Dear Parents,We hope you and your family are doing well as the holiday season approaches.The Circle of Vietnamese Parents warmly invites you to our annual holiday gathering! This year’s celebration will take place at Phở Quê Restaurant (291 Adams St, Dorchester, MA 02122) from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM on Saturday, December 20, 2025. There is plenty of street parking nearby. …
Most Americans are familiar with the Pilgrim’s Thanksgiving Feast of 1621, but few realize that it was not the first festival of its kind in North America. Long before Europeans set foot in the Americas, native peoples sought to insure a good harvest with dances and rituals such as the Green Corn Dance of the Cherokees. The first Thanksgiving service …
A classroom at Excel Academy in East Boston, taken during 2009 visit by Gov. Deval Patrick (among observers at back of the room). (Chris Lovett photo) New studies show a Greater Boston population becoming more racially diverse, but also more disconnected by income, and by shifting educational choices following the Covid-19 pandemic. As multiple figures show, the “big sort” declared …
