Wednesday, December 1, 2010

A salute to Dorchester, Massachusetts! from our man in the field

A salute to Dorchester, Massachusetts!: "You may think you've never heard of Dorchester, but you have. It's Boston. To those who live there, it's called Dot for short. It is Boston through and through, more Bostonian in many ways than downtown.

It's not the North End where Wednesday is Prince spaghetti day. It's not the part where Mystic River was filmed (though much of it looks like that). It's not where Bunker Hill is or where Paul Revere set off on his midnight ride. The Boston Pops don't play in Dot. It's not where a lot of tourists go unless they are visiting the JFK Presidential Library. Some tourists visit. They are either the smart ones or the ones who leave from the wrong side of the JFK/UMASS T station. Either way, they enter the best part of Boston and when they get back on the Red Line they don't see Boston the same way again. They have seen its true, better nature. ..."
Whalehead King, we miss you.

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