Many years ago, the only experience most people in Dorchester and Mattapan had with turkeys was on the last Thursday of November, and those specimens usually came frozen and ready for the oven. While the gobblers had disappeared as everyday wanderers across Massachusetts for more than 100 years until about 1970, a long repatriation effort by state wildlife experts over the
The soft glow of the gas lamps on Wellesley Park signals the preservation of an era long gone for anyone who lives on or passes by this side street of Melville Avenue. It is one of the few streets in Dorchester that have preserved its 19th century gas-lit fixtures. However, with net-zero emissions a primary goal in Boston’s climate planning, the two dozen lamps are set to be