and next thing i kne i was in west roxbury almost every week.re coming out, they were standing in front of the trucks, stopping the construction, and i supported them. but in terms of getting arrested, i held back. i figured, does the world really need another black person to go to prison? so, finally i got an email from a friend. it talked about how in pakistan, the summer before, 1,300 people had died because of heatwaves-- so many people that grave diggers were starting to dig ditches in anticipation of summer. and the ditches in pakistan looked eerily similar to the ditch in west roxbury. so we decided to have an action to call attention to this, and to mourn all the people who were losing their lives because of climate change. we chose a date, june 29th, my birthday. my birthday's complicated. it's a day i celebrate, but it's also a day that i mourn. anyway, the day came, i was in all black in my full clerical gear, and there was a lot of sun. so, we had a prar service, but we kept it short. and then we jumped in the ditch. standing there,

the motive for the attack is not yet known. agriculture editors, thought roxbury joins me now from cologne. scott, i want to stress that we don't yet have a motive for this attack, but people will no doubt wonder whether it's in fact related to the satanic verses . so remind us what the book is about. yes, thanks. i think a lot of people talk about it and versus without really knowing what it's about because i think it's a book more famous of than read especially now since it's, it's a many decades old. i'm the book itself is not on merely about religion or, or islam. it's a story of 2 indian ex pats living in london who miraculously survive a terrorist attack. and like a lot of rusty's work, it's a satire and it's, it's very fantastic to sort of magically realistic elements throughout the book and what's caused because defense at the time and still does for some people is our dream sequences which are in the book, which are sort of rec, helen's of the traditional story of the life of the prophet mohammed and many muslims at the time took great offensive ad saying it was an insult to their

eileen, and suzanne buchanan executive director of the shirley eustis house right here in boston in roxbury you all for joining us. i am so honored and delighted to have you all here. i want to get us started with

and suzanne -- executive director of the surely uses house right here in boston in roxbury. hi, suzie. thank you all for joining us. i am so honored and delighted to have you all here. i want to get us started with a background on the loyalists. can you give us a brief background on the people who identified as loyalists, whether lives looked like leading up to and during the revolution, and what happened to them after the war? patrick, do you want to start us off on this? >> sure and gina, thanks for having us. so, i see there have been kind of three basic categories of loyalists. there are people who really just wanted her main neutral in the war, but because they were trading in violation of -- or selling livestock to the british, they were -- a lot of the native americans wanted to stay out of the war, but they got sucked into it. there were some religious groups like quaker's amanda knights who were opposed to one principal and were also seen as siding with the british. there were also loyalists who, some of them who believed in tory principles of obeying the king no ma

eileen, and suzanne buchanan executive director of the shirley eustis house right here in boston in roxbury. hi, susie. thank you all for joining us. i am so honored and delighted to have you all here. i want to get us started with a background on the loyalists and can you give us a brief background on the people who identified as loyalists what their lives look like leading up to and during the revolution and what happened to them after the war patrick. do you want to start us off on this? error and gina. thanks for having us. so i i see there's being kind of three basic categories of loyalists. there are people who really just wanted to remain neutral in the war. but because they were trading in violation of nonprotation or selling livestock to the british. they were there. retarded as well a lot of the native americans wanted to stay out of the war, but they got sucked into it. there were some religious groups like quakers and mennonites who were opposed to war in principle and were often seen as deciding with the british. they were also loyalists who some of them who were believed in to

elmira barlow raised her children alone and provided them with the good education first in roxbury at brook farm and later in concord. massachusetts went the family hung out with the likes of ralph waldo emerson. francis proved a brilliant student attending harvard at 17 graduating first in his class in 1855. by then barlow had already developed some of the character traits that would can appear in compelling relief during the civil war. he was very smart supremely self-confident and did not suffer fools lightly. slim and slight of build the gray-eyed five foot 11 inch youth possessed a dynamic and energetic temperament that never failed to impress here is a another picture of francis. after and this is before the war continuing with that after harvard barlow moved to new york city, whereby 1861 he was a partner in a prosperous law firm connected to powerful politicians, and he also dabbled in the newspaper business the 25 year old lawyer became a soldier after fort sumter and he enlisted in a prize as a private in daniel butterfield's 12, new york militia regiment the very day before

but let's look at this particular county, right here, roxbury is in lucerne county, that's trump countyte convincingly two years ago. he carried it back in 2016, when he won pennsylvania over secretary clinton as well. so this is one way to look at the map and say this is trump country, why is the president? there but pennsylvania is incredibly complicated. and the commonwealth has some neat races this year. let's look at it from the house perspective, you see blue all of a sudden. the president is in the district today of democrat matt cartwright. cartwright won narrowly two years ago, he's running for reelection again. democrats are trying to keep the house. this is one the seat we can see, candidates defy history? so, it's a democratic congressional district, but again, if you go back to the presidential race two years ago, won those districts donald trump carried, but is represented by a democrat in congress. so what does that make it? it makes it, as pennsylvania picks candidates for governor this year, as president picks a senator this year, as matt cartwright tries to win reelect

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