A home in the heart of a city
By: Kathleen Hirsch.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Hirsch, Kathleen -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Community life -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Neighborhood -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Jamaica Plain (Boston, Mass.) -- Social conditions; Jamaica Plain (Boston, Mass.) -- Social life and customs
Description: In Jamaica Plain, an unassuming neighborhood in Boston, we meet extraordinary individuals, including the protector of a local park, a master framer, an urban gardener, and a corporate lawyer turned community advocate.

They become Kathleen Hirsch's guides, and ours, revealing the ancient truth that living well in community is as much about the personal choices we make to work, play, and associate in certain ways, as it is about the grassroots connections we foster in the shops and on neighborhood streets, in the pubs and projects, that mature into traditions, lore, and institutions. Where we experience our common humanity, we forge a common life.