Probably few of the thousands who daily pass the establishment of Robert Seaver & Co on Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, realize that this is the oldest grocery store in Greater Boston and probably in Massachusetts, and that the store has been continuously in the hands of the Seaver family since its foundation by Joshua Seaver in 1706.
Read Moren the taking of land for the Jamaica Park Project in the 1890s not too many houses of the ones that are easily studied today were dismantled since they sat far back from the shore on their Pondside estates.
Read MoreI was born in Roxbury in 1958. By the time I was able to attend school, my family moved to 13 Orchard Street. We lived in a beautiful three-story duplex, just down the street from the new Boy’s Club, which was on the corner of Orchard Street. It was exciting, as a young boy, to see all the building going on down the street from my house.
Read MoreSam Klass, “Scientific Shoe Rebuilder,” learned the cobbler’s trade at his father’s knee, and he kept at it for nearly 40 years at 66 South Street, Jamaica Plain.
Read MoreFew residents of the Jamaica Plain district, if any, can recall the author of children’s histories and of schoolbooks upon an infinite variety of subjects, the publisher of magazines and almanacs, the all-round literary gentleman, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, known as "Peter Parley" at the height of his fame, who built the now vacant stone mansion on Montebello Rd. for his own occupancy in 1833.
Read MoreThese memories are taken from Simple Pleasures, written by Marilyn Moody about her girlhood growing up in Jamaica Plain in the 1950s and 1960s.
Read MoreHatoff and his business have a long Jamaica Plain history. Morris Hatoff, Stan’s father, moved to Boston from New York. He opened Hatoff’s original service station in 1924 on Washington Street, near the present site of the Forest Hills Station.
Read MoreThe late afternoon sun at Jamaica Pond always highlights a relic of the American past probably unnoticed by many who walk or jog by. A free - stone staircase of 25 steps and a landing stretches from the west side of the only private residence left from the era before the creation of the Park, Pinebank Mansion built in 1879, down along the Pond’s slope to the shore path.
Read MoreSylvia Plath's life and death were ruled by dualities: the extremes of poetic passion. So it is no surprise that her birth in Jamaica Plain on October 27, 1932, is a little-known fact while her grave in Yorkshire, England, where the expatriate poet committed suicide at age 30, is a celebrated shrine.
Read MoreBased on 2014 interviews with six staff and board members, each of whom have left their mark on the school’s long history.
Read MoreThis presentation by Richard Vacca, author of The Boston Jazz Chronicles, looks at the career of songwriter Jimmy McHugh, who was born in Jamaica Plain in 1894 and grew up there.
Read Moren 1773, brothers David and John Greenough found themselves embroiled in a bitter controversy, the boycott of tea imported by the East India Company that led to the Boston Tea Party. In December 1773, John Greenough, then a merchant, bought tea salvaged from the William, a ship that went ashore on Cape Cod. This placed him in direct conflict with his neighbors, his town, and his family in Boston where his father and brother were active in the movement to resist Royal authority.
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