Local historian Alison Barnet’s latest column for the South End News is about long-time South Ender and artist Hal Trafford. Find it here.
Excerpt: “One night in the very early 1950s, Hal Trafford, on shore leave from the Navy, walked from the Silver Dollar downtown, “home port for swabbies,” into the South End. He found himself standing at the corner of Washington and East Brookline streets looking at a pile of rubble that was in the process of becoming Cathedral Housing…” More here.
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