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Father George "Jerry" Hogan Pilot file photo Help us expand our reach! Please share this article Father George "Jerry" Hogan, a priest of the archdiocese since his 1974 ordination, died on May 5 at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, at 75. The occasion of his death brought accolades for his kindness, his wonderful sense of humor, and his outstanding priestly service. More impressive were the tributes from his brother priests who, to a man, recounted Jerry's fraternal interest in priests and his evident happiness in any and all of his assignments. A Woburn native born on April 13, 1946, a...

Mildred Gillars, an American citizen living in Germany, found herself caught up in the German propaganda machine. Was she guilty of treason?

And more are coming, says her scoutmaster, Justine Gonzalez. “This is a pretty big deal,” Gonzalez says. “This will be the first of many.” Wolfe earned the rank in February after working on it for two years. She’s one of about 1,000 U.S. girls who made up the first wave of female Eagle Scouts awarded last month. It wasn’t easy, Wolfe admits. “It was a lot of work,” she says. “I actually didn’t think I was gonna make it.” But she did. And her parents couldn’t be prouder. Especially her dad — a former Eagle Scout, himself.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and titan of the Beat era, dies at 101 Elaine Woo © (Stacey Lewis / Stacey Lewis) Lawrence Ferlinghetti outside City Lights Bookstore in 2013. (Stacey Lewis) Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the opposite of the flamboyant literary bad boys drawn to the bohemian haven he nurtured in 1950s San Francisco. Unlike Beat novelist Jack Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg, he was known for neither public drunkenness nor public nudity. Tall and lean, he swam daily and biked to work at City Lights, the San Francisco bookshop that became a landmark of intellectual free...

Poet, Beat-era titan Ferlinghetti dies at 101 American Beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, left, and Allen Ginsberg at the Albert Memorial in South Kensington, London, on June 11, 1965. (M. Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/TNS) M. Stroud Published: 2/23/2021 3:52:13 PM Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the San Francisco poet, publisher and bookseller who played a leading role in West Coast literary history as a champion of Beat writer Allen Ginsberg and co-founder of the legendary City Lights bookstore, has died at his Bay Area home. Ferlinghetti died Monday evening, according to Starr Sut...