SELECTED EVENT PHOTOS
ABOVE: Alex with staff members of the Boston African American National Historic Site, which co-sponsored his appearance with Historic New England at HNE's Otis House Museum in Boston's West End.
BELOW: "Investigating 'New Guinea' -- Evidence for a Black Community in Boston's North End in the 1600s" was Alex's second lecture at the Otis House.
BELOW: Alex facilitated a cultural competency workshop at the national offices of Year Up in downtown Boston.
BELOW: Alex and Steven Greenberg, Executive Director of the Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture, pointing to a map of the city. Alex presented "Four Centuries of Immigration in Boston" at the Vilna in Boston's West End.
ABOVE & BELOW: Alex with Elaine Grublin, Reference Librarian, and Jayne Gordon, Director of Education & Public Programs, at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Alex spoke about "The Eliot School and the Catholic Exodus of 1859," a bloody clash in the North End.
ABOVE: Alex leads a walking tour, in unseasonably cold weather, called "Ten Years of Resistance and Rebellion" on the 235th anniversary of Paul Revere's signal lanterns at the Old North Church. Photo by Gabrielle Tassone.
ABOVE & BELOW: Alex enjoying dinner and conversation with a book club in Boston's Brighton neighborhood that chose to read his The North End: A Brief History of Boston's Oldest Neighborhood.
ABOVE: Alex with Leah Walczak, Regional Site Manager for Historic New England, and Manager of HNE's Otis House Museum in Boston's West End. Alex talked about three centuries of North End history.
BELOW: Alex interacts with a full room at the Otis House Museum.
BELOW: Alex with Richard Hynes, a history professor at Boston University who invited Alex to speak to his History of Boston class.
ABOVE: Alex with Dr. James Pasto, a sociologist and lecturer in the writing program at Boston University who is using The North End: A Brief History of Boston's Oldest Neighborhood in two of his courses.
BELOW: Alex speaks to one of the classes using his book at Boston University.
BELOW: Alex gives a short talk at Borders Bookstore in Boston's bustling Downtown Crossing shopping district.
BELOW: Alex is ready to sign some books at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Boston's Prudential Center mall.
BELOW: Alex with Janet Buda, Branch Librarian at Boston's North End Branch Library.
BELOW: Alex autographs a book for one of the 35 people who attended his presentation on the North End's "Colonial Controversies" at the North End Branch Library.
ABOVE: Alex speaks to about 40 people in the auditorium at the Dante Alighieri Society's cultural center in Cambridge. His presentation was called "The North End: Before Little Italy."
BELOW: Alex was introduced by Dr. Spencer Di Scala, President of the Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts and Historian of the Massachusetts Italian-American Heritage Month Committee.
BELOW: Alex with Glendora Putnam, Esq., former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in Massachusetts and Chair of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. Alex and Ms. Putnam were featured speakers for an event on Beacon Hill in support of the Women of Color Committee of the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts. Photo by Lisa Brown.
BELOW: Alex speaks to a crowd of over 100 people who filled the "box pews" in Boston's historic Old North Church.
Built in 1723, the Old North Church is the oldest surviving church building in Boston, and it was the site of the launch event for Alex's book, The North End: A Brief History of Boston's Oldest Neighborhood, on July 22, 2009.
The event was sponsored by the Old North Foundation, the Boston African American National Historic Site, and The History Press. These photos were taken by Heather Hartford.
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