I have lived in the South End of Boston since 2003, with one year off (2008-2009, moved to East Boston). I have lived in the same apartment since 2009. Like every urban neighborhood, everyone has nostalgia for a past, some of it real and some of it imagined. South End has a deep history, going back to its formation in the mid-19th century, when the city filled in the South Bay to create it. (While this history may seem far back, it arises more often than you might think, as when there is a drought and locals worry about the wood pilings under their buildings drying up and getting damaged.) It has hosted a number of demographic groups, based around ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and more. There was overlap, which gets confusing to some folks. I am quite certain there were complicated politics. I could provide a history here but I will only give the biggest overview, to get us to the period that interests me so much (the 1970s and the neighborhood's political publishing scen...