Author: mtc9393

Today is as good as any to conclude my South Boston series because if you are from Boston you cannot think of St. Patrick’s Day without thinking of the South Boston parade which I went to in my early years as a child and teenager. It used to be celebrated on March 17 and not…

Folks —  I have been advised (thanks to Kerry) I already posted what I put out at 8:00 am this morning on a prior occasion as number 5/8. I am extremely grateful for his help especially the way he was able to  the sleuth out my telephone number. This could have happened because of an…

I’ve written over the past two days about South Boston and how its relationship with the Boston media has never been good because of the media’s animus toward it. I’ve pointed out how the many good things its sons and daughters have done are overlooked by the media in order to present it as a…

A day or two later Raymond found a grand jury subpoena in his hand. He went before the grand jury, denied he ever said he was the mayor’s bag man or that he brought cash to him. He was indicted for perjury. In the eyes of the FBI a drunk’s tale was worthy of belief….

Yesterday I wrote how the media had vilified South Boston over the years. Despite the evidence otherwise it cruelly portrays the people in that small section of the city as being a uniform barrel full of bigots. Those who do it are usually people who have little connection with Southie people. Some may have lived…

Al then tells us he started to figure out who did it by seeing similarities between it and an earlier art theft where the painting was cut from the frame even thought the earlier one was in 1966. He says first of all it is clear to him the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum thieves had…