Only in Boston by Duncan J.D. Smith

46 North End 18 Remember the Ladies! MA 02109 (North End), the North End Boston Women’s Heritage Trail beginning with the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway at the junction of Hanover Street and Cross Street T Green C/E/Orange Line to Haymarket “Remember the Ladies,” wrote Massachusetts-born Abigail Adams (1744–1814) to her husband John Adams (1735–1826) referring to the women who had helped shape the New Republic. The second Presi- dent of the United States did not heed his wife though, not even in Boston, the self-appointed Cradle of Liberty. Only in 1989 was Abigail Adams’s plea finally answered with the founding of the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail. Taking the well-trod- den Freedom Trail as a template, a group of likeminded teachers and librarians mapped out a city-wide network of self-guided women’s history walks. Each chronicles the valuable contributions made by women to the development of Boston. What follows is their recom- mended walk through the North End. The walk begins with the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway at the junction of Hanover Street and Cross Street. Named in honour of the Boston-born matriarch of the Kennedy Family, it encompasses 300 acres of landscaped gardens (see no. 40). Next head up Salem Street remembering Sophie Tucker (c.1884–1966), a Russian Jewish émigre, who grew up here before becoming a vaudeville singing sensa- tion with songs like My Yiddishe Momme . Turn onto Parmenter Street, where in 1886 at the North End Union a group of philanthropic women created Boston’s first public playground, opposite today’s North End Public Library. Cross Hanover Street and walk along Richmond Street to North Street. Here on the right is the North Bennet Street Industrial School founded in 1881 by Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841–1917) to train newly arrived Italian and Jewish immigrants. America’s first trade school, it relocated here from North Bennet Street in 2013. North Square to the left boasts three locations on the trail. The brick-built house at number 33 was once home to Clementine Poto Langone (1898–1964), who as wife of Massachusetts senator Joseph Langone Jr. helped many Italian immigrants obtain U.S. citizenship. Beyond at number 19 is the former home of Paul Revere and his wife Rachel, who bore eight of the Patriot’s children (see no. 16). The Mari- ners House at number 11 is a former seamen’s mission founded by mag-