Last month, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey submitted bill H4172, An Act Honoring, Empowering, and Recognizing our Servicemembers and Veterans, also known as.
Boston’s newest public statue was unveiled earlier this month inside a memorial park near Roxbury’s Nubian Square. The dedication ceremony deserved more attention than it received from the larger community, in part because it happened at the height of summer vacation; and perhaps, in part, because there was no whiff of controversy surrounding this particular sculpture. The
Edward O. Gourdin is said to have been a man of firsts, and on Tuesday, community members and his family locked their eyes on a statue in his honor for the first time in Roxbury’s Nubian Square