Who is Using My Boston Monument Guide Book? The Dozens of People Who have attended My Thomas Crane Public Library Talk Quincy, MA

Book signing and Talk at Thomas Crane Public Library Quincy, MA

Thank you for having me give a talk on Boston's Monuments. Hopefully, my guide book "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us"will assist the people who attended my presentation for the upcoming summer months ahead. Go Sox!

My book can be found on Amazon.com and local book stores.

all the best,

joe gallo

Cy Young of the Boston Americans

The 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series played in Major League Baseball. The Boston Americans verses the Pittsburg Pirates, the Boston Americans won! The Boston Americans have become the Boston Red Sox today.

Who is Using My Book As A Guide to Boston's Monuments Boston, MA?

Ms Gallager and The Diamond Middle School Students beginning their adventure in seeking the dozens of Boston Monuments in Boston, MA are here below at the Fenway entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA

Using my guide book "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" as their tool to discover the many art/historic treasures within our great city of Boston, they find here Antonio Lopez Garcia sculptors' modern sculpture " Night and Day" . Lopez was first  associated with "magic realism"and juxtaposed peculiar nominations of images people and places, resulting in mysterious interesting compositions such is the one below.

" The hallmark of Lopez's work is its timelessness; he is an old master in the contemporary world," said exhibition curator Cheryl Brutvan MFA. 

Inspired by his two grandchildren one awake the other asleep "Baby Head" amazes all of us of the simple wonders of this world.

Ms Diane Gallager and Diamond  Middle School Students

Thank you to the Diamond Middle School Students and Staff for another exciting year.

Joe Gallo author of " Boston Bronze and Stone Speak to Us" a guide book to the hundreds of monuments in our great city of Boston, MA.

Another Exciting Boston Bronze and Stone Talk With Both Students and Teachers at The Lexington, MA Diamond Middle School

Always a pleasure to have lunch and give a talk to the students and staff at Diamond Middle School in Lexington, MA about Boston's Monuments. My yearly talk consists of a brief explanation of the many dozens of Boston's Monuments created and erected for all of us to learn about our great leaders past and present. My talk prepares these students for their yearly field trip adventure into Boston. When the Diamond School  students find and discover these historical artistic works on the streets of Boston, it is both a fun and educational experience for all.

Healthy Lunch Prepared by Ms Diane Gallagher Teacher

Yes, 80 Attentive, Inquisitive and Well Behaved Seventh Graders

My presentation and the interactive educational activities provided by the school staff, that follows my talk, reinforces these students excitement, interest and involvement about further learning of Boston's leaders, Boston's 500 year history and Boston's art and artists.

The love of learning between student and teacher is the highest of all the loves. Teaching students to learn for themselves is of the highest order as both Socrates and Plato have always said us.

Thank you for inviting me once again!

Joe Gallo

Author of "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us"

"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us"would like to share a most wonderful Letter and Request About John F Parimino.

Just a few of John F Parimino sculptural works in Boston MA.

John F Paramino was Boston Mayor Michael James Curly's favorite sculptor for Boston, MA during the early twentieth century.

Joe Gallo Author

Commodore John Barry by John F Parimino

Declaration of Independence by John F Parimino

Marque de Lafayette by John F Parimino

Nike WWII Peace Monument John F Parimino

'Hello Mr Gallo,

My mother came out from Seattle to visit Lexington/Concord/Arlington/Boston (all the family history) and thanks to you, we were able to see a number of my grandmother's brother's pieces.

When I took her to see Paramino's sculpture of Nike (Back Bay Fens, WWII veteran's memorial), there was a crew there fixing some 70 years of wear and tear; the man in charge explained to me that the city (the mayor, i think) is re-dedicating the entire memorial.

Since my father's death a few years ago, I am the only person in New England left related to John Francis Paramino ... but his two nieces are still alive and still travel very much.

I will attend the re-dedication of course, but as with Lexington/Arlington/Concord, I would like my great aunts to be invited to be part of the ceremony.

I'd have to email the Mayor's office, I believe, to notify them but I'm afraid they will not understand my intentions here; I am poor and unknown and not looking for connections, but preserving the family history is something I've dedicated ... well, you know how much it takes to preserve history; it's a different kind of investment. 

Thanks for any advice and such.   I gotta email Sam (Bela Pratt's grand-daughter) who is a very wonderful lady and one of the few friends I have and see what she thinks too.   You two seem to know exactly what I'm thinking irregardless of the words I'm saying.

Thank you very kindly and sincerely,
Jonathan Parker Cutter'

I wrote a letter to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to include this family at the rededication of the WWII monument  designed by John F Parimino family member.


'huh, that was a lot easier than I thought.  Thank you very kindly, for a couple things actually; the book is beautiful of course but it is also incredibly useful.  Half the places we went last week I had learned about from Bronze and Stone.   To us, it's more like a reference guide to family history.  After Lexington/Concord/Arlington, I didn't know where to take my mom for her vacation; those celebrations basically occur over 3-4 days.  So we went to Cambridge for the WWII, then little Italy for the equestrian statue ... she was wondering who Cyrus Dallin was and why the Jefferson Cutter House was better known as the Cyrus Dallin Museum.  We missed the Appeal to the Great Spirit though, but that was more my fault.  Last time they visited, when dad was alive, it was the same with the State House.  "The Gallo says there should be a bas-relief on the staircase somewhere...ah, right there!"  And etc.'

Thank you very sincerely,
Jonathan Parker Cutter

"Boston Bronze and Stone Sp[eak To us" can be purchased on Amazon.com, Old North Church Gift Shoppe, Fanuel Hall Book Store Boston, MA

Thank you Fran Wiesse From Joe Gallo "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us"

Great turn out at the Welesley Hills Universalist Unitarian Church 40th kick off Anniversary of "The Wellesley Weston Life Time Learning Presentations". Many attendees dozens of books sold!

Joe,

Thank you so much for your excellent presentation to Wellesley Weston Lifetime Learning today.  As predicted, it was a grand start for our spring semester.

I heard so many enthusiastic comments!  You've certainly set the bar for the rest of our classes.  

Now to schedule a few walking tours as the days grow warmer and longer.

Fran

 

Fran Weisse

Boston Massacre 246 Years Old March 5, 1770 - 2016 and Boston Bronze and Stone Spring Talk Schedule 2016

Boston Massacre Remembered after 246 years.

Robert Kraus Boston Massacre Monument

Boston Common Boston Bronze and Stone Speak o Us

Based on Paul Reveres' Lithograph "The Boston Massacre"1770

Boston Massacre Monument 1888
Boston Common /Lafayette Mall Tremont Street Robert Kraus (1850-1902), Sculptor Bronze / Stone

Freedom is symbolically victorious, cast in this bronze sculpture by Kraus.
This very dramatic Freedom, depicted with the flag, a broken chain, an American eagle, and a trod-upon British crown, are positioned before a column with the names of the five Bostonians killed by British soldiers in the 1770 encounter. The high relief bronze plaque below depicting the massacre features an extended hand which visitors love to shake, keeping it polished. Crispus Attucks, famed as the first black to give his life for this nation, lies in the foreground. His shoe also protrudes from the relief and visitors keep that polished as well.

"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" Spring Talk  Schedule 2016.

March 7th 2016 10:00 am - 11:00 am;  Unitarian- Universalist Church 309 Washington Street in Wellesley, MA

Thank you Fran Weisse of Wellesley -Weston Lifetime Learning Presentation of the "Greater Boston Cultural Institution"for inviting me.

May 17th 2016 7:00 PM; Thomas Crane Public Library 40 Washington Street Quincy, MA 02169.

Thank you Clayton Cheever for inviting me.

May 19th 2016 11:40 am - 1:00 PM;  University Of Mass Boston Campus ,OLLI Spring Brown Bag Presentation/ "Boston Bronze and stone Monuments and America's Leadership.

Thank you Merrilyn Quinian.

May 20 th 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00PM; Diamond Middle School , Lexington, MA Thank you MS Diane Gallagher for inviting me.

"Boston Bronze and Sone Speak To Us "book can be purchased on Amazon.com and local bookstores

Edgar Allen Poe Monument; A Year Later Boston, MA

"Boston Bronze and Stone Speaks To Us" Salutes the one year anniversary of "Edgar Allen Poe Monument and all those who have participated in its completion.


Some Secrets shared by Those who Care about this Great Boston Poet written below.

A sculpture by Stefanie Rocknak "Poe Returns Home"


"One of the best-kept secrets in Boston's literary history concerns the most influential writer ever born here: Edgar Allan Poe. And the secret is this: he was born here! Over the past 200 years, leading up to the bicentennial of Poe's birth on January 19, 2009, his connections to other East Coast cities—Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York—have been celebrated and memorialized. While each of these cities hosts a museum or historic house that commemorates Poe's standing as a local author, Boston has made itself conspicuous for its apparent determination to treat the master of mystery—America's first great critic and a foundational figure in the development of popular culture—like an undeserving orphan. This attitude is all the more fascinating because it can be traced back to the antebellum period, involves a war of words as snarky as any from that time, and is based on a misunderstanding of the importance of Boston to Poe's development. It turns out that both Poe the baby and Poe the writer and critic were born in the same place.

Mounted at the end of the Poe bicentennial year, THE RAVEN IN THE FROG POND uses materials from the collections of the Boston Public Library, the American Antiquarian Society, Susan Jaffe Tane, and M. Thomas Inge to tell the complex story of Poe's relation to the city of his birth. While it’s true that Poe fought a career-long battle against Boston-area authors, whose moralistic poems and stories sounded to him like the croaking of frogs, it’s also true that he had positive feelings about the place. He knew that his mother had found her best friends here. He discovered his first literary mentor, and published his first and last works here. Indeed, his decision to move here in 1827 and his determination to move back in the weeks before his unexpected death in 1849 suggest that he thought of Boston as a place of refuge and new beginnings."

By Boston Public Library " Raven in The Frog Pond"

Online Exhibit

Slideshows

Poe's Life in Boston

Poe's Quarrel with Boston Writers

Interactive

Poe, Boston, and the Publishing Industry

Poe in Popular Culture

Illustrated Poe

December 17, 2009 -
March 31, 2010

Cheverus Room, Third Floor
McKim Building
Copley Square Entrance

Opening events on
December 17, 2009

Exhibition:

6 p.m. Cheverus Room

Great Poe Debate
December 17, 2009 Rabb Lecture Hall Johnson Building 

-Video from WGBH

For information contact:
617-552-3710

For additional information about Poe and Boston, visit the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston, Inc. 

Research Team: Paul Lewis (Curator), Dan Currie (Associate Curator), Megan Grandmont, Katherine Kim, Sarah Poulette, and Rob Velella.

Special thanks to the following Boston Public Library staff for their assistance: Susan Glover, Sean Casey, Ronald Grim,
Beth Prindle, Kimberly Reynolds, Aaron Schmidt, Karen Shafts, Stuart Walker, and Jane Winton. 

The Raven in the Frog Pond is sponsored by Susan Jaffe Tane, the Boston Public Library and Boston College Libraries, American Studies Program, College of Arts & Sciences, English Department, Institute of the Liberal Arts, Jesuit Institute, and Newton College Alumnae Chair in Western Culture.

Graphics work by Brandon Bird Design and Rachel Gregorio, Media Technology Services, Boston College.

Image created by Kerry Burke, Media Technology Services, Boston College

October 2015 Edgar Allen Poe

A most beautiful flowing dynamic bronze. Filled with action determination conviction and symbolism. A true work of art speaking to us all through the genius of the artist Stefanie Rocknak.

Joe and Edgar