Rebecca McGlynn's Blog

Italians congregated in ethnic neighborhoods in settings such as San Francisco's North Beach, Boston's North End and Chicago's Nineteenth Ward. Over the summer I took a trip to Boston with my mom and we stayed near the North End. This is one of the dishes I got at Bricco Restaurant. Boston is home to many immigrants migrating here and forming their own neighborhoods when they settled making Boston a very diverse place. The North end is notable for its Italian community "Boston's Little Italy". The first Italian immigrants arrived in the North End in the 1860's. It's authentic culture is still embraced as you can see when you go down their streets. They have numerous Italian restaurants- you can tell the food is homemade and probablywith generation old recipes.  Another place I visited in Boston adding to the Italian culture is "Mike's Pastry". Founded in 1946. Mike's Pastry is located on the North. End on Hanover Street.  Michael Merc

  While researching different types of garages and learning the history behind them I came across this picture and wanted to do more research on it. This home in Fairmont is from early 1900s. Apparently this was before automobiles were in use and during the horse drawn carriage era. We know this because the the concrete block that has the owner's last name was used as a step to get out of the carriage and the two pyramid shaped stones were used for the horse. If you look closely there are hoops and that to attach the horses reigns to Most houses had carriage houses which I guess is essentially similar to barns and farm houses today. Before automobiles this is where they would keep their horses and carriages and then as the automobiles became more popular they were replaced with garages and cars  Initially garages were detached from the rest of the house. I found that this was for the reason due to the risk of gasoline explosions since the gas used to be stored there. Garages were m