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INA'S INSIGHTS: Memories of growing up on Revere’s ‘Shirley Ave.’ Ina Michele Resnikoff / Columnist No species on earth loves to reminisce about the good old days as does the collective hailing from Revere, and nobody does that better than Dr. Donald Feldman – who was originally from Revere, later from Swampscott. Life in the 1950s and 60s was “shtetle-like” for the two dominant groups of the times: Italians and Jews. Revere has seen a number of ethnic and cultural changes over the years, a true melting pot for immigrants, for Asians and Latinx and Arabs. There has always been an...

good evening. this is it. we are back in the lower ninth ward tonight, the one iconic post katrina new orleans neighborhood people have heard about all over the world. the old neighborhood was all still here in place five years ago tonight. that's because katrina was still offshore in the gulf, bearing down, but still at least two days out. the flood wall behind us is new. when the old one failed, this neighborhood got blown to pieces, washed away. it became, as we said, an icon for the damage and the suffering. we'll see how the lower ninth ward is faring in just a moment. we want t...

good evening. this is it. we are back in the lower ninth ward tonight, the one iconic post katrina new orleans neighborhood people have heard about all over the world. the old neighborhood was all still here in place five years ago tonight. that's because katrina was still offshore in the gulf, bearing down, but still at least two days out. the flood wall behind us is new. when the old one failed, this neighborhood got blown to pieces, washed away. it became, as we said, an icon for the damage and the suffering. we'll see how the lower ninth ward is faring in just a moment. we want t...