Word: italians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flux. "That's the whole point about the North End," Meyer says. "It's always been the place where newcomers went." Once those newcomers were English colonists; in the early to mid-nineteenth century they were Irish and Jewish immigrants, and by the end of that century they were Italian. Today they are what Meyer calls "hopeful yuppies," young people just out of college and on the move toward economic security...
...matter how much the North End may be changing, it retains a certain appealing air of Old World stability. As I walked down the quiet, brick-fronted streets, it seemed as though I was entering a timeless area. In the window of an Italian grocery store a cat lounged indolently, gazing uncuriously at passers-by. Off the main streets, narrow lanes wound out of sight, leading to concealed courtyards fronted by iron gates and hanging plants...
...colonial and the Italian heritage fuse on these narrow streets: Paul Revere's house in North Square is just doors away from a mouthwatering Italian restaurant. A bit further down the street stands the one-time home of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a powerful Boston political boss almost a century ago, and birthplace of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (mother of John, Robert, and Edward). Across the street is the site of Gov. Thomas Hutchinson's house, where angry colonists protested...
...time to leave, and I made my way back to Hanover Street. No North End visit is complete without sampling some of the Italian pastries in one of the neighborhood's many bakeries (besides, I'd promised my roommates I'd bring something back). So I went to Mike's Pastry, a big, crowded place with tables and counterhelp that calls everyone "honey", where you can buy bread the Old World way (not in a bag) and walk down the street munching...
...they had run away from the playground which abuts the Harbor, leaving only the grafitti-spattered concrete that marked the territory as Italian turf--the North...