Neponset Greenway End of Winter Bike Ride

Dorchester's Fifth Annual St. Patrick's Day Brunch

New England Irish Harp Orchestra and Réagánta

The Dorchester House Multi-Service Center is hosting will be hosting an Asthma Fun Fair on Saturday. This health-conscious event will include refreshments and fun activities for the whole family! 

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Come re-trace the steps of the patriotic troops who fortified Dorchester Heights with the Dorchester Historical Society. The walk will involve visiting Dorchester Heights monument in Thomas Park, following the trail of the troops and the Knox cannons sent to defend the Heights. Bob Allison, Chair of the History Department at Suffolk University, will be a guest speaker so dress warmly and be ready to absorb tons of great historical knowledge! 

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Gospel Brunch at Dot 2 Dot Cafe   

Women's Month Mini-Showcase & Party

Boston Budget Speakout   

"Behind The Music" of Boston City Singers

PACT Public Safety Meeting

The Fields Corner Collaborative will launch MyDotTour: a youth-led tour of Dorchester's past, present, and future. Coordinator Kate Balug, who has worked with multi-media projects in Mexico City and in Rio de Janeiro, will host a youth charrette in order to plan this exciting project on Thursday, March 24th. The FCC is hiring teen interns for the program, as well as college-aged guides helping to develop content and public presentations. This is a great opportunity for youth to build up their resumes and get to know the Dorchester community!

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Are you having difficulty walking, getting in and out of a chair, or climbing stairs? If so you may be eligible for The LIFE Study at Tufts University. The goal of The LIFE Study is to find out how older people can make changes in their lifestyles to help them remain independent for a longer period of time. Transportation options are available and participants will receive monetary compensation for their time when clinic visits are completed. 

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With support from the 2011 John Hancock Non-Profit Bib Program, Jen Gillingham & Ryan Flynn will proudly represent the Dorchester FAMILY School Initiative in the 115th Boston Marathon! DFSI is a partnership serving students and their families at three elementary schools in the Codman Square neighborhood. The runners aren't the only ones getting involved, each school is having a penny drive where students bring in spare change to support their schools.  Gillingham and Flynn are also using this experience as a teaching opportunity, talking with their students about how they are training and discussing the importance of proper fitness and nutrition. Family members, friends, neighbors, and local vendors are encouraged to donate to the Dorchester FAMILY School Initiative marathon team.

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Save The Date(s) 

New Photo: Email eBlast@mydorchester.org if you know the location of the photo below and we will give you recognition in the next eBlast!

Dorchester Flashback

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1502

 

Charles Follen Adams was born in Dorchester, Norfolk County, April 21, 1842.  He was the youngest but one of ten children.  He received a common school education, and leaving the grammar school in Dorchester at fifteen years of age, went as a boy into the well-known house of N.D. Whitney & Co., Boston, to learn the business.  He was afterwards salesman in the same house, then went into business for himself with John D. Clapp, under the firm name of J.D. Clapp & Co. In 1872 he became a partner in the firm of Nicholson & Adams, hair goods for ladies' wear, and later on made a change in business to furnishing supplies for the five, ten and twenty-five cent counters that have had such a phenomenal run-the firm name being Newell, Adams & Co.  He sold out his interest January 1, 1885, and is now doing a manufacturing and commission, in addition to his journalistic work. 

 

At the age of twenty, August, 1862, he enlisted in the 13^th regiment Massachusetts volunteers, and was in the battles of Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg-wounded in the latter and held prisoner for three days. After his recovery he was detailed as wardmaster in the convalescent hospital at Washington, where he remained until his term of service expired, in August, 1864.  He returned home and established the business that has since demanded his attention. The literary portion of his life is only his diversion, never interfering with his methodical business habits. 

 

Charles Follen Adams, however is best known from his humorous and dialectic poems, he having sprung into recognition at once upon the production of his "Leedle Yawcob Strauss."  His first effort at rhyme was written in 1870, and his first dialectic verse, "The Puzzled Dutchman," appeared in 1872.  From that time he was an occasional contributor to Boston papers, "Oliver Optic's Magazine," "Scribner's Monthly," and others until 1876 when "Leedle Yawcob Strauss" appeared in the "Detroit Free Press," since which time his poems have appeared in that paper, "Harper's Magazine," and other publications.  The house of Lee & Shepard, published Mr. Adams's first volume of poems, entitled Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems.  His second volume, entitled Dialect Ballads, was published by Harper & Brothers, New York (1887), being a companion to the former volume.  

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