork and sear until browned, about 3 minutes per side. Place pan in oven and roast 25 minutes.

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Dream sequence from the opera “Crossing,” based on Walt Whitman.

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CROSSING

Opera based on Walt Whitman on stage through this Saturday

By SUSAN SACCOCCIA

“What is it, then, between us?”

In this line from his poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Walt Whitman asks what connects and comes between people, whether they are in the same room or centuries apart.

Whitman (1819-1892) gave voice to free spirit and a modern, uniquely American mysticism that zealously embraced daily life, from factories and stockyards to city streets.

He inspired contemporaries, including Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) and more recently, gifted composer Matthew Aucoin. His opera about Whitman had its world premiere this weekend at Boston’s Citi Shubert Theatre, where it is on stage through June 6.

Aucoin composed and wrote the opera, which he begins with Whitman’s question.

Beautifully staged and magnificently performed, this high-minded and ambitious American Repertory Theater production was directed by Diane Paulus, the ART’s artistic director. The opera succeeds despite its trite plot, which attempts to humanize the epic persona of Whitman by concocting a wayward encounter between the poet and a scheming love interest. Yet it achieves poignancy and depth as a series of richly nuanced arias, duets and ensemble scenes that render what it’s like to be forgotten, isolated, and wounded in a war zone, or in the aftermath of war, as a wounded veteran.

Underscoring the elemental sense of crossing worlds and boundaries is the angular, geometric set by Tom Pye, complemented by David Zinn’s earth-toned costumes and Jennifer Tipton’s subtle lighting. Shifting between

moments of havoc and serenity are projections

by Fin Ross conjuring churning waters, flames and destruction as well as the moon, sun and stars. Choreography by Jill Johnson echoes the geometry of the set, as four dancers interlock in parallel lines, the better to set off the arabesque lyricism of an embrace.

Aucoin composed and wrote Crossing and for its world premiere conducted the production’s orchestra, A Far Cry, a renowned collective based in Jamaica Plain.

Accompanying arias as well as rich choral interludes, the 26 players comprised 13 musicians on strings, nine wind instrumentalists and four percussionists.

Civil War as inspiration

Throughout the production, which runs for 100 minutes without intermission, the many vocal and instrumental threads of Aucoin’s gorgeous music shimmers with expressive textures. Choral and solo passages intertwine with orchestral accompaniment that varies from droning electronic tones and techno drumming to lyrical flute melodies, tuned to the emotional timbre and tempo of scenes rendering moments of confession, transgression, grief and forgiveness.

At age 25, Aucoin (Harvard College ’12) already has an international career as a composer and guest conductor with some of the

world’s most renowned orchestras. Paulus invited him to write an opera after she heard his undergraduate opera on American poet Hart Crane.

Crossing is the fourth world premiere produced by the ART, Harvard’s professional theater, as a participant in the National Civil War Project, a collaborative endeavor of multiple educational and arts institutions to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Other new productions include the Suzan-Lori Parks play, Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3).

Search for meaning

Drawing from Whitman’s poems and the journal he kept while volunteering as a nurse to soldiers during the Civil War, Aucoin imagines Whitman not only as the all-embracing poet but as a man at a crossroad in life. Like Dante, one of Whitman’s inspirations, who in The Divine Comedy journeys through purgatory and hell to reach paradise, Aucoin’s Whitman enters hell — war — and finds himself in the purgatory of “a hospital of souls half torn from their bodies.”

After two years tending to the infirmary’s men, Aucoin’s Whitman asks himself, “Why can I not leave? What is it that I am looking for?”

Whitman regarded opera not as an elite entertainment but rather as an urgent and epic art form. So does Aucoin, who in a program essay writes, “opera is a primal union of animal longing as expressed in sound.”

Resembling the poet as photographed by Civil War chronicler Mathew Brady with his silver leonine mane and beard, Rod Gilfry brings a majestic baritone and warm dignity to the role of Walt Whitman.

The 19 members of the cast, all strong singers and actors, include the 11 men in the ensemble who are the soldiers, each a distinctive and unique presence on the stage.

Tenor Alexander Lewis excels as the

See CROSSING, page 20

From the hallowed halls of the courtroom in CBS’ The Good Wife to the glamorous New York club scene and the lucrative drug trade in New York City comes the television drama Power from creator, executive producer and show runner, Courtney Kemp Agboh.

Now entering its second season, Power is based on the life of Curtis “50 Cent”Jackson, who serves as executive producer and has a recurring role on the series.

The television drama tells the story of James ‘Ghost’ St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick), a wealthy New York City nightclub owner, husband and father, who also happens to be head of one of the biggest drug networks in New York. With dreams of building an empire with his nightclub, named Truth, as his foundation, Ghost’s family and businesses all start coming unraveled as he attempts to leave his criminal past behind and go legit.

Kemp Agboh grew up in Westport, Conn., and graduated from Brown in 1998 with a B.A. in English literature and a master’s degree, also in English lit, from Columbia University. Before her television writing career took off, she was living in New York and writing for GQ, Vibe and Marie Claire magazines. Prior to creating Power, Kemp Agboh was a writer, producer and supervising producer on the CBS drama, The Good Wife. Her first big break came as a staff writer for The Bernie Mac Show in 2005.

In a recent phone interview with the Banner, Kemp Agboh chatted about the origin of Power, on casting Omari Hardwick and the true meaning of the word diversity.

How did the idea for the show come about?

Courtney Kemp Agboh: It’s actually a combo platter between me and 50 because it really comes from some of 50’s life story. I’m not sure you can tell some specifics, South Jamaica Queens, a

See POWER, page 16

IF YOU WATCH Power will premiere on Saturday, June 6th at

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going from being just a married woman to a mom. It complicates your life, it enriches your life, it makes your life way more difficult, and yet the rewards are sort of crazy.

continued from page 15 day in the life, all that stuff, and it’s also my father, who was a very quirky Buffalo, New Yorker and grew to be a huge advertising executive. Even though the hustle is not the same, trust me, advertising is a hustle. It’s very much about coming from the American Dream for a black man and all the different ways that it can be realized.

The show itself almost feels almost like it’s a movie. It’s gritty. I love the backdrop, the colors. Everything seems so real, almost bigger than life. How were you able to create that world and make it so much bigger?

CKA: Part of is that my producers are amazing. David Knoller, who was with us for the first two seasons, and of course the money that Starz puts into it to allow us to do that. The authenticity definitely comes from 50 in terms of being able to ask him, ‘How would this play?’ ‘How would these people talk?’ This season he’s in more of the episodes that as a result he’s on set.

[She laughs]. There’s a definite authenticity check there. But the grittiness of the world, the kind of realism of the world, all comes from that, all comes from the collaboration.

Did you have Omari Hardwick in mind for the role of Ghost as you were writing the script?

CKA: No, I had no idea who

Getting back to Ghost’s character. As I was watching the series, one of the main themes that stood out for me is the struggle between being true to yourself and finding who you really are, and also then how do you relate that to the people around you who want you to stay the same?

PHOTO COURTESY OF STARZ

James “Ghost” St. Patrick, owner of Truth nightclub and one of the biggest drug distributors in NYC (played by Omari Hardwick), and Tommy Egan his partner in the drug trade (played by Joseph Sikora) in a scene from Power. it was going to be. At some point it was actually going to be 50 who was going to play the part.

Omari, he popped. It’s funny; I didn’t write it for him, then we started the casting. I had this binder and it still exists somewhere. This binder I put together has all these casting ideas for the show. He was at the top because he projects the intelligence, the sex appeal, the violence, the grit and all those things we need for the character.

He’s been able to show vulnerability and sometimes uncertainty in his role. How are you able to balance all the sides of a character like this? He’s neither good nor bad. It’s all these shades of grey. Is that a conscious effort on your part?

CKA: It’s absolutely a conscience effort. I think when you

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take a character and you really base it on some level on yourself because Ghost is the character most like me in the show. Obviously, I’m not a murdering drug dealer. [She laughs.] I’m very busy running the show so I had to put down my murdering and drug dealing. The thing about him is that because I write him very much like me, I allow the audience into his emotional inner life as much as I can. That’s where that vulnerability comes from. He’s male but there’s a lot of female in him and I think that’s part of what takes place.

How has the adjustment been for you going from writer to show runner?

CKA: Oh, honey. How long do you have? Being a boss is a big adjustment and I liken it to the same sort of issues and stuff around

CKA: Absolutely. It’s interesting because you’ve obviously really done your homework in watching the show. That’s one of the thematic elements that Ghost is struggling with; people who want him to stay the same. We’ll definitely see. Not that people expect him to stay the same now because they’ve been hearing this stuff about the club and going legit for a whole season, but that people want him to go back.

One of the things I like about the Power is that both the men and the women are very strong on the show.

What can we expect from Tasha and Angela in season two?

CKA: It’s more growth. Tasha has had to grow up over the first season. She wasn’t a full adult. So now we see the more adult Tasha.

We see her struggling with that adolescence. As for Angela, her struggle is incredibly intense.

She is so caught up with a very obvious conflict as the season goes forward in season 2. I’m not going to say to much more about

that. I’m sure you can guess.

That requires her to be a strong woman and she’ll handle herself in a certain way.

The other wonderful thing about the show is the diversity in the cast which seems to be the big buzzword these days on television. Is that also reflected in the writers’ room?

CKA: Oh, absolutely. I want to be very clear about something. The word diverse does not mean ‘of color.’ People are using that word to mean ‘of color’ and that’s actually not what the word means. I’m not correcting you as much as I’m saying it to answer your question.

Diversity means a lot of different people. My show is written by a lot of different people. My writers’ room is black, is white, it’s male, it’s female. There’s a guy in there who is Serbian who grew up partially in the war in Sarajevo. I use him as an example because on paper he’s a white male but he’s someone who grew up in a war. That is really applicable to Ghost, and Kanan and Tommy in terms of what their life was on the street. It’s not a one-to-one. And, I guess that’s something that really frustrates me sometimes with those questions.

The writers’ room is very diverse in terms of black, white and Latin, everything. We have all different kinds of people. That’s the answer to your question in the basic sense.

The way that I hire writers is I hire people who are different from me.

That doesn’t mean different from me racially or in terms of gender but it means people who have other skills.

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Berklee College of Music Summer in the City series Jazz at the Fort

n Bill Pierce, Sunday, August 2 n J azz at the Fort is a free annual concert held in Roxbury. This year’s concert will be held at Marcella Park. In the event of rain, the concert will move to the Mainstage Theater in the Media Arts Center at Roxbury Community College.

Brewer Plaza

n Witness Matlou - June 1-5 nA lexander Anderson August 31-September 4 n The Brewer Fountain, given to the city in 1868 by Gardner Brewer, is one of the most memorable features in the historic Boston Common. Every workday this summer there will be a Berklee pianist playing lunchtime music on the solar-powered piano underneath the fountain. On Thursdays at 5:00 p.m., the week’s featured pianist will also perform with a trio.

Institute of Contemporary Art

n Wambura Mitaru - July 30 n Join the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) and Berklee for the ninth year of HarborWalk Sounds on ICA Free Thursday Nights at 6:00

Alexander Anderson p.m. Located in a breathtaking waterfront building, the ICA is one of Boston’s most popular summertime destinations for visual art and performance.

Experience the museum’s dynamic exhibitions, then head to the ICA’s outdoor grandstand to enjoy standout talent from Berklee.

Prudential Center

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Swingin’ in the Fens

n Patrice Williamson - July 15 n The sound of jazz will fill the Fenway area at Swingin’ in the Fens, the annual free concert presented by Berklee in partnership with the Boston Parks and Recreation Department’s ParkARTS. The concert takes place at Ramler Park, a jewel

of the Fenway neighborhood located at 130 Peterborough Street. Picnics and folding chairs are encouraged, and the event is wheelchair accessible.

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n Charles Overton, July 15 n Established in 1848, the Boston Public Library was the first

large free municipal library in the United States. Today, this “palace for the people” houses 23 million items and attracts visitors and researchers from around the world. Come by on Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m.

(June-August) to hear a wide variety of Berklee performers in the library’s courtyard.

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World-renowned trumpeter and composer discusses music Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective are currently on tour

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

A four-time Grammy award winner, Terence Blanchard has been making music for more than 30 years. The multi-talented musician is also a jazz trumpeter, arranger, band leader and a film score composer.

Blanchard first burst onto the music scene in 1980 with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and then worked with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers before embarking on a solo recording career in 1991. That same year, he began his collaboration with director Spike Lee and has written the score for every one of Lee’s films including Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Get On The Bus and Inside Man. His recent film project includes scoring the Kevin Costner film Black Or White starring Costner and Octavia Spencer.

Over the course of his stellar career, Blanchard has recorded more than 30 albums. His latest musical effort includes the album Breathless with his new quintet, The E-Collective performing original material and covers of jazz vocalist

ON THE WEB Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective are currently on tour. For a complete schedule of venues and dates for, visit www.terenceblanchard.com. and pianist Les McCann, singer and songwriter Hank Williams and Coldplay for Blue Note Records. The album, which was released on May 26, also features guest vocals from Maroon 5’s PJ Morton.

In addition to the release of his new album, the musician was recently named as a visiting scholar

by Berklee College of Music where he’ll work with students in the Jazz Composition department this fall.

Blanchard also will work in the Film Scoring and Brass departments, and for the Berklee Global Jazz Institute.

Currently on tour, Blanchard spoke to the Banner by phone recently about his upcoming role as a visiting scholar at Berklee, his mentor Clark Terry and the inspiration behind his new album Breathless.

How did the visiting professor collaboration with Berklee come about?

Terence Blanchard: I was there

last year for a composer’s conference that Eric Gould had put together. In talking to Eric and George Clinton they made mention of it and it kind of went from there. They asked me if I was interested, and I thought, sure.

I saw what had been going on with Berklee and I had always been impressed with the school. It seems like the school has kicked it into a whole other gear now.

As a visiting scholar does that mean you’re teaching as well as working on your own projects?

TB: It’s more of me coming in on a monthly basis and working with students on their jazz composition, compositions and their performance.

Last year I saw the documentary on Clark Terry and I was just blown away by the man. Was he one of your idols or a mentor?

TB: Oh, he was like a father figure to me. Clark Terry was generous. First of all he was a genius and a great musician but he was a generous person. He was the type of person that always cared about individuals as you saw in the documentary. Whenever I saw him he was

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Terence Blanchard always giving me a musical lesson whether he was trying to or not. He was always genuinely concerned about my welfare and anybody else’s.

He was just a great person.

Can you tell me what the inspiration was behind Breathless?

TB: Breathless is all about everything that’s going on in our country right now with our youth and law enforcement — things that are happening around the country. I think there are obvious issues that we’ve forgotten about but haven’t paid as much attention to as we should, and we’re starting to see those things come to a head. I think it’s time for us not to just to take a look at it. We have to take action. That’s the thing. When I was putting all of this music together it was one story after another about somebody being killed by a police officer. At a certain point, like the old saying goes, a million hearts can’t be wrong. I thought it was important for us to make our own musical commentary about all of this and hopefully change some hearts and minds.

Hopefully we’ll get to a point where we can change policy and laws. When people are accountable for their actions, no matter who they are, things will change.

A lot of music has coincided with movements much like Motown and the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Can music help to spark the change that’s needed?

minds because that’s what happened to me. That’s the reason why I’m a musician. The first time I heard John Coltrane play Alabama it was the four little girls that were killed there. I was extremely moved by the music and by his representation of emotion and sorrow that seemed to represent what was going on in the country.

How do you keep it fresh, bouncing between being a composer, an arranger and a musician, and reflecting who you really are?

TB: The first thing I have to say is, stay socially conscious. There are things that are happening in our society all day, every day. There are millions of stories to be told and there are lives and inspirations for a number of pieces of art, a number of pieces of music to be created. You have to keep your mind and your ears and your hearts open. That’s where you find inspiration.

Which is your favorite Spike Lee movie that you’ve created a composition for?

TB: It’s hard to say. With Spike I think all of his stories are unique. For me when I look at him, I look at our growth as artists together. Miracle at St. Anna means one thing to me, while Inside Man means something totally different, and Malcolm X, it means like the start of it all.

What has held the relationship that you and Spike have together?

TB: Well, art and music have always played a role in our society.

It’s always either helped change thought or helped document actions. In this case I definitely think that music can change hearts and

TB: I think we’ve grown together. He’s allowed me to grow in vision that’s the main thing. The main thing is not only do we have a common language and common artistic minds but we’ve been growing in all of it.

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Three plans for Dudley Square land plot Developers showcase ideas: all mixed-use, but with different visions

By ELIZA DEWEY

A Roxbury community meeting last week gave Dudley Square residents the chance to weigh in on three different proposals for the development of a parcel of vacant city-owned land. While all three proposals — from Waldwin Group, Urbanica Inc., and Placetailor — were for mixed-use developments that combined residential and commercial uses, they offered up significantly different visions for the property and the surrounding neighborhood.

The land in question is located at the intersection of Washington and Bartlett streets, across from the B-2 police station. It is known as the Archer-Bonell site and consists of 7 vacant parcels totaling 14,037 square feet.

Rental housing and commerce

A proposal by the Waldwin Group would include two groundfloor commercial properties, one of them a Dunkin Donuts.

The Waldwin Group is an independently owned and operated franchisee of the Dunkin Donuts company. The group has worked since 1992 on Dunkins properties throughout the Boston area, including locations in Dudley Square, Egleston Square, Ruggles Station and Logan Airport.

Waldwin founder and CEO Clayton Turnbull said he could not comment on whether the proposed Dunkins shop for the new mixed-use building would replace the Dunkins that currently sits in Dudley Square Station.

He said the new store would employ 70 people.

The second commercial occupant for the Waldwin proposal has not yet been determined.

The building would have three floors of residential units for a total of 12 units: nine two-bedroom units and three one-bedrooms. Fifteen percent of them would be marketed as affordable in accordance with the city’s Inclusionary Development Policy requirements. He estimated the market-rate apartments would run for about $1,800 for a one-bedroom and $2,000 for a two-bedroom.

Turnbull said he designed the apartments to be spacious, in accordance with what he would want if he were a tenant.

“I want to give [the tenants]

Crossing

continued from page 15 haunted and wily John Wormley, who attracts and deceives Whitman. Davone Tines (Harvard College ’09) injects a rich bass baritone and natural self-possession into his role as Freddie Stowers, who escapes slavery at age 13 and then returns to the South a decade later to fight as a Union soldier.

Soprano Jennifer Zetlan, the Messenger, meets the challenge of announcing the war’s end, whirling in a crisp dress and singing at high speed.

In a cleverly staged introduction, when the wounded Wormley arrives at the hospital, he reveals his fears to the audience but hides the facts of his complicated past

some room,” he said.

The building would come with 15 parking spots, which would be utilized by both renters and Dunkins customers.

When discussing the construction phase, Turnbull underscored his deep roots in the community to say he was confident the project would be able to meet the city’s diversity requirements.

He added, however that he couldn’t necessarily commit to a level higher than that. “I have hesitancy when it comes to talking about exceeding the city’s requirement when it comes to people of color,” he said. He added that the project likely would be non-union.

to figure some of that out,” he said.

In terms of diversity concerns, Zahedi sounded a confident note.

“I think we can basically promise 50 percent minority and 50 percent Boston residents,” he said of the construction process. “We feel very confident we can achieve 50 percent.”

He noted that the women’s quota would probably remain at the 10 percent mandated level, saying it is difficult to get higher numbers than that when dealing with the building trades.

Home ownership and biz incubator

A second proposal from Urbanica, Inc. would provide a mix of housing and a community arts space. That space, which Urbanica president Kamran Zahedi said he would sell to local nonprofit Discover Roxbury for one dollar, would serve as a kind of multipurpose center that local artists could use to showcase work, have rehearsals, and sell their products.

The Urbanica plan would have 24 residential units: 12 one-bedrooms, 8 studios and 4 two-bedrooms. Zahedi said that while they are currently committed to the city-mandated 15 percent affordability rate, they are looking at ways to further increase that percentage.

These include grants offered through the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Department of Neighborhood Development. Planners estimated that the market-rate rents would be somewhere between $1,200 and $1,900 for a one-bedroom.

The plan is estimated to create 20 construction jobs and 45 permanent jobs, including those tied to Discover Roxbury.

While Urbanica’s plan raised some audience questions about the impact on traffic — particularly on nights when Discover Roxbury hosts functions there — the developers said they did not anticipate such problems.

“Most people take the T or bike [to Discover Roxbur y events],” said Derek Lumpkins, executive director of Discover Roxbury. He acknowledged, however, the need for further planning.

“As it gets denser, we’ll have

In contrast to those two proposals, a third plan from Placetailor features only housing for purchase, with a stated commitment to affordability.

“Ownership — we kept hearing that word,’” Placetailor founding member and owner Declan Keefe said of the group’s previous conversations with community members. “We asked ourselves, ‘How can we figure out how to help people with that?’”

The space would have 27 units for sale — 14 of them (52 percent) would be sold at market rate.

The most expensive within this group would be the three-bedroom units, which would go for approximately $335,000.

Of the remaining units, four would be sold at 80 percent of the Area Median Income ($233,000 for a 3-bedroom) and nine would be sold at 100 percent of the Area Median Income ($299,700 for a 3-bedroom).

The commercial space for this third project would be a business innovation center, similar to the innovation districts that are quickly becoming popular in Dudley Square and across other parts of Boston, like the Seaport District.

The group does not yet have a specific commercial tenant in mind, which Keefe said was part of the group’s commitment to community process.

“There’s no specified tenant because we’d like to work with the community to find the right tenant,” he said.

He added, however, that they would focus on getting someone who would stay in the space long-term. “[People] are creating a business and then leaving,” he said,

from Whitman.

Yet Aucoin’s Whitman and Wormley are not characters whose struggles we come to identify with or care about. The poet remains an optimist with a great soul, forgiving and generous, despite a wrong turn. Wormley remains unlikeable almost to the end, when he gains one of the opera’s most lyrical speeches, Whitman-like in its joyous lust for life.

As grand as “Crossing” is in its staging and music, a few details strike a false note. His hand wounded, Wormley gets Whitman to write a letter for him that in code reveals the location and vulnerability of the hospital. But would a hard-pressed Confederate regiment bother waging an attack on a dozen dying men? Aucoin gives Freddie Stowers a prophetic

speech with hints of 9/11, a heavyhanded and needless touch.

The production is at its best when, leaving aside the encounter between Wormley and Whitman, it renders the experience of people marooned from life by war. Here, its soundings run deep.

Davone Tines, as Freddie, delivers one of the most riveting scenes.

Returning to tell the men that the war grinds on, with 20,000 men killed in just one day’s battle, he slowly sings an aria of fewer than 50 words, and then with a keening falsetto, collapses in grief.

When expressing the suffering and yearning of people isolated by war, Aucoin’s opera demonstrates the power of language and music to voice human experience, in all of its light and darkness, connecting people across time.

Rental housing and community arts

citing rising local rents. “We want to create an office space where they can potentially stay. We’re trying to create wealth creation.”

The project is estimated to create 20 permanent jobs.

However, that presentation elicited some frustration from community members in attendance when Keefe would not give a firm number in terms of hiring goals. He said that while he felt confident in the company’s current diversity numbers, he didn’t want to promise anything beyond that, out of a desire to avoid giving empty promises.

“I’ ll say 50 percent [people of color] because we’re already there,” he said. “I can’t promise anything beyond that because I don’t have that [currently].”

His explanation, however, did not sit well with some in attendance who wanted to hear a firmer estimate that could inspire their confidence. “ Your s tating a number demonstrates your commitment, and without that, it’s nothing,” said one audience member.

Another man who said he had worked on the new Bolling building agreed.

“We got a lot of contractors saying ‘We’ll do our best faith effort,’ and it didn’t mean anything,” he said.

Although that conversation focused on the hiring goals of Placetailor — mostly, it seemed, in reaction to Keefe’s insistence on not providing a number — none of the three projects have promised a diversity quotient for construction beyond the fifty percent mark, which Keefe did say he could deliver.

Competing visions

Another conversation sparked during the Waldwin presentation occurred when some in the meeting raised questions about the suitability of the chosen commercial enterprise for the neighborhood.

Local resident Kai Grant questioned whether Dunkin Donuts was the appropriate choice for the neighborhood, citing concerns about dietary health, environmental impact from litter — especially styrofoam cups, and relatively low wages.

“I don’t see this having any community benefits besides benefitting you,” said Grant.

Turnbull responded to such concerns in turn.

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change, there are approximately 100,000 Bostonians who are ‘food insecure,’ meaning they do not have adequate access to healthy food. The report said the recommendations would address such day-to-day concerns in addition to potential emergencies like inclement weather.

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“We won’t be having styrofoam cups,” he said.

He added that Dunkins has a menu with items deemed to be healthy, but that ultimately it was up to consumers to decide what to buy.

“This is America, you can choose,” he said.

When pressed by Grant and a few others on the wage issue, including whether any Dunkins employees would be able to afford the building’s units, Turnbull said that such individuals would likely be able to afford rent in one of the two affordable units in the building.

“We’ve never paid minimum wage,” he added. “Every small business in the country is struggling trying to figure out how to [meet new mandated requirements]. We see $15 per hour coming.”

While some might find it surprising to hear Dunkin Donuts described as a “small business,” Turnbull clarified for the Banner that 99 percent of Dunkins restaurants operate as franchises.

Each location sets its own wages and product prices independent of the corporate structure, he said.

Massachusetts’ new minimum wage law enacted in January increased the minimum wage to $9 per hour, with increases each year until it reaches $11 in January 2017.

Turnbull added that he didn’t see complaints from those worked for the company. “People aren’t running away from us,” he said.

Others in attendance said that they had come to express their support for Turnbull because of their faith in the Waldwin name.

“You need a company who’s been around for a long time and supports those who no one else wants to hire,” said one person.

“The Waldwin Group has been here for years — you gotta support people who have been here for years.”

“I’d hate to see them lose, especially because of their commitment to our young people,” added another woman.

Some, however, were less convinced.

“The implication that Dunkin Donuts will leave Dudley if they don’t get this [project] bears examination,” said one man.

Turnbull was quick to reply.

“We do close stores,” he said, referencing the now-closed Dunkin Donuts in Mattapan across from Simco’s. “I’m not saying that’s what we’re going to do, but just to let you know.” and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank, expressed excitement about the study, for which the GBFB was interviewed.

“We are grateful for being included on Boston’s Food Resilience Steering Committee and we are excited about the opportunity of furthering our work with the city to implement the ICIC recommendations in order to insure and improve food access for all of the city’s residents,” she said via a statement.

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BOSTON REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY PUBLIC NOTICE PROPOSED MODIFICATION TO SOUTH END URBAN RENEWAL PLAN, PROJECT NO. MASS. R-56 FOR PARCEL P-25 Public Notice is hereby given that the Boston Redevelopment Authority (‘BRA”) will consider at its scheduled meeting on Thursday, June 11, 2015, starting at 5:30 P.M. in the BRA Board Room – Room 900, 9th Floor, Boston City Hall, a proposed modification to the South End Urban Renewal Plan (the “Plan”) regarding (1) the creation of Parcel P-25; and (b) the determination that the permitted land use for Parcel P-25 will be open space. Parcel P-25 is comprised of the parcels located at 12 Taylor Street, 14 Taylor Street, 5 Milford Street, 7 Milford Street and 17 Taylor Street and together are commonly known as “Watson Park.”

This Public Notice is being provided in accordance with a certain “Conciliation Agreement” be and among the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the BRA and others, dated as of January 16, 2001.

Teresa Polhemus Secretary, Boston Redevelopment Authority Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15P0575GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304

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The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: May 18, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

DOCKET NO. SU15P1061PM

In the matter of: Josephine Silcott Respondent (Person to be Protected/Minor) Of: Dorcester, MA

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 06/18/2015. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: May 18, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU15P1060GD

SUFFOLK Division

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Josephine Silcott Of Dorchester, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Brenda Milewski of Puyallup, WA and Alson T. Silcott of Dorchester, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Josephine Silcott is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Brenda Milewski of Puyallup, WA and Alson T. Silcott of Dorchester, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 06/18/2015. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

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The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage under G.L. c.

208, Section 1 B. The Complaint is on file at the Court.

An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Paulette Twitty Evans, 31 Torrey Street, Apt. 1, Dorchester, MA 02124 your answer, if any, on or before 07/30/2015. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

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Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF CONSERVATOR OR OTHER PROTECTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO G.L c. 190B, §5-304 & §5-405 To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Alson T. Silcott of Dorchester, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Josephine Silcott is in need of a Conservator or other protective order and requesting that Alson T. Silcott of Dorchester, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Conservator to serve Without Surety on the bond.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is disabled, that a protective order or appointment of a Conservator is necessary, and that the proposed conservator is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 06/18/2015. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14D2622DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Sergo Mendes

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Marie Eddy Alexandre

To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage under G.L. c.

208, Section 1 B. The Complaint is on file at the Court.

An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Sergo Mendes, 11 Woodland St., Everett, MA 02149 your answer, if any, on or before 07/30/2015. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: May 15, 2015

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: May 18, 2015

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

In the matter of Arthur C. Talley Of Mattapan, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Edith H. Talley of Mattapan, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Arthur C. Talley is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Edith H. Talley of Mattapan, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

To the Defendant:

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing

Docket No. SU15P1067EA Estate of Richard Michael Kearns Also Known As Richard M. Kearns Date of Death 10/24/14

Claretta Taylor Pam

To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner John J. Kearns of Taunton, MA. John J. Kearns of Taunton, MA has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.

The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.

Docket No. SU15D0785DR

The Complaint is on file at the Court.

An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Claretta Taylor Pam, 44 Higland St., Roxbury, MA 02119-1176 your answer, if any, on or before 07/30/2015. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: May 18, 2015

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing vs.

Rolando Keith Pam

The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c. 208, Section 1 B.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Debbie Williams-Aberdeen

vs.

To the Defendant:

INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15D0706DR

In the interests of Jabari A.Z. Wright of Dorchester, MA Minor

Andrew Aberdeen

To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c. 208, Section 1 B.

NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor 1.

The Complaint is on file at the Court.

An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

Docket No. SU14P0829GD

NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 04/09/2014 by Lynetta Beebe of Dorchester, MA and Jaliesha V. Beebe of Dorchester, MA will be held 06/23/2015 09:00 AM Review Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114 ~ Probation Department.

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You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Debbie WilliamsAberdeen, 53 Marcella Street #2, Roxbury, MA 02119-1176 your answer, if any, on or before 07/16/2015. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to:

File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.

Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: May 1, 2015

3.

Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.

4.

Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15D0980DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Paulette Twitty Evans

vs.

Steve Mervin Evans

THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice.

Date: May 5, 2015

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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Docket No. SU15P1151GD

In the interests of Natilio Aron Carrasquillo Milsap of Dorchester, MA Minor

REAL LEGAL ESTATE to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.

THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice.

File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.

3.

Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.

Date: May 15, 2015

4.

Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.

NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 05/14/2015 by Aubreona Caren Milsap of Dorchester, MA will be held 07/30/2015 09:00 AM Guardianship of a Minor Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114 ~ Probation Department.

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2.

File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.

3.

Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.

Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right

4.

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Docket No. SU14P1883GD

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NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 08/05/2014 by Catherine P. Bates of Dorchester, MA will be held 06/11/2015 10:30 AM Review Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114 ~ Probation Department.

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by Codman Square NDC, but will primarily be based in Mattapan (at ABCD Mattapan). Key responsibilities include identifying transit oriented real estate development (TOD) and economic development opportunities in Mattapan; provide direct day-to-day project management services from project planning and financial structuring through construction completion and closeout; and produce funding proposals to public and private funders in support of developing TOD real estate and economic development projects. Bachelor’s degree in in real estate development, community based urban planning, or closely related fields with 3-5 years relevant experience; demonstrated real estate project management experience; thorough understanding of real estate deal structuring, finance, design, and construction management; strong critical thinking skills and negotiating skills and ability to manage conflicting points of view and bring about positive resolutions; excellent written and verbal communications skills and solid knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, including Excel required. Fluent in Spanish or Haitian Creole a plus; experience working in low and moderate income communities of color a plus, ability to engage people of diverse backgrounds. Send resume and cover letter to, Executive Director, CSNDC, 587 Washington Street, Dorchester, MA 02124 or email: tiffany@csndc.com by June 26, 2015.

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SATURDAY BLUE HILLS RESERVATION Moderate walk, hilly terrain, 3+ miles. Loop around the base of Great Blue Hill. Meet at the Trailside Museum north parking lot at 1904 Canton Ave. in Milton. Saturday, June 6 at 1pm. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites. Some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

PARKARTS WATERCOLOR PAINTING WORKSHOPS The Boston Parks and Recreation Department has announced that its popular summer series of ParkARTS Watercolor Painting Workshops will return during the month of June at five Boston locations.

Local art instructors welcome artists of all skill levels to join them and capture Boston’s historic parks in bloom. The free workshops include instruction and materials provided. All classes are held from 12-2pm weather permitting. This summer’s featured instructor is Brigid Watson, a Boston-based artist, writer, and educator represented by Hallspace Gallery in Boston and four eleven studio in Provincetown.

Watson holds a master’s degree from New York University and undergraduate degrees from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University.

She has taught art at numerous local institutions including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and the Eliot School. Dates and locations for the workshops are as follows: Boston Public Garden — Saturdays, June 6 & 13; Thomas M. Menino Park, 98 16th St., Charlestown — Sundays, June 7 & 14; Copley Square, Back Bay — Saturday, June 20; Kelleher Rose Garden, 70 Park Dr., Fenway — Sundays, June 21 & 28; Muddy River Round House, Riverway (opposite Short Street) — Saturday, June 27. For further information on the workshops and other ParkARTS programs, please call 617-635-4505 or visit the Parks Department online at www. cityofboston/parks or www.facebook.com/ bostonparksdepartment.

UPCOMING BLUE HILLS RESERVATION Moderate walk, hilly terrain, 3.5+ miles.

Wolcott Path to Breakneck Ledge to Chestnut Run and Border Path, return via Wolcott Path. Meet at the Blue Hills Headquarters staff parking lot at 695 Hillside St. in Milton.

Sunday, June 14 at 1pm. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks.

This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join.

Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers

are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites. Some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL The Boston Book Festival, celebrating the power of words, announces the full programming for its inaugural free kids’ festival HUBBUB: CREATIVE COMMOTION FOR KIDS, to be held Saturday, June 20, in Boston’s Copley Square. Including activities for kids and families of all ages, Hubbub offers a full day of fun-filled creativity, inventiveness, and exploration such as an author presentation by Mo Willems, workshops with Mitali Perkins, Esh Circus Arts, Urbanity Dance, and much more. Most events are free. There are a handful of presentations that require complimentary online registration. For more information visit www.bostonbookfest.org.

BLUE HILLS RESERVATION Easy walk, 2 miles. Loop around Houghton’s Pond and old Rte. 128. Meet at the Houghton’s Pond main parking lot at 840 Hillside St. in Milton. Saturday, June 20 at 1pm. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites. Some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

FESTIVAL BETANCES 2015 New England’s longest-running Latino Cultural Celebration; this 3 days festival will be held in the colorful Plaza Betances in Villa Victoria community of Boston’s South End neighborhood. Over 3,000 multi-cultural audience members attend during this weekend and enjoy musical and dance performances, ranging from local and regional acts to international Latin music icons. We invite you to save the date and for more information of this great event go to www.ibaboston.org/festival-betances/.

July 17 @ 6pm - July 19 @ 8pm, Plaza Betances, 100 West Dedham St., Boston.

Cost: Free.

ONGOING SPRING TOURS AT FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site (Olmsted NHS), located at 99 Warren Street in Brookline is offering regular tours of the historic Olmsted design office and Olmsted-designed grounds on Fridays and Saturdays at 10:00, 11:00, 1;00, 2:00, and 3:00 through June 21.

TUESDAY, JUNE 9

ABCD SOLUTION SERIES

Regionalization: The answer to gentrification without displacement? Can communities make the best use of federal funds to solve low-income housing obstacles? Panelists include: Chrystal Kornegay, Undersecretary, Massachusetts Department of Housing and Economic Development; Giles Li, Executive Director, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center; State Representative Jim O’Day (D-West Boylston); Jennifer Raitt, Assistant Director of Land Use & Chief Housing Planner, Metropolitan Area Planning Council. Moderator: Joe Kriesberg, President/CEO, Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations. ABCD Solution Series is a discussion forum that welcomes expert panelists, elected officials, and the public to discuss issues of social justice, education, poverty, health care, and housing among other topics. Tuesday, June 9, 3:305:30pm, ABCD, 178 Tremont St., Boston.

The tours take roughly 45 minutes, and admission is free. In addition, visitors are welcome to view self-guided exhibits on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12-4:00pm and Fridays and Saturdays from 9:30am - 4:00pm. For further information on Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, on-site tours, and other programs, please visit www.nps.gov/frla or call 617-566-1689 Monday through Saturday. The site is a 15-minute walk from the Brookline Hills Green Line MBTA station and also walkable from the MBTA’s #60 bus that runs between Kenmore Station and Chestnut Hill. Limited parking is available on-site for those coming by car. Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site was the Brookline, Massachusetts home and office of America’s premier parkmaker and the designer of the Emerald Necklace park system. Now administered by the National Park Service as one of its 407 sites around the United States, Olmsted NHS was for nearly a century the headquarters of the first full-scale professional landscape architecture office in the United States. The site maintains the Olmsted Archives, a collection of the Olmsted firm’s plans, drawings, photographs, and other work product for thousands of landscapes around the continent.

BCNC QUINCY SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMS LEAP (Leadership, Enrichment, Arts Program) is a six-week program for rising 9th grade youth. Youth will have fun and meet new friends. The program is FREE at no cost and will provide enrichment activities, fieldtrips, project-based and educational workshops on leadership and transition to high school. Youlead Summer is a six-week program for high school youth (9th-12th grade). This program is FREE at no cost and youth can gain community service hours, learn about leadership, public speaking, meet new friends, and work on community projects. July 6 - August 14, 12-5pm, BCNC Quincy (Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Quincy), 275 Hancock St., Suite 200, Quincy (Across from North Quincy High School — next to McDonalds in North Quincy). RSVP: E-mail Catalina Tang at catalina.tang@bcnc.net or call 617-770-0091.

IN PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE: THE WEST END HOUSE Through August 22, The West End Museum will host a new exhibit in its Main Exhibit Hall. In Pursuit of Excellence: The West End House features artifacts, photographs, oral history video and memorabilia representing over 100 years. Among the club’s most distinguished alumni are Leon-

ard Nimoy and crooner Buddy Clark. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. The West End Museum is dedicated to the collection, preservation and interpretation of the history and culture of the West End neighborhood. The Museum’s permanent exhibit, “The Last Tenement,” highlights the immigrant history of the neighborhood through its decimation under Urban Renewal in 1959; two additional galleries feature rotating exhibits. The Museum is located near North Station at 150 Staniford St., Suite 7. Hours: Tuesday - Friday 12-5pm; Saturday 11am - 4pm.

Admission is free.

CONCERTS IN THE COURTYARD This summer, one of Boston’s most beautiful spaces will be filled with music in a free concert series Wednesdays at 6pm & Fridays at 12:30pm through August 28. The courtyard at the Central Library in Copley Square will spotlight musicians who represent a variety of genres, including jazz, classical, world and folk. The month of June features Wednesday performances

by Berklee College of Music students and alumni and Friday performances by independent artists from the Boston area.

The 2015 Concerts in the Courtyard series is generously sponsored by Deloitte and the Boston Public Library Foundation. The complete schedule is available at bpl.org/ concerts.

STAR GAZING AT THE OBSERVATORY The Public Open Night at the Observatory is a chance for people to observe the night sky through telescopes and binoculars and see things they otherwise might not get to see, and learn some astronomy as well. Wednesday nights from 8:309:30pm, weather permitting, Coit Observatory at Boston University, located at 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, right above the Astronomy Department. The stairwell to the Observatory is on the fifth floor right next to room 520. More Info: Call (617) 353-2630 for any questions.

1-3 YEAR OLD PLAYGROUPS With free play, circle time, and parent discussion, Playgroups are a wonderful place for you and your toddler to connect with each other and with other families.

Your child will develop social and emotional skills, early literacy, gross and fine motor skills, and experience art and sensory materials. This group is for parents and their children ages 1-3 years. Thursdays 9:30-11:30am, Georgetowne Homes Community Room, 400A Georgetowne Dr., Hyde Park. More Info: Visit http:// familynurturing.org/dropins/1-3-year-old-

playgroup-1; For more times and locations, visit http://familynurturing.org/programs/ parent-child-playgroups.

SHELBURNE COMMUNITY CENTER TEEN PROGRAM: “FREE” for teens ages 13 to 17 years old.

Homework Assistant, Computer Classes, Rock Wall Climbing, Field Trips, Sports and Recreation and much more. Hours: Monday - Thursday 2:30-7pm, Fridays 2:30-9pm.

For more information contact: Ricky Lambright or Tomeka Hall at 617-635-5213.

The John Shelburne Community Center is located at: 2730 Washington St., Roxbury.

BOSTON PARKS SUMMER FITNESS SERIES Free fitness classes in your neighborhood parks presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield in partnership with the Boston Parks and Recreation Department and the Boston Public Health Commission. Classes start in June and run through August.

MONDAYS: High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workout at Madison Park, Boston; Zumba at Christopher Columbus, North End; Salsa in the Park at Blackstone Park, South End. TUESDAYS: Tai Chi at Symphony Community Park, Boston; Yoga at Jamaica Pond Pinebank Promontory, Jamaica Plain; Zumba at Gertrude Howes, Roxbury.

WEDNESDAYS: Yoga at Harambee Park, Dorchester; Line Dancing @ Franklin Park, Dorchester. THURSDAYS: Yoga at Symphony Community Park. Boston; Yoga at The Frog Pond, Boston. FRIDAYS: Bootcamp @ Christopher Columbus Park, North End; Yoga at Clifford Park, Roxbury. For a full schedule of Boston Park Summer Fitness Series classes go to www.cityofboston.gov/ parks or www.bphc.org. For updates, follow @HealthyBoston, @BostonParksDept, and #BostonMoves on Twitter.

TODDLER DRUM CIRCLE Toddler Drum Circle series with Cornell Coley will run every Saturday during the school year. 9:30-10:30am. Songs, stories, puppets, drumming and cultural info! Ages 1–4 yrs old! Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St., Jamaica Plain. Contact: Cornell Coley www.afro latin.net 617-298-1790 cc@afrola tin.net. Cost: $8, $5 for sibling.

FREE ADULT COMPUTER CLASSES Times: Monday & Wednesday - 12:302:30pm and 6-8pm, Tuesday & Thursday 12:30-2:30pm and 6:30-8:30pm. For more information contact: Owen Corbin at 617635-5213. The John Shelburne Community Center is located at: 2730 Washington St., Roxbury.

The Community Calendar has been established to list community events at no cost. The admission cost of events must not exceed $10. Church services and recruitment requests will not be published. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE OF PUBLICATION. To guarantee publication with a paid advertisement please call advertising at (617) 261-4600 ext. 7799 or email ads@bannerpub.com. NO LISTINGS ARE ACCEPTED BY TELEPHONE, FAX OR MAIL. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Deadline for all listings is Friday at noon for publication the following week. E-MAIL your information to: calendar@bannerpub.com. To list your event online please go to www.baystatebanner.com/ events and list your event directly. Events listed in print are not added to the online events page by Banner staff members. There are no ticket cost restrictions for the online postings.