Six Minutes to Midnight

Author's Note: The North End of Boston is a special place that first housed English Settlers in three-story brick tenements lining skinny European-like cobblestone streets. As the years went on European immigrants of Jewish, then Irish, and finally Italian descent settle there. My grandparents settled there in the early 1900’s and lived there their entire lives. For their children, the journey from the streets of the North End to the grand universities of Boston and Cambridge was only a couple of miles, but it was an unlikely one to make. This is the story of an orphan boy who made journey from those Tough streets to MIT. It could be any boy’s story in post-war America.