Tag Archives: mattapan

The Silence Of The Neponset River

June 23, 2020 – 7:53 pm

The Neponset River runs from the Foxborough marshes and the stream drops over two-hundred feet over the first twelve miles through the towns of Walpole, Sharon, Norwood, Canton, Westwood and Dedham before reaching Mattapan, which the First People called ‘a good place to sit’. Blue Hill Avenue crosses the river over a stone bridge before […]

By Peter | Posted in photo-romans, Sin, south shore | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

AX IN HAND by Peter Nolan Smith

June 10, 2020 – 4:55 pm

My mother had spent her honeymoon on Bermuda. Every winter my parents had vacationed in the Caribbean and each July my father rented a Harwichport cottage for a week. My mother loved the ocean. On summer weekends they loaded his six children into the Ford Station wagon for a drive to the beach. Massachusetts had […]

By Peter | Posted in 60s, boston, friends, Life, music, race, rock, semi-fiction, youth | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Paragon Park Memories

May 8, 2020 – 10:00 am

Funny how the places you loved disappeared and then come back as memories. Paragon Park was one of them. Gone in the Here-Now, but always there in the Here-Before. To recapture a taste of Paragon Park, please go to the following URL

By Peter | Posted in boston, family, history, New England | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Dif Tor Heh Smusma

May 17, 2015 – 9:31 pm

Leonard Nimoy hailed from Boston’s West End shtel. His Russian father cut hair in Mattapan Square. Tired of giving us a buzz-cut my father drove my older brother and me to the Terminal Barber Shop next to the terminus of the trolley line. I can’t recall any other barber along Blue Hill Avenue. A native […]

By Peter | Posted in boston, RIP | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)