Eagle Feathers #24 – April 19th

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

It was the day that colonial Americans stopped procrastinating and threw off the oxen yoke that England had put on her for over 150 years. It was the day that both Middlesex farmers and Boston businessmen put their lives and their holdings on the line in a rebellion against the powerful British Empire.

Get all the details at Murat Recevik’s showing at Gallery 321.

By Sanjeev Selvarajah

“My new show, entitled All of those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain explores the re-purposing of discarded items into compositions that tell us a story about our past,” writes Murat Recevik.

Firefighter Tom Ross works to extinguish flames spreading in a rear wall of 68-70 Holland Street on April 16. – Photo by Somerville Fire Department.

On April 16 at  11:08 a.m. the Somerville Fire Department responded to fire in a three unit dwelling fire at 68-70 Holland Street. Firefighters discovered a fire burning in a first floor rear stairway ceiling which had burnt through a rear wall to a second floor porch. Flames also spread through ceiling and wall spaces to the upper floors in the rear of the building. Firefighters had to open up numerous walls and ceilings to extinguish the fire. Damage is estimated in excess of $100,000 and displaced occupants of all three apartments. One firefighter was treated for a facial laceration at the scene.  Firefighters cleared the scene at 1:06 p.m.

The cause of the fire has been determined to have been of electrical origin in the first floor rear stairway ceiling.

(from the Somerville Police Website)
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Somerville Police are monitoring the tragic events that occurred today near the end of the Boston Marathon. We are in touch with Boston Police and the Boston Regional Intelligence Center as well as other state and Federal agencies. We will render any assistance to our neighbors as needed. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency has requested people in the Boston area to limit cell phone use for now to allow emergency responders to use these cell phone lines. Please try to communicate non urgent communications via text or email. If you were at the Marathon today and have any photos or video near the finish line, please contact Somerville Police or Boston Police.

Boston PD tip line: 1-800-494-8477.

Somerville PD: 617-625-1600

238th anniversary of historic event to include colonial games, refreshments, visit by Paul Revere on horseback

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Ward 1 Alderman Maureen Bastardi, and the Somerville Historic Preservation Commission invite all residents and community members to the city’s 238^th annual Patriot’s Day celebration, to be held at Foss Park on Monday, April 15 from 10:00–11:30 a.m.  Co-sponsored by the Preservation Commission, Historic Somerville, the SomervilleMuseum, and East Somerville Main Streets, the day’s events will include Colonial games and songs, light refreshments, youth readings, and a visit from Paul Revere on horseback on his historic ride from Boston to Lexington through Somerville.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

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I was 16 in 1969 when I got a job at Woolworths in Davis Square. I was hired as a stock boy but graduated to the luncheonette counter. WT Grant and FW Woolworth were 5 and 10 cent stores, or “five and dimes” in the square. Those are the two, along with Savel’s in Ball Square, that I grew up with.