Memoirs of a South Boston Non-Native
2011-03-02T12:00:16-05:00Recently, I was asked by a family friend how I ended up in South Boston. Â The short answer is the Red Line. Â The real answer (which is much longer), involves [...]
Incredibile Soup
2011-03-02T11:56:23-05:00The recipe for this incredible soup can never be duplicated. It was never written down or passed on orally. As the years pass, my memory of the delicious soup almost [...]
Whatever happened to the old-school Southie dogs?
2011-03-02T11:50:54-05:00You know the ones that just roamed around the streets without a leash and with no owner in sight. Â When you came across one these dogs, you didn't think it [...]
Southie #1
Maureen Dahill2011-03-02T11:37:13-05:00C'mon. You've seen it. If you grew up in Southie when I did, (circa 70's, 80's) you saw this written everywhere.It was on school notebooks, buildings, walls, and mailboxes. I [...]
Summertime 1979-1980
2011-03-02T03:17:22-05:00School was out for summer and color TV was all the rage. Â Cable was still a couple of years away from Boston. Video games were in their infancy and cell [...]
Memories of the Ollie Day Camp
2011-03-02T02:31:20-05:00When summer fades into fall, I am reminded of the summers we spent in South Boston during the 1970's and early 1980's.We had so many different experiences back then. How [...]
What Heather is Watching
Heather Foley2021-11-08T13:45:50-05:00I love TV. I know in grammar school we were all told by Sister So and So that it's not grammatically correct to say you love an inanimate object, but [...]