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  • Sunday, February 3, 3:00 pm – Howard Johnson’s 28 Flavors

    For most of the twentieth century the orange roof of Howard Johnson’s was a familiar sight along the great American roadside. When a motorist spotted a Howard Johnson’s, they knew exactly what to expect – with standardized menus and building designs, a Howard Johnson’s miles away felt as familiar and comforting as the one back home. Howard Johnson restaurants, in attractive Colonial Revival buildings sporting orange roofs and sea blue shutters opened throughout the New England area. By the late 1930’s, with the popularity of the automobile, these restaurants were opened on major roads and interstate highways where the traveling public could be assured of consistently high quality foods that were the same served locally whether in Maine or Florida. Anthony M. Sammarco has lectured frequently on local Boston history and is the author of more than fifty books on the history of Boston and surrounding cities and towns. His efforts to make history more accessible to the general public have led to many awards and honors. He teaches history at the Urban College of Boston. Anthony will speak on Sunday, February 3, 2013 at the St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 24 Orchard Hill Road in Jamaica Plain. This event is sponsored by the Jamaica Plain Historical Society and is free and open to the public.  For details, contact jphs@jphs.org.

  • Sunday, November 15, 4:00 pm – Forest Hills Cemetery Book Party

    Join author Anthony Sammarco and The Forest Hills Educational Trust on Sunday, November 15 at 4:00 pm at Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Avenue in Jamaica Plain, for the launch party of Mr. Sammarco’s new book, Forest Hills Cemetery, 1848 – 2008.

    This new photographic history of Forest Hills Cemetery  celebrates the 160th anniversary of the cemetery. This book is lavishly illustrated and sales will benefit the Trust’s education and preservation projects.

    Laid out in 1848 as a rural garden cemetery by Henry A.S. Dearborn,  its 275 magnificent acres have been the resting place of people of all walks of life, ethnicities, religion and race. Among these are poet Anne Sexton, playwright Eugene O’Neill, ee cummings and William Lloyd Garrison.

    Forest Hills’ landscape is a museum of sculpture, art and monuments that chronicle the Victorian age to the present. The first crematorium in the United States was here and prominent Bostonian suffragette Lucy Stone was the first person to be cremated at Forest Hills in 1893. An active cemetery and an all embracing place, Forest Hills offers a bucolic and picturesque setting for the “gathering of generations,” and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

    Anthony Sammarco has written over fifty books in the Arcadia series, and is a trustee of the Forest Hills Educational Trust and teaches at the Urban College of Boston.  For more information, and for directions, log on to www.foresthillstrust.org.