0279001-029-012-001

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Record Identifier: 0279001-029-012-001

Record Creation Date: 2021-07-08-04

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Title: Oral history interview with Bernard Fitzgerald

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: Roxbury (Boston, Mass.)

LCSH Subject Heading: Irish Americans

LCSH Subject Heading: Catholic Church

LCSH Subject Heading: Urban renewal

LCSH Subject Heading: Public housing

LCSH Subject Heading: Holidays

City: tgn:7013445

Neighborhood: tgn:7015002

Collection name and number: Boston 200 records (0279.001)

Box and folder location: Box 29, Folder 12

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Other descriptive data: Interview with Bernard Fitzgerald conducted by Judy Neiswander. His wife, Eileen, may have also contributed to portions of the interview. Fitzgerald talks about the neighborliness of those living in Mission Hill while he was growing up, and how people would go to great lengths to help each other. He describes July 4th and Christmas celebrations which included fireworks in Mission Hill and around Boston and midnight mass at Mission Hill Church (Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help) for Christmas. Fitzgerald also talks about recreational activities such as Irish dance nights held at Hibernian Hall, Colonial Hall (Intercolonial Hall), and Mac’s Tap and Grill, sledding down Mission Hill, and rental riding horses. Fitzgerald also speculates that the demolition of triple deckers to build high rise buildings next to Mission Church caused the parish to lose many people.Other topics include Irish immigrants, paper mills, breweries, bootleg operations during the Prohibition, ice peddlers, vegetable peddlers who sold fish for Catholics who fasted on Fridays, horse stables, ragmen, trolley lines, the positive influence of priests on people’s mental health, hospitals such as Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, New England Hospital, and Harvard University buying property in the area, and opinions on why people left or chose to stay in Mission Hill.

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