Eleven months later, these neighbors still meet outside to sing â every night
By Diti Kohli Globe Correspondent,Updated February 10, 2021, 5:00 a.m.
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Maria Quiroga (foreground) and her husband, Alvin Shiggs, sing with their neighbors every night in Jamaica Plain.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
Every evening since the pandemic shut down Massachusetts more than 300 days ago, a song has moved through one corner of Jamaica Plain.
It carries past the multicolored houses of the Parkside neighborhood. Through the cracks of dimly lit porches. Around the homemade âtake a bookâ box and the basketball hoops. And between the monochromatic trash cans that line the curbs on a Tuesday evening.