Health & Fitness
Learn About The BOSTON MOB @ Tewksbury Library
The Boston Globe's Stephanie Schorow and Boston Herald's Beverly Ford discuss their brand new book -- "The Boston Mob Guide."
On Wednesday, March 7 at 6:30pm, join authors Beverly Ford & Stephanie Schorow as they discuss their new book, The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums & Hideouts.
About The Book: The capture of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history. Yet the city's criminal underworld has a long and bloody rap sheet that stretches back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Boston journalists Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow reveal the underbelly of Boston through profiles of ruthless gangsters like Charles "King" Solomon, the Angiulo brothers, Joseph "The Animal" Barboza, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi and many more. Ford and Schorow navigate the backrooms and seedy hangouts where deadly hits and lucrative heists were hatched to guide readers to the real story of Boston's gangster past.
About The Authors: Beverly Ford is a Boston-based journalist and author who has spent more than twenty years as a reporter and freelance writer for the Boston Herald, the New York Daily News, the London Times, the London Mirror, Access Magazine, Bloomberg News and other publications. She has written about mob murders and court trials involving several people profiled in this book. She currently works as a freelance investigative journalist for the New England Center for Investigative Journalism. Stephanie Schorow is a Boston-based freelance writer, author, teacher and artist. She is the author of The Crime of the Century: How the Brink's Robbers Stole Millions and the Hearts of Boston; East of Boston: Notes from the Harbor Islands (The History Press, 2008); Boston on Fire: A History of Fires and Firefighting in Boston; and The Cocoanut Grove Fire. She was the editor of Boston's Fire Trail: A Walk Through the City's Fire and Firefighting History (The History Press, 2007). She has spent thirty years working for various news organizations, including the Boston Herald, the TAB chain, the Stamford Advocate and the Associated Press. She currently works as a freelancer for the Boston Globe and teaches writing at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.
For those interested, a book selling and signing will follow this event.
Fine Print: Talk will be held in the Meeting Room. Doors open at 6:15pm. Talk begins at 6:30pm. Seating is limited. The room is handicap accessible. A door prize will be awarded. Pre-registration is STRONGLY recommended as it aids the performer and staff with planning. Register by stopping by the Reference Desk; calling 978-640-4490 x 205; or by clicking HERE. Talk is FREE thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Tewksbury Public Library.
