UMI & HARDY STREET ROUNDABOUT & COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE WITH SUGAR INDUSTRY HISTORY

MINUTEMAN STATUE IN CONCORD, MASS.

In June 2021, we travelled to Massachusetts to meet with several of my Colby College friends and their spouses. Our 50th college reunion had been cancelled for the second year in a row due to the Covid pandemic. But we were all vaccinated, healthy and feeling safe if we followed precautions.

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PAUL REVERE STATUE IN BOSTON’S NORTH END

This may be Boston’s most photographed sculpture. And for two years in the 1970s I lived right across the street. I was living in a four story walk up at 421 Hanover Street. The street level housed Benninati store, a grocery and meat market. Mr & Mrs Benninati lived on the second floor, another Mr & Mrs Benninati lived on the third floor. 

The two husbands were brothers, the two wives were sisters. All four worked in the store, the women in front at the cashiers. My roommate and I lived on the top floor. The North End at that time was an Italian district of the city; my roommate and I were Irish, so we kept a low profile.

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BUDAPEST MEMENTO PARK

I am often asked how it came to be that I wrote a book about statues. My simple response is that I became interested in the taking down of the confederate statues, but beyond that, it became an interest in the place those statues held in their community, the discussions surrounding their removal, and where to “dispose” of them. This last feature is rarely featured, perhaps because it is a story still unfolding.

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