“Whatever you needed for daily life, there were stores on Blue Hill Avenue”

“Some of the more affluent people from Dorchester would move to Brookline or Newton. Those who were less affluent would move to—let’s say you were in Chelsea, so you would move to Peabody.”

“Dorchester was the next level up. Because my father was able to buy a three-family house in Dorchester, so we were landlords.”