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My dad grew up in a small part of Boston called Readville, located in the southern-most tip of Hyde Park between Dedham and Milton. He grew up playing baseball and hockey in the public parks of Readville with all of his friends. These friends, the…

In 2012, the founding of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra created a new standard of artistic excellence for musical youth, and offered a new education program in which young musicians could practice their craft in an orchestra centered on…

In my final paper I discuss the Green Line extension project, and the potential impact that I will have on Union Square, and Somerville as a whole. The interesting and unusual thing about Union Square, is that while this change in population has been…

The present project seeks to investigate how and to what extent public
transportation, understood as a space of daily convergence of diverse individuals and
communities, can be leveraged to promote social interaction and cohesion among diverse
and…

This paper discusses the recent addition of the topic of Boston’s court-ordered desegregation and the resulting busing riots into the Boston Public Schools history and social studies curriculum. It examines the reasons why the topic was not…