More Stories about Immigrants
Dreams of Freedom Immigration Museum
Immigrant
Boston Walking Tour
Irish Storyteller
Chinatown
Mural
West Indian Festival
Charlie
Chaplin movie "The Immigrant"
Italian Family History
Boston
Police Band
Polish
Dancers
Dreams of Freedom -- Boston's Immigration Museum
This musuem is at One Milk Street in downtown Boston. At the museum,
immigrants (dolls) from different countries talk about their stories.
Get your passport stamped. Take a test like the citizenship test.
Learn vocabulary about refugees and immigrants. See how Boston has
changed over time. Listen to famous people. Watch videos about
festivals and about refugees. See a great 22-minute movie about Boston
immigration with actors playing
famouspeople:
Mary Antin, Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Phyllis Wheatley,
Governor Bradford, Patrick Kennedy, and Benjamin Franklin! (He is not
an immigrant himself but he was born in that building.)
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Immigrant Boston Walking Tour
Welcome to Boston Family History
http://www.bostonfamilyhistory.com/
Click on the button to see timelines, pictures, and information on
Boston Immigrant groups.
Click on the timelines too.
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Mill worker
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Sharon Kennedy
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Boott Mill
worker
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Sharon Kennedy tells Irish stories in schools around Boston. In this
picture, she is a 15-year-old girl from Ireland named Mary Margaret
O'Connell. The year is 1847. She works 13 hours a day in a textile mill
in Lowell, Massachusetts. There she uses a weaving machine to make cloth
for $4 a week. She gives the money to her family. Because she is
working, her lucky older brother can go to high school. Her younger
sister died of fever. Her father is a canal digger and her mother does
housework for a rich family.
Based on an article in the Allston TAB
March 8, 2001 by Frederick Melo
Photos: #1 University of Pittsburgh Dept. of History, #2 David
Williams, #3 James Higgins
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Chinatown
Mural
This picture (mural) was painted on a building on Oak Street in
Boston's Chinatown. From 1987 to 2002, the building was part of BCNC
(Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center) where Chinese adults studied ESL.
In 2002, the building was torn down, so it is not there now. There will
be a big new community center on Oak Street when it is finished in 2004.
Hundreds of people helped paint this mural, supervised by two artists,
Wen-ti Tsen and David Fichter. The mural shows the history of
Asian-Americans in Boston. The beautiful Chinese cloth that the woman is
stitching goes from the past to the future. A copy of this mural will be
inside the new building.
Based on a Boston Chinatown
Neighborhood Center article about the Chinatown Community Mural
Photograph by David Caras
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This is a steel band in Boston. They play steel oil drums that are cut
open. The name of the band is Branches Pan Groove Steel Orchestra.
Most people in the band are from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean.
There are about 60 people in the group from seven years old to adult.
Most members are under 18. They practice six hours every week and more
in the summer.
At the end of the summer, they play in the Boston Caribbean Carnival in
Franklin Park, Roxbury. It is a West Indian festival with people from
Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Barbados, Haiti, and Antigua and people
from the U.S. too. Over 500,000 people come to have a good time on this
day. West Indians started the Carnaval in 1973.
http://justintime-productions.com
Click on this page to listen to the Carnival music and look at
pictures. You have to click ÂStop the music' or it will keep playing!
Also click on Band Photos and then More Photos and move to the right to
see all the pictures. Do the same thing when you click on Boston
Caribbean Carnival.
http://bostoncarnival.org
Here you can hear a West Indian carnival song here.
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This is Charlie Chaplin in the 1915 short silent film 'The Immigrant'.
In the movie, he is coming to America in a ship with other immigrants.
He tries to walk and eat soup on the moving boat. , from walking on
board to eating soup. He meets a young woman who is taking care of her
sick mother. Chaplin is falsely accused of stealing money on the boat,
but it comes out OK. At the end of the trip, near America, they see the
Statue of Liberty for the first time.
When he arrives, he has no money and can't find a job. Then he finds
money on the ground. Now he can eat! He goes into a restaurant and
eats. He finds the young woman in the same restaurant. She is crying
because her mother has died. He tries to help her feel better. Then
suddenly the waiter hits a customer who doesn't have enough money. When
he checks for his coin, it is lost. At the end the two of them get
jobs, pay the check and get married.
After several moments of hilarity, as Chaplin realizes his condition
and the head waiter comes over with his check, all is made right as an
artist (Henry Bergman) hires them both as models -- they pay the bill,
leave, and get married, to live, of course, happily ever after.
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Italian
Family History
The Povinelli grandparents are from Carisolo, Italy in the Val Rendena. On this page they
introduce the family and show beautiful pictures from their visits to
Italy. On the page you can also see how to cook Italian food. You can
see a street in Italy right now through a web camera. You can see people
playing bocce, an Italian ball game, and you can see the page written in Italian
too.
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Boston
Police Band
Boston Police Gaelic Column of Pipes and Drums
http://www.bostonpolicepipes.org/
Click here.
Listen to the bagpipes play 'The Wearin of the Green'
Look at photos of police trip to Ireland
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Polish
Dancers
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