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Further Perils of Facebook or How This Boston Newcomer Unwittingly Became the “Face” of the Bunker Hill Day Parade

By abarto | Location: United States | 06/15/09 | Pics: 1

Imagine my surprise, while doing some research online, to come upon my own face in a stranger’s Facebook profile picture.

I was writing a query for a piece about the Bunker Hill Day Parade, a colorful tradition in my Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. Like any savvy free-lancer, I did a quick...

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Election Makes History, and Future, at Mattahunt Elementary in Boston

By abarto | Location: United States | 11/06/08 | Pics: 3

In the year 2000, I stood for hours on Wisconsin street corners, my fingers frozen to a clipboard, trying to persuade fellow students that a vote for the "lesser of two evils"(if only they had recognized how much lesser!) was preferable to a quixotic vote for Ralph Nader. But I'm still basically...

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Bunker Hill Days

By abarto | Location: United States | 06/20/08 | Pics: 4

Even in my brand new “Charlestown Townies” T-shirt, I couldn't help feeling like a poseur at last Sunday’s Bunker Hill Days parade. While the parade is officially intended to commemorate the revolutionary Battle of Bunker Hill, it is really a celebration of Charlestown’s working class Irish...

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Just wanted to see how things were going in Oaxaca...i'm planning on spending some time in Puerto Escondido this summer working in medical clinics and just wanted to hear what you had to say about it. Thanks

by abarto | 2007/02/06

Things are back to normal on the surface. The APPO has periodic marches and the police trot out the barbed wire barricades around the zocalo. I feel torn because I like to see the economy recovering but I don't like to see dissent violently repressed. You'll love Puerto Escondido. It's mostly escaped development, no high rise hotels on the beach like in Huatulco, attracts younger, more bohemian tourists.

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Further Perils of Facebook or How This Boston Newcomer Unwittingly Became the “Face” of the Bunker Hill Day Parade

Election Makes History, and Future, at Mattahunt Elementary in Boston

Bunker Hill Days