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The Official
Dorchester Day
Parade Roster
This roster is printed as an informational guide only.
The parade line up is subject to change by the committee at any time.
Advanced Division
Boston Fire Department
Boston Emergency Medical Services
Brewster Ambulance
McCall Ambulance
Chief Marshal’s Division
Hallamore Clydesdales
Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Family
Boston Police Gaelic Column
Chelsea Soldiers Home Honor Guard
Jack Cunningham - 2016 Parade Chief Marshal
Deidre Habershaw, 2016 Mayor of Dorchester
Westbrook Drum Corps
Brighton High School JROTC
Community Academy Science & Health JROTC Community
Academy Science & Health Band
Boy Scouts
Disabled American Veterans
Dorchester Day Parade Contest Winners
National Lancers
Smedley Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace
Worcester Sound & Lights Military Band Organ
First Division
Senator Linda Dorcena Forry
Spartans Drum And Bugle
State Representative Dan Hunt
Waltham American Legion Trolley Band
State Representative Dan Cullinane
Kenny School Marching Band
State Representative Evandro Carvalho
East Boston Savings Bank
Hills-Mills Comedy Clown Band
Sheriff of Suffolk County Steven Tompkins,
WORK Inc.
Roma Band
Boston Raiders
Patsy’s Clowns
Up Academy
105.7 WROR
Estrellas Tropicales
Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy
Next Birthday Project
Firehouse Dixie
Viet Aid & VACA
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Uncle Sam Jazz Band
112th Dorchester Day Parade/Sun., June 5th, 2015
Starts 1:00 pm from Dorchester Lower Mills along Dorchester Avenue to Columbia Road
Happy Dorchester Day
from the
Dorchester Day Parade Committee
This year we honor as our Chief Marshal Jack Cunningham
We also congratulate our 2016 Mayor of Dorchester Deirdre Habershaw
Essay Contest Winners - Richard Tran and Harnaljia Maya Fenelon
Little Miss Dorchester - Georgia Hedderman
Young Miss Dorchester - Kristina Vo
2016 PARADE E-BOARD President: Marty Hogan
Vice President: Joe Zinck
Parade Clerk: Christine Isabelle-Hogan Secretary: Brianne Gore
Treasurer: Kelly Walsh Webmaster: Marty Hogan
Judge Advocate: Karen MacNutt
At-Large Director: Christine E. Hogan
At-Large Director: Meg O’Connell
At-Large Director: Colleen Walsh
PARADE COMMITTEE
Dick Bennett
Bob Boushell Carol Chaisson John Connor
Carol Chaisson
John Connor
Annissa George
Christine Hogan
George Hucunda
Daniel Lamoureux
Binh Nguyen
Paul Nutting
Meg O’Connell
Pat O’Neil
Millie Rooney
Ed Pimental
Peter Sasso
John Scannell
Pam Smith
Nghia Truong
Barbra Trybe
Lisa Zink
In Memoriam:
ROBERT J. BOUSHELL
Our Friend and fellow Parade Committee member passed on April 10, 2016. He was a very kind and loving man and will be missed by many!
Please keep him and his family and Friends in your thoughts.
–Dorchester Day Parade Committee. We want to thank all of those who helped out with fundraisers for the parade and those who work
throughout the year to put the parade on the street. Especially our parade sponsors.
PARADE WEBSITE: www.DotDayParade.com
Dorchester People for Peace
Kit Clark Senior Services
Bay Cove Human Services
Dynasty Productions, Inc.
Carney Hospital
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center
Volume 2 Steel Drum Band
Dorchester YMCA
Worcester Brass Band
Psi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Ms. Exqusite International Classic MA Woman Sondra Hardy
Painters & Allied Trades Council 35
Second Division
Boston City Councillor Frank Baker- D3
Colonial Pipers Bagpipe Band
Phillips Family Hospitality/Boston Bowl
Boston Windjammers
Boston City Councillor Andrea Campbell City Council - D4
Tempo International Rhythm Steelpan Band
First Parish Dorchester
3Way Entertainment
City Councillor At-Large Annissa Essaibi-George
Boston School of Music Arts
Codman Sq. Health Center
Dorchester Community Food Co-op
Total Entertainment
City Councillor At-Large Ayanna Pressley,
DotOut
Uphams Corner Health Center / Elder Service Plan
South Shore Joeys (Clowns)
First Baptist Church
New Liberty Jazz Band
City Councillor-At-Large Michelle Wu
Cedar Grove Baseball
City Councillor At-Large Michael Flaherty
Roberto Clemente 21 Dancers
The Pretty Gurlz Club
Dorchester Eagles Pop Warner
Glamorous Divas
Dorchester Historical Society
Dorchester Recycling Coalition
Metro Steel Orchestra
Dorchester Knights of Columbus
College Bound
Tony Barrie Marching Band
Paul Nutting, Candidate for Suffolk County Register of Deeds
Vietnamese American Community of MA
South End Dynamites
Safety Auto School
Providence Brass Band
William Burke for Congress
Cluster of Clowns
Stephanie Everett - Candidate for Suffolk County Register of Deeds
Clowning for Kids
Dorchester Park Association
Ms. Curvaceous (2014 & 2015) with Mr. Big (2015)
Titans Majorettes
Department of Children and Families
BPL Bibliocycle
Hobos Dixie
South Shore Visiting Nurses
Alexander Rhalimi, Candidate for Suffolk County Sheriff
English High School Marching Band
State Electric Corp.
The Cystem (The Youth Sports Training& Education Movement)
Trevor “The Games Man”
Douglas Bennett, Candidate for Suffolk County Register of
Deeds
Vietnamese Assembly of God of Boston
Family Steel Band
Cycling Murray’s
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Meet the 2016 Little Miss/Young Miss Dorchester winners
By Jariana Olukoga Special to the Reporter
pate are your average,
young girls from DorchesThe annual Little Miss/ ter who genuinely love
Young Miss Dorchester their community. The
contest was held May event is nothing at all
14 at the First Parish like a beauty pageant. “The girls are able
Church on Meetinghouse
Hill. The event is held to share their pride for
each year in the spring their community, speak
for girls ages 7 to 12. The in public, and show
purpose of the event is to off their charm” said
celebrate young girls in Annissa Essaibi-George,
City Councillor At-large
Dorchester. Little Miss Dorchester and the event organizer
was awarded to Grace for the Little Miss/Young
Foley, 9, a third grader Miss Dorchester contest. Essaibi-George has
at St. Brendan School. Young Miss Dorchester been organizing the
was awarded to Ashley event for 15 years. She
Tran, 13, a seventh loves hearing the young
grader at Boston Latin girls engage with the
audience and the fact
School.
The girls who partici- that they participate in
the contest. Last year, Grace Foley
was the first runner-up
in the Little Miss division. She and decided to
participate this year to
see if she would win —
and she did.
“My favorite part was
when they announced
the winner,” said Grace. Grace’s hobbies include archery, playing
violin and lacrosse, and
coloring and painting. Last year, Grace participated in the contest
at her mother’s encouragement to give her a
confidence boost.
“Speak loud, sit up
straight, and make sure
to be brave answering the
questions,” is the advice
from Grace to girls that
plan to participate next
year. She also wanted
to warn participants for
next year that there are
other girls participating,
but not to be nervous.
Ashley Tran — this
year’s Young Miss
Dorchester winner—
loves to swim at the Dot
House, plays the piano
and dances. She is also
a Girl Scout.
Ashley’s father, Jim
Tran, said this was not
her first time participating in this contest and
that she decided to participate again because
she really enjoys it and
has lots of fun.
Grace Foley
Ashley Tran
Ashley loves helping
out in the community,
he said.
Both girls are very
excited about the biggest
prize that comes with
their titles: Riding in
this Sunday’s Dot Day
Parade.
Beantown Athletics outfits neighborhood for Dot Day
By Jariana Olukoga
Special to the Reporter
Beantown Athletics on
Granite Avenue serves
a host of sports-related
needs for the neighborhood all year-long. This
week, they are busy
outfitting Dorchester for
its biggest celebration
of the year: Dorchester
Day.
Beantown has a full
array of Dot Day gear on
display in its Tent Sale,
now up and running
in the shop’s parking
lot at 132 Granite Ave.
T-shirts, tanks, hats,
and stickers. The Dot
Day Blowout sale con-
Dorchester’s own Jimmy Hayes and Kevin Hayes (@jrhayes39) got a sneak peak
at some of Beantown Athletics Dot Day gear. Pictured at left is NHL player
and former BC Eagle Johnny Gaudreau. Photo courtesy Beantown Athletics
tinues through June 4.
A number of new styles
are in stock for this
year’s parade. Right
now the biggest sellers
are the tank tops and
the American flag Nike
swoosh hats, according
to Tony King.
The store, owned and
operated by King, Joseph
Trabucco, John Kostas,
and Peter Needham,
offers screen-printing,
embroidery, promotional
items, and skate sharpening. It is the only
in-house union screenprinting, embroidery
shop in Boston, according to King.
Also a constant presence in the Beantown
is Beans, an English
bulldog, who is the stores
mascot.
Union workers, the old
school and new school
Dorchester heads are all
a part of the styles for
shirts and hats.
Beantown Athletics
will not be selling its gear
on the parade route, so
make sure to stop by 132
Granite Ave. under the
tents in the back parking
lot now until Saturday
afternoon. You can also
check them out online at
www.beantownathletics.
com.
Happy
Dorchester
Day!
We celebrate the incredible
neighborhood of Dorchester
and wish you a Happy
386th Birthday!
@MassConvention
DAVID M. GIBBONS
/MassConvention
massconvention.com
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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Once a toll road, Dorchester Ave. is a route that is rich in history
By Rev. Daniel Dunn
The late Rev. Daniel Dunn was pastor of Saint
Margaret’s Church and a past president of the
Dorchester Historical Society. He wrote this
article in 1973 when— apparently— staging for the
Dorchester Day Parade spilled over into neighboring
Milton.-Editor
As our Dorchester Day Parade Marshal assembles
the official cars “across the bridge,” they will be in
Milton, which was part of the Town of Dorchester,
until it became a separate town in 1662.
Proceeding to the official starting point, the cars
will cross the Neponset River at the spot where
the Federal Triumphal Arch was erected in 1798,
to commemorate the ratification of Jay’s Treaty. In
letters of gold, the arch proclaimed the sentiments
of the citizens, “We unite in defense of our country
and its laws - 1798.”
On August 9 of that year, President John Adams,
who was enroute from Washington to his home in
Quincy was escorted through the arch by the Boston
Cavalry. The wind storm in 1815 destroyed the arch.
Along the parade route, the horses of the Mounted
Police will be prancing over the areas where, years
ago, could be seen the hoof prints of their equine
forbears, as they pulled the omnibuses and the horse
cars on the Dorchester Turnpike, which, since 1854,
has been called “Dorchester Avenue.”
Before the construction of the Turnpike to Boston
in 1805, people going from Five Corners, now known
as Edward Everett Square, to Milton Lower Mills
followed the Lower Road through Uphams Corner to
Meeting House Hill, and then, along the winding and
hilly Adams Street to its very end at Lower Mills.
A private concern, the Dorchester Turnpike
Corporation, built the new toll road from the Boston
South Bridge, in a straight line, out to Lower Mills.
Many travelers continued to use then old roads
because they did not want to pay a toll charge on
the Turnpike. The toll charge was done away with
when the Town of Dorchester acquired the Turnpike
in 1854. It was then a public highway, Dorchester
Avenue.
Omnibuses, the city version of a stagecoach, were
introduced to the Boston area in 1833. The 1850 diary
of William Trask of Dorchester mentions the choice
one had of an inside seat, on a rainy day, or one of
the six seats on top of the omnibus on a pleasant day.
A marching band made its way up Dorchester Avenue during the 2014 Dot Day Parade. The first Dorchester Day parades in 1905 and 1906 did not make use of the avenue— other than to cross it on a route to
Savin Hill. The modern-day parade, which dates to 1963, has made exclusive use of the avenue.
Chris Lovett photo
He stressed the convenience of the 5 p.m. omnibus
when attending an evening performance in Boston.
Then, on March 26, 1856, the first horsecars in
New England began running from Bowdoin Square,
Boston, to Harvard Square, Cambridge. Not far
behind, in the same year, the Dorchester Avenue
(Horse) Railroad Company began its operation. A
financial failure at first, the cars, horses and other
stock were sold at auction on January 7, 1858. Their
stock had been $150,000, but the auction price was
$82,000. Under new management, the name was
changed to the Dorchester Railway Company. No
longer would it run only on Dorchester Avenue.
Further growth is seen in the name “Dorchester
and Milton Horse Railroad” as of 1868. Soon after, it
was taken over by the Metropolitan Railroad lines,
which operated in other parts of Boston.
In 1874, the schedules show that the horse car
service from Boston to Milton was “every sixty
minutes.” At the same period, one of the largest
stables for horses of the Metropolitan lines was
located at Park Street and Dorchester Avenue, where
the shopping plaza is now situated in Fields Corner.
When Dorchester was annexed to Boston in
1870, the Boston safety regulations applied to the
Dorchester Horse cars. Among them were the following: “No car shall be driven at a greater speed that
seven miles an hour”; “While the cars are turning
the corners, from one street to another, the horses
shall not be driven faster than a walk.”
The eighth regulation for safety has all the
earmarks of the years before Women’s Lib. It stated,
“The conductor shall not allow ladies or children
to enter or leave the cars while in motion. Other
passengers may be allowed to enter the cars or
depart therefrom while the cars are at a full stop
or nearly stopped.”
Stormy weather brought transportation problems
and hazards, even then. There was no problem of ice
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Dorchester Day!
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Proud to serve the 1st Suffolk District
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From our family to yours,
Happy Dorchester Day!
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Dorchester Day
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Have a Happy
and Safe
Dorchester Day
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Baker
and staff
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Happy Dot Day from your Boston Main Streets Districts!
Executive Director: Jenn Cartee
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Board President: Yvonne Ruggles
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Rain prompts Memorial Day ceremonies move to Florian Hall
The traditional parade and observances
at Cedar Grove Cemetery were moved to
Florian Hall as heavy
rain fell in Dorchester
through the morning
of Memorial Day, May
30. Governor Charlie
Baker, Mayor Martin
Walsh and Senator
Linda Dorcena Forry
offered remarks at the
event, which featured
a keynote address by
Jack Cunningham, a
former Marine pilot
who is also the grand
marshal of Sunday’s
Dorchester Day Parade.
Photos by
Chris Lovett
Jack Cunningham speaks to the Florian Hall assembly.
Governor Charlie Baker offered remarks at the Memorial Day ceremony.
Ernest Abreu of the John P. McKeon Post sounded
a bugle outside the post on Hilltop Street.
Happy Dorchester Day!
From your friends and neighbors at Phillips.
Coming in June! Outdoor patio firepit dining!
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Carpenters Local Union 67
Best Wishes to All
Happy Dorchester Day
From the
Executive Board, Delegates, and Members
of
Carpenters Local Union 67
760 Adams St., 2nd Floor
Dorchester, MA 02122
(617) 474-7879
G. Steven Tewksbury Christopher Shannon
Victor Carrara
Michael Kerin
John J. Glynn, Jr.
Mark Dellascio
Patrick Sugrue
Charles Cofield
Charles Hurl
Patrick Donovan
Thomas J. Flynn
President/Delegate
Vice President/Delegate
Recording Secretary/Alt. Delegate
Financial Secretary/Delegate
Treasurer/Delegate
Conductor
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Trustee/Alt. Delegate
Trustee
Trustee/Alt. Delegate
Delegate
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Meet 2016 Dorchester ‘Mayor’ Deirdre Habershaw
By Kiera Murray
Special to the Reporter
Deirdre Habershaw,
33, is the 2016 Mayor of
Dorchester. A Savin Hill
native, Deirdre is raising
her two daughters with
her husband Auston in
the Ashmont-Adams
neighborhood. She works
full-time at City Hall
and is a devoted civic
activist. Deirdre raised
over $12,000 to support this year’s Dot Day
events. We caught up
with her this week as she
prepares for Sunday’s
parade.
Reporter: Congratulations on a landslide victory, Mayor Habershaw!
What made you decide
to run?
Mayor Habershaw:
Thank you. It was a
hard fought victory.
Honestly? My brother
triple dog dared me, and
there’s just no comeback
for that. But seriously,
I followed through on
it because I love our
community and I am
proud of all the different
organizations and people
across Dorchester who
are doing great things in
our neighborhoods. The
parade is the opportunity
to celebrate them and I
wanted to do my part in
giving back to support
the parade.
Reporter: Describe
your campaign. What
kind of fundraising did
you do?
DH: We did a number
of different things. I set
up the Crowdrise page
for online donations.
Sold 50/50 raffle tickets,
hosted a pub crawl with
members of the Greater
Boston Fire Fighters
Pipes and Drums, held
an Art Auction at Nancy
Anderson’s Carriage
House, and the Hunt
family organized a house
party that featured a
Dorchester Trivia Contest.
We tried to hit up every
corner of the neighborhood and have a variety
of events that would
appeal to lots of different
people.
Reporter: How much
did you raise, and what
do you think was the
most successful event?
DH: I raised $12,000
for the parade this year.
The most profitable oneday event was the Art
Auction, but the majority of funds were actually raised by generous
friends and neighbors
giving donations. I’d
come home from work
to several checks in my
mailbox.
If we were judging success in just pure fun the
Pub Crawl was the most
successful. I’d do that
again if I could convince
the band to come out!
Reporter: What’s
your favorite part of
Dorchester Day? In other
words, where are your
people most likely to find
you on Sunday?
DH: It is really hard
to pick just one. I grew
up in Savin Hill, went to
school Saint Ann’s, lived
in Cedar Grove, am now
in Ashmont Adams and
have friends and family
all over Dorchester so,
pinning me down to one
place is going to be hard.
I’ve brought the kids
to watch the parade
every year, so I haven’t
marched in probably
six years. I am looking
forward to that the most.
Dot Ave has changed so
much in that time and I
have so many new and
old friends in different
pockets that I am really
looking forward to seeing
all of them. I will definitely hit up Councillor
Baker’s block party (at
Columbia Road at Dot
Ave), and I am going to
try and make as many
house parties as I can
before the sun goes down.
Reporter: What is the
best part of being mayor?
DH: I don’t know yet.
You’ll have to ask me
next year! The best part
of running is seeing just
how generous and supportive our community
is. As mayor, what will
your first executive order
be? Automatic seating
and unlimited pancakes
at McKenna’s for the
Mayor of Dorchester.
Would that be too much
of an abuse of power?
Reporter: You have
two daughters. Does
political prowess run in
the family?
DH: I definitely have
the political bug on both
sides of my family tree,
but it is early to say
whether either of my
girls will be bitten by it.
The first words Madelyn
learned to read were
“Marty Walsh” so, maybe
that is an indication.
I have two intelligent,
imaginative, and resilient kids on my hands.
So I know they will be
great at whatever they
choose to do.
Reporter: Anything
else you’d like to say to
the people of Dorchester?
DH: Mostly just a huge
“Thank you!” not just
for donating or giving
me encouragement and
assistance with fundraising, but for making
Dorchester the great
place that it is.
It is hard to describe
to people who don’t live
or work here just what it
is about Dorchester that
makes us love it, but it
definitely has something
Deirdre Habershaw
So I want to thank
everyone who has ever
loved Dorchester, who’ve
made it what it is and
who continue to sustain
it and make it better.
to do with the people. I
would never want to live
anywhere else and I am
extremely fortunate to be
able to stay in Dorchester
and raise my kids here.
Happy Dorchester Day & Best Wishes for
a Happy, Safe, & Healthy Summer!
State Representative Dan Cullinane
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Our Town Formed the Foundation
One of Dorchester’s Great Historians Recounts Dorchester’s
The Rev. James K. Allen was not a
native of Dorchester, but became one of
our community’s most well-loved and
respected members during his long
tenure as pastor of the First Parish
Church on Meetinghouse Hill. Rev.
Allen was perhaps the most well-versed
Dorchester historian of his generation
and in 1979 he published this remarkable essay about the Puritan people who
settled the town of Dorchester in 1630
and their early history in the “New
World.” In the 24 years since Rev. Allen
wrote this article, many things have
changed in Dorchester. Our population
is no longer the astounding 200,000
that Rev. Allen accurately recorded at
the time; the Kennedy Library, which
was then still a promise, has now been
completed and its dream fulfilled.
Sadly, we’ve also lost a great friend
in Rev. Allen, who died in February
1991, but lives on in our memories
and through his thoughtful writings,
such as this.
BY REV. JAMES K. ALLEN
Dorchester, with a population of
just under 200,000 people, is the
second-largest urban center in Massachusetts. That, in itself, would make
Dorchester important; but through its
history, Dorchester rightly deserves to
be recognized as “a foundation stone of
our nation” because so many important
developments in our history had their
beginnings herein.
When Captain Squebb of the Mary
and John unloaded his 140 passengers
at Hull, in 1630, the Massachusetts Bay
Colony had its second group of settlers,
the first being Salem about six months
before. These jettisoned people made
their way by fishing boats to Savin
Hill Bay to begin their colony on the
land called Mattapan by the Indians
of the area, but destined to be called
Dorchester at the home base of those
Puritan adventurers. Inspired by the
Reverend John White, they chose to
cross the Atlantic and make a new
beginning in this new land where
they would name their community
Dorchester in honor of the pastor, John
White who sponsored them and helped
them prepare for their new life in a new
area which they referred to as “God’s
Plantation in the Wilderness.”
After one saga by some of the men up
the Charles River to the present area of
the arsenal in Watertown where they
planted their gardens as the Indians
watched them in amazement, they
returned to Mattapan at the behest
of the majority who chose the shores
of Savin Hill and the Mouth of the
Neponset River as most favorable for
settlement. A group of these people
returned to Watertown in the fall of
1630 to harvest their crops planted the
first week of June.
The Dorchester settlement was
selected as an appealing location with
conditions favorable for gardens and
the feeding of farm animals on which
the new settlers would lean heavily for
their subsistence on this new continent.
The harbor of Massachusetts Bay itself,
with two rivers –the Charles and the
Neponset–was a favorable place, with
the protection of many islands facing
the Atlantic, and beautiful background
of forested hills. Dorchester seemed
the most advantageous location for the
most dominant colony in New England,
as indeed it was for the first century.
Only because of the deeper channels in
its harbor did Boston outstrip Dorchester in population and commercial life.
Even then, it borrowed many of its
important developments from the town
of Dorchester and its people.
The early Dorchester community had
foundations four-square: home, church,
school, and town. The home was the
starting point for the new-born, but
it was also more than that. It was not
only a fortress against the world, but
also a training place where the children
Take out the gas tanks, the Beades Bridge, the expressway. Lose the traffic. Now you may be able to picture the arrival of the first pilgrim settlers at Savin Hill in 1630. The photo above was taken at a Landing Day ceremony in the
1980s. File photo
learned the ways of piety and godliness
from their earliest impressions. The
Bible was read daily and prayers were
said, not only at the beginning and
end of the day but also in thankfulness before meals. Homes were the
fortresses of their lives - the training
schools of character as well as shelter
from the pristine wilderness. Death
laid a heavy hand upon the young, with
no understanding of sanitation and no
means of combating such epidemics as
smallpox, diphtheria, and a long list
of fatal illnesses. Two out of three of
the children born the first year died,
so those who survived were regarded
as even more precious. Life expectancy
in colonial America was less than 20
years.
It was the purpose of the people to
emphasize the sacred in their lives,
and that was the whole meaning of
the Puritan Revolution. They protested
what was known as the Cavalier spirit
in Mother England, where profane
attitudes toward life were blatant
and destructive, and obscenity was so
commonplace as to cause the Puritan
reformers to close all the theaters and
places of public meeting, where possible, in order that what was left of the
sacred would not be overwhelmed. The
home life developed by the Dorchester
Puritans served as evidence that these
people not only sought a new way
of life but found one of its strongest
foundations in their homes.
A second foundation of the early
Dorchester Community was the
Church–a gathering of Christian
people who
held certain commitments about
their faith and belief known to the
world as Puritan. The word “Puritan”
was an epithet hurled at them and was
identified by others as negative, hence,
in many ways destructive of social
values. In some ways, Puritanism could
rightly be identified in these ways: but
a wider study of its effects both on the
people and the civilization which they
produced bordered on the admirable. It
is not a completely strange system of
belief but had its beginnings in Manichaeism of the late fourth century, to
which the great Augustine was himself
a convert for many years, and then
came to the surface again in the late
12th century with the Cathari of the
Roman Catholic Church. They championed the Bible, especially the New
Testament as the root of their religions
faith and opposed the absorption of all
religious authority as residual in the
clergy. They attempted to purify their
lives and attracted so much attention as
to threaten the mainstream of Church
life for another century. Religious
attitudes very similar in kind surfaced
with the Anabaptists of Europe in the
early 1500s with Zwingli and many of
their basic ideas were strengthened by
John Calvin in Switzerland and John
Knox in Scotland. All this happened as
a foundation to the Puritan movement
in England that led to the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Dorchester, in
particular.
Henry VIII leaned on this arm of
religion when he succeeded in having
Parliament declare the independence
of the Church of England in 1534.
The Church of England remained
the official bastion of religion until
Mary came to the throne in 1553 to
re-establish Roman Catholicism. Then
Queen Elizabeth restored the power
of the Church of England in 1558,
but only on paper. Large numbers of
English people continued to be Roman
Catholics in faith and belief. In 1585,
an Act was passed in Parliament
accusing all Jesuits and seminary
priests entering the realm as guilty
of high treason for which there was
punishment of hanging, drawing, and
quartering. Father Thomas Pilchard
was tried and executed on the gallows
in Dorchester, England. There were
many others throughout the realm,
so that regardless of any implication
made by any writer, the early Puritans
and the faithful Roman Catholics had
a common bond of resentment and
also of faith that would later result in
a basic acceptance–one of the other–in
Dorchester, Massachusetts colony.
The ecumenical spirit, so new in many
parts of the world, was not strange in
Dorchester from its beginning though
the actual physical Church in the Massachusetts Bay colony was made up of
English Puritans who themselves suffered threats and violence at the hands
of English law and the enforcement of
that law demanding conformity.
The Dorchester Colony, like other
units in the Massachusetts Bay, was
a theocracy with the powers of government centered in the Church and the
authority of the Church residual in
the membership of the congregation,
though in actual fact, the clergy
exercised wide influence. The people
were allowed to vote but the power
of franchise was limited to those who
belonged to the Church, so the Church
was a political power in the life of the
Dorchester community.
Richard Mather, who was regarded
as a reformer in England and looked
on with disfavor by the bishops there,
came to New England in 1635. He had
been a schoolmaster at Toxteth Park
in Liverpool where he was known as
a skillful educator. It was normal,
therefore, that he should emphasize
education in Dorchester where he was
called to be minister of the Church in
1636. His work with the people gave
rise to a school - the first tax-supported
school in America. Three other towns
claim this distinction: Boston, with its
Latin School, Dedham, and Rehoboth.
The Boston Public Latin School was
opened in 1635, but it was public in the
British sense; the scholars paid their
tuition costs. The town of Boston did
not contribute any money to the Latin
School until 1641. School in Dedham
was tax-supported from its beginning,
but Dedham was not even incorporated
until the Dorchester public school had
been in operation for four years; and the
same thing can be said about Rehoboth
and its public school.
The tax-supported public school had
its beginning in Dorchester with Mr.
Thomas Waterhouse as its teacher.
The school opened in March at 7 in
the morning and continued until 5
in the evening through the month of
September, with two hours off for lunch
except for examinations that came
on Tuesdays to test the Sabbath Day
learning of the scholars. They met on
Saturday for instruction in catechism
and began every school day with prayer,
ending it the same way in the afternoon.
This six-day-perweek program continued from October through February - a
12-month session - except that the day
was shortened from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
during the five months of less daylight.
The other foundation of life in
Dorchester was the Town. Towns
are as old as human history, but the
democratic form of government which
had its beginnings in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, was something new in
the world. Roger Ludlow, who served as
Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony under Winthrop, was the
man who instituted what has come to
be known as the New England Town
Meeting on October 8, 1633 - the most
democratic process of government
known to history. The ancient Greeks
exercised the process of democracy,
where the word originated, but only
one person out of 10 was qualified to
vote in the Old World.
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Early Days and Contributions
When the beating of the drum summoned the
inhabitants of the Town of Dorchester “every
Mooneday of the Monthe,” the citizens were asked
to assemble in the Meetinghouse to consider their
civic and political problems and responsibilities.
These meetings were called in the morning because
it was a time when indoor lighting was inadequate.
All power of political action was assumed by
the New England Town Meeting, except when
their actions encroached upon the authority of the
Commonwealth or of their British over-Lords whose
authority they repudiated in common practice. This
Town Meeting form of government spread rapidly to
Cambridge, Watertown, and other towns, and was
made an official instrument of government by the
General court in 1638.
The Town of Dorchester included all of the land
between Boston, which began at the channel at the
present South Station, and the Plymouth Colony
that included what became the town of Braintree,
the nearest part of which is now known as Quincy.
Dorchester boundaries included the communities
now know as Squantum and Wollaston, as well
as the present towns of Milton, Hyde Park, the
adjacent parts of what became Wrentham, Stoughton,
Sharon, Foxboro, and Canton (Dorchester Village).
Dorchester’s land reached to within 150 rods of the
Rhode Island border. Though new settlers continued
to arrive in Dorchester from England, the population
was thinly scattered over the hinterland with most
of the people living near the ocean and along the few
roads of the town, the most important of which were
the Lower Road, now Adams Street, and the Upper
Road, now Washington Street, Centre Street, and
a small complex that was called the village center
on Allin’s Plain, where Pleasant Street met east
Cottage Street. It was within the triangle formed
at this junction that the first Meetinghouse and the
village school were built; and nearby, the old Blake
House (1650), oldest frame house in the United States
and still standing.
New settlers arrived from Boston and settlements
to the north, and some came by ship from Englandin
1632, especially. A n o t h e r group, motivated by
the discontent of Deputy Governor Roger Ludlow,
left Dorchester in the company with Thomas Hooker
and some of his friends of Cambridge (Newton) .They
made their way to the Connecticut River and floated
down to found the colony at Windsor, Connecticut.
Ludlow, unhappy because he had not been appointed
Governor in the place of Winthrop, decided to leave
Massachusetts. He wrote “The fundamental Orders
of Connecticut” that furnished the framework of
our federal Constitution and the constitutions of
many states. Though brilliant, he was a malcontent
and departed from Windsor to die in Virginia.
Dorchester’s first minister, John Warham, went to
Connecticut with those dissidents. The Reverend
John Maverick died in 1635, so the
Dorchester people called Richard Mather, recently
arrived from England, to be their new minister. He
began his work in 1636 and continued until the time
of his death in 1669, at the age of 73. He was regarded
as an authority on theological subjects by his New
England contemporaries and authored America’s
first book, “The Bay Psalm Book.” Richard Mather
was the father of Increase and the grandfather of
Cotton Mather, outstanding clergymen of early New
England. Dorchester people continued to move. Some
went to Taunton, and many of them were included
among the early residents of Northampton. An
organized colony, partly gathered from other towns,
left Dorchester, Massachusetts on shipboard to found
Dorchester, South Carolina in 1696. There was
discontent in South Carolina because of inadequate
acreage for farming, and swamp fever. The greatest
problem, however, was the building of the Church
of Saint George in the middle of the Dorchester
colony at the behest of the governing authorities
in South Carolina. It was the legal church - the
Church of England - which the colonists were called
on to support by taxation but in whose religions life
they did not share. The people of Dorchester, South
Carolina, investigated possibilities and moved in
1752 to found the towns of Midway and Sunbury,
Georgia. From this Georgia community came two
signers of the Declaration of Independence, four
governors of Georgia, two of the nation’s greatest
scientists, the founder of the University of California,
representatives and senators, both in states and
nation, as well as 85 clergymen; also, the grandfather
of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Theodore Roosevelt,
as well as the father of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
Industries in the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts were notable from its beginnings. Agriculture
and fishing began with the arrival of the first settlers.
A corn mill, powered by the waterfall in the lower
Neponset River, was the first power mill in New
England. The first of Dorchester’s three clay pits was
opened, and building bricks were made from it in the
early years of the colony. Downtown Boston was built
from bricks molded and fired near one of Dorchester’s
three clay pits. The clay from one of them, Kaolin,
was used in making pottery, - an industry that
continues until the present day. Shipbuilding was
well-developed as an industry at Commercial Point
for more than a century.
The modern-day Dorchester includes one of the
nation’s greatest hospitals, the Carney, plus six
neighborhood health centers. It is the site of the
Dorchester Ice Cream plant, the Boston Globe, the
nerve center of the First National Bank system, the
Harbor Campus of the University of Massachusetts,
the Joseph Pollak Corporation, plus many wholesale
and retail establishments.
The first supermarket of the nation, Elm Farm, was
here, as was the first Howard Johnson restaurant in
the nation. Many things have their beginning here.
The first playing cards in America were made in
Rev. James K. Allen was one of the great custodians
of Dorchester history in the 20th century.
Dorchester, the first stringed instruments factory
was here, as was the first paper mill, the first bookprinting establishment, and the first chocolate mill.
As a present development and a suggestion for
future leadership of the Dorchester community, the
Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum is now
under construction in Dorchester.
Rev. James Allen (second from right) leads a prayer on the shore of Savin Hill Beach, commemorating
the arrival of Puritan settlers from Dorchester, England in June 1630. File photo
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June 2, 2016
Project D.E.E.P., Blarney Stone host Dot Day 5K
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By Griffin Connolly
Special to the Reporter
This Sunday at noon,
runners from all over
Dorchester will take part
in the annual Project
D.E.E.P. and Blarney
Stone Dorchester Day
5K.
Event planners from
Project D.E.E.P., the
Dorchester Educational
Enrichment Program,
which provides weekly
one-on-one tutoring to
hundreds of elementary
school students, started
their work in the fall
and say there have been
upgrades across the
board.
“We’re going to be
improving in lots of
areas,” said Beth Connell, Project D.E.E.P.’s
executive director and a
Neponset native. “Last
race, we had the most
participants ever, so
we’ve updated our methods and brought in extra
help.”
In years past, officials
have timed runners
manually with a stopwatch, a meticulous,
often error-prone,
method. This year, for
the first time in the 13year history of the race,
which starts outside the
Blarney Stone Pub, meanders down Dorchester
Avenue toward Lower
Mills, and loops back
along the same route,
results will be recorded
digitally with a chip
Runners in the annual Project D.E.E.P./Blarney Stone Dorchester Day 5K get ready for the race. Photo courtesy Project D.E.E.P.
timing system.
“It’s going to be all
electronic this year,”
Connell said. “That
should help, given the
increase in volume we
saw last year.”
On the eve of last year’s
run, 75 people signed up
online, bringing the total
to 250 participants as the
servers closed. But at
11 the following morning, 200 more names
flooded the registration
tables, an unexpected,
yet welcome, wrench in
the planners’ designs.
Kerrie Young, who
hails from St. Brendan’s
and is a member of
the Dorchester Running
Club, which meets every
Saturday morning at
7 at Garvey Park, ran
in the 5K in 2015 and
took note of the scene
beforehand. “We know
last year they had a lot
more registrants than
Happy
Dorchester
Day
prior years,” she said, “so
it looked like they could
use a few more hands to
help out that day.”
She fired off an email
to Connell at Project
D.E.E.P., saying that her
club would be happy to
chip in for 2016. Connell
swiftly and gratefully
accepted the offer. “It’s
a lot of work organizing
a road race,” Young said,
“so we put the offer out
there if she needed any
help with registration or
on the water stops. Beth
was very appreciative
of the offer,” she added,
noting that the race “is a
community event, and at
the Dorchester Running
Club, we like to help
the community and give
back. Project D.E.E.P
is a good community
organization that helps
a lot of kids.”
As in years past, a cookout and awards ceremony
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the race.
The pre-race entry fee
is $30 for adults and $15
for children up to age 12.
Day-of rates are $35 for
adults, $20 for children.
Proceeds from the event
will help fund enrollment
in summer camps for
the students of Project
D.E.E.P. who completed
the program’s academic
and service requirements
during the school year.
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Dot Day Parade 101: Tie on those Adidas and hit the Avenue
By Bill Forry and
Lauren Dezenski
This beginner’s guide to
the Dot Day Parade was
originally published in
June 2015.
Can you feel it? The
sense of anticipation, joy,
and wonder, reverberating up and down Dot Ave?
The parade brings together all the different
ethnic groups that make
up Boston’s biggest and
best neighborhood. You
could spend a year going
to all the different ethnic
fests across Boston. Or
just come to Dot Day and
see them all in one twohour extravaganza. Plus,
we were gay friendly
before it was a thing.
There’s something for
everyone in this parade.
For the folks that grew
up here (OFD), the day is
a walk down memory lane
(and a 3.2 mile parade
route). For some, it’s a
time to return to one’s
roots and relive the glory
days of a street corner
youth. For others, it’s
celebrating local organizations and groups that
march in the parade, not
to mention the scores of
kids and cousins marching in their little league
uniforms.
Dot Day itself is steeped
in tradition. Around for
over 100 years now, the
parade started as a way
to mark the foundation of
Dorchester as a Puritan
settlement back in May
1630 (see this week’s
editorial, page 12).
And now to the brass
tacks: The parade itself
starts at 1 p.m. from Dot
Ave and Richmond Street
in Lower Mills and troops
up Dot Ave all the way
to the Polish Triangle
at the border of Southie.
The head of the parade
will reach its end-point
at Columbia Road more
than an hour-and-a-half
later.
Project DEEP co-hosts
a 5K run beginning and
ending at the Blarney
Stone— the other sponsor— on Dot Avenue
before the parade. (See
story, page 14). Locals
will tell you it’s not a bad
way to snag a prime and
well-hydrated spot in the
shade along the parade
route.
Before the parade,
State Sen. Linda Forry
typically hosts a greeting
tent at the Meetinghouse
Bank parking lot in
Lower Mills— where lots
of pols and dignitaries
stop to swap parade
gossip, take photos and a
sneak in a water break.
Getting there: The MBTA
is your friend today. Cars
will be ticketed and towed
along Dot Ave. and Richmond Street ahead of the
parade, so if you typically
park on the avenue, have
a plan to move it a few
hours ahead of time. Take
the Red Line to Ashmont
or Fields Corner. Both
stations are right on Dot
Ave. and just steps from
big crowds.
Where to watch (and
blend in with the big
crowd)? Along the wall
(and under the trees) at
Dorchester Park in Lower
Mills, south of Carney
Hospital; intersection
of Dot Ave and Gallivan
Boulevard; Peabody
Square; in front of St.
Mark’s Church; the Blarney Stone; and the Savin
Hill Ave. intersection.
If you like to watch
the parade in a more
intimate setting (e.g.
small crowd), stick to the
stretch between Freeport
Street and Hecla Street.
It’s typically quite thin,
albeit a bit of a hike from
either the Savin Hill and
Fields Corner T stops.
Pro-tip: There’s usually a
raucous group watching
from the side-lot at Peggy
O’Neill’s bar.
The glory of Dot Day
is in its inherent ability
to bring people together–
often over brews and hot
dogs. It’s a day to get to
know your neighbors
and, especially after this
winter, spend some time
outside.
And even when
the street cleaners come through,
Dot Day isn’t over.
Longtime families host
post-parade BBQs, so
get to know your fellow spectators along the
route and you’re likely
to score an invite. City
Councillor Frank Baker
hosts a block party on Dot
Ave north of Columbia
Rd. with free food, music,
and other entertainment.
If Sunday’s a real scorrchah (hot day), hoof it a
few short blocks from Dot
Ave. to Savin Hill beach
for a splash in Dorchester
Bay. The stretch of beach
on the other side of
Morrissey Blvd. (careful
now, use the crosswalk)
is Malibu Beach, closer
to the landmark gas
tank. Be nice and maybe
one of the jet skiers who
weekend on Malibu will
give you a lift back to
Quincy or wherever you
came from.
What to wear: You’re
going to be on your feet for
hours if you do this right,
so footwear is your most
important decision of the
day. If you want to blend
in like an old-school Dot
Rat, may we suggest a
pair of mint-green or hotblue Adidas Gazelles?
Old-school sneaker heads
break out these high
school throwbacks and
share notes on which
variety store they copped
them from in the 1980s.
Vendors along the
route will be hawking
Dot-themed t-shirts
and tanks. Longtime
Dot activist Lew Finfer
breaks out his vintage
three-decker tee for every
parade. Notice we said
three-decker, not tripledecker. Triple deckers
are sandwiches. If you’re
a legit Dot “kid”— you
know it’s a three-decker.
Also, sunscreen. Lots
and lots of sunscreen.
(Unless it rains, of
course, which it might
this year, based on
the latest forecast.)
A final note, from the department of your mother:
The absolute worst view
of the parade route is
from the Area C-11 jail
block. Open containers
are absolutely NOT allowed on the route and
Boston Police have been
serious about making
this a far-less sudsy
affair than the March
parade in South Boston.
There’s zero tolerance
on underage boozing
in particular, so don’t
risk it. Adult spectators
may, however, enjoy
their beverage of choice
on private property or
from one of the Dot Ave’s
favorite establishments
including Ashmont Grill,
Harp & Bard, and the
Banshee. The Blarney
Stone is a very popular
spot because its windows
open up to the route
and it has an amazing
outdoor patio. It’s usually
a big crowd, especially
among those who run in
the pre-parade Blarney
Stone-Project DEEP 5k.
So dust off those Adidas
Gazelles (or order them
online STAT) and get
ready to party like a
Dot Rat this Sunday
for the biggest day in
Dorchester. See you on
the Ave.
Happy
Dot Day
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BRETT’S BOSTON
By Harry Brett
The Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action
Corps hosted a dinner on May 20 at the Kennedy
Library & Museum to honor individuals “who
truly embrace” the legacy of the late US Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy and “work tirelessly to better
the lives of children and their families.” The 2016
Embracing honorees were: Joseph E. Corcoran,
Corcoran Jennison Companies; the Dropkick
Murphys leader Ken Casey; Thaddeus Miles,
director of community services at MassHousing;
and Francine T. Sherman, clinical professor
and director of the Juvenile Rights Advocacy
Program at Boston College Law School.
Pictured are: 1.) Leslie E. Harris, Roxbury;
Evelyn Miles, Virginia Beach, Va.; Donna Santos, Esther Santos, Hyde Park; 2.) Tom Lyons;
3.) Della Francis, Dorchester; 4.) Ken and Jennifer Casey, John Burke Hingham; 5.) Todd and
Martha Golub, Newton; 6.) Nell and Pat Jones,
Hingham; 7.) Larry and Hope Zabar, Swampscott;
Congressman Joseph Kennedy; 8.) Gil Sullivan,
Canton; Joe Corcoran; 9.) Ella Pinderhughes,
Brookline; Jasmine Waddell, Cambridge; 10.)
Ginny Doyle Milton; Eileen Casey, Hingham;
11.) Fran T. Sherman, Newton; Ned Loughran,
Winchester; Ronna Benjiman, Newton; 12.) Kyle
Saunders, Beacon Hill; Gaetan Daphnis, Milton;
Joe Corcoran, Milton; 13.) Phil and Mary Chaves,
Arlington; Jen and Merit McIntyre, Haverhill;
14.) Jennifer Casey (Mrs. Ken); Stephen Casey,
Walpole; 15.) Congressman Joe Kennedy, Ken
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Proud to stand with
our great Mayor Martin Walsh
in wishing our neighbors
a Happy Dorchester Day
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Once a toll road, Dorchester Ave. is a route that is rich in history
(Continued from page 5)
on the “third rail,” which as more than once stalled
our Rapid Transit line. But people could remember
reading in the Transcript of December 31, 1857 the
heading “Omnibus in peril.” It gave an account of
the Dorchester Omnibus the night before on the icy
Causeway road. The horses became frightened as
they were driven through knee deep water filled with
floating ice, caused by the high tide. The newspaper
article went on to tell that tragedy had been avoided
when “the skill of the driver triumphed.”
In the winter season some passengers preferred the
omnibus with its jingling sleighbells and sleigh-like
runners. But when the spring thaws came they
heard the unpleasant sounds of the runners being
dragged over the bare ground spots.
The omnibus required four horses to transport
Charlie Nguyen played drums for Binh Dinh Academy of Vietnamese Traditional Martial Arts in the
2015 parade. Chris Lovett photo
eighteen passengers on wheels over the ordinary
ground surface. The horse cars, running on smooth
tracks, needed only two horses to transport 22 passengers. By 1883, the horse cars had put the omnibus
out of business everywhere.
In the following year,
1884, the electric trolley car would be invented and
would take over the transportation business by the
turn of the century.
In 1900, George Clocker wrote that the 17th and
18th century residents of Dorchester used “the
horse without the carriage,” while the 19th century
residents used “the horse with the carriage.”
He then went on to say that it seemed quite probable that the 20th century resident of Dorchester
would use “the carriage without the horse.” How
soon his words came true! Electric trolley cars
began to replace Old Bobbin in Boston in 1899.
And on Christmas Eve, 1900, Boston’s last horse
car disappeared.
Those ancient trees along the parade route at
such places as Dorchester Park, Town Field and the
old Clapp Estate are living witnesses to all these
changes. But they remain as silent observers and
provide no information for us.
However, we do get reliable facts from such sources
as the unpublished diaries of Jonathan Blake, William and Frederick Clapp and William Trask. If you
keep a diary of events, please consider bequeathing
it to us at the Dorchester Historical Society.
The Boston Foundation proudly celebrates the diversity and vibrancy of our city’s
largest neighborhood—big in size and big of heart. Happy Dorchester Day from Greater
Boston’s community foundation! For more about the Boston Foundation, visit www.tbf.org.
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residents of the Levedo Building, Photo by Richard Howard, 2014
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Dot House lifeguards make neighborhood a better place
By Ashley Tran
The winner of the
Dorchester Day Essay
Contest is Ashley Tran,
who is also this year’s
Young Miss Dorchester
winner. Ashley, age 12, is
a student at Boston Latin
School. She was asked
to write about a person
or group that makes the
Dorchester community
better. This year’s contest is dedicated to the
memory of Joe Chaisson.
Being born and raised
in Dorchester for my
entire life, I believe that
this neighborhood is a
great place to live in. I
participated in many
groups in Dorchester
such as Girl Scouts,
dancing, and martial
arts.
One group that has
had a great impact on
my life as well as the
lives of others in the community is the lifeguards
at the Dot House Health
swimming pool. The
lifeguards make the
community a better place
because they operate the
swimming pool daily for
everyone. They work
hard to provide the best
service for the public and
made a commitment to
make Dorchester a betterplace to live in. They
run programs offered to
the general public during
community hours and
for pool members. Their
workdays begin early
from 6:30 a.m. and end
at 8:30 p.m.
At the pool, there are
many aquatic programs
and classes that are offered for all ages: babies,
youth, adults, and seniors. There is a “Water
Babies” class for parents
ercise early in the morning before work or during
the evenings. There are
also programs for seniors
such as water aerobics
and swim lessons. The
program enables them
to be active and to work
their bodies in a relaxing environment. These
types of programs allow
both adults and seniors
to become more fit and to
maintain a healthy and
balanced lifestyle.
The swimming pool
staff has done a tremendous job throughout the
year by running their
amazing programs and
swim lessons that benefit
the community. I have
been playing at the pool
since I was a toddler.
During that time, I was
frightened to swim, but
with the assistance of the
lifeguards, I overcame
my fear of swimming.
I began to learn how
to swim and with the
mentoring and coaching
from my coaches, I was
able to become a faster
swimmer.
By the age of six, I
joined the Dorchester
House Swim Team and
have won medals at the
regional and national
swim meets. Not only do
the lifeguards and swim
coaches work with the
swimmers on the swim
team about techniques
to swim faster and to
become healthier, they
also teach the swimmers
about life skills. They
teach the swimmers how
to manage their time
while balancing their
homework and attending
daily swim practices.
They emphasize the
values of teamwork
and team spirit. The
lifeguards work with the
swimmers to set goals in
swimming, which can
also be used for swimmers to set goals in life.
Although, there are
many people and groups
that make Dorchester a
great place to live in, I
think that the Dorchester House swimming
pool staff is the most
committed to make the
community better. The
lifeguards at the pool
have had a great impact
on my life as well as the
community of Dorchester by unifying everyone
through programs and
socializing time. They
make Dorchester a better place to live in.
Ashley Tran
and babies to bond and
experience the water
together. The lifeguards
would help develop the
swimming abilities of
the infants and communication between
the babies and parents.
For the youth, the pool
offers weekly swim lessons for beginner and
intermediate swimmers.
The lifeguards are the
coaches for the swim
team, which is geared
towards more advanced
and competitive swimmers. There is also a
program for children
who have asthma and
obesity issues. The pool’s
asthma program enables
swimmers with asthma
to become physically active while lessening their
asthma condition. The
pool’s obesity program
teaches children about
health education and
the need for physical
exercise.
For adults, there are
times in the day that are
reserved for lap swims.
Adults could get some ex-
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neighbors a happy Dorchester Day
and a joyous summer.
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