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Record Identifier: 0279001-028-030-001

Record Creation Date: 2021-01-21

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Title: Oral history interview with Alice Scola

Creator Name: Boston (Mass.). Office of the Mayor

Type of Resource: oral histories (literary works)

Date Created: circa 1975/1976

Language: english

Conditions Governing Reproduction: In copyright - Non-commercial use permitted

LCSH Subject Heading: North End (Boston, Mass.)

LCSH Subject Heading: Lithuanian Americans

LCSH Subject Heading: Italian Americans

LCSH Subject Heading: Urban renewal

LCSH Subject Heading: Old North Church (North Square, Boston, Mass.)

LCSH Subject Heading: Cooking, Italian

City: tgn:7013445

Neighborhood: tgn:2545160

Collection name and number: Boston 200 records (0279.001)

Box and folder location: Box 28, Folder 30

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Other descriptive data: Interview of Alice Scola, conducted by Tia Talamini. Scola was born in the North End, but moved to Quincy at young age for her father's work. She moved back to live with her aunt in the North End at age fourteen. Scola recounts her marriage to her Italian American husband at age seventeen, which stirred controversy because of Scola’s Lithuanian ethnicity. Scola goes on to describe the close relationship she developed with her Italian mother-in-law and how she became more integrated into the dominant Italian culture of the North End. Scola is asked about different sections of the North End, including Hull Street which she describes as more professional. She also recounts buying her condominium and the complex from her landlady, commenting on the new real estate developments taking place during that time. On the topic of raising children in the North End, Scola speaks about the different reactional and educational features, including the North End Park and the North End Library. The interview ends with Scola's commentary about the North End's historic elements like the Prado and the Old North Church. Other subjects from this interview include Jewish American presence in the North End, gang and criminal activity, funeral traditions in the North End.

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