STATUE E.BROADWAY

 

When I was a young boy there was a section of Southie that was tagged as “ Pill Hill “ It was so called because nearly every Doctor in Southie was located there. The area was at the crest of East Broadway. My remembrance is not because of the Doctors but of a statue of a young boy situated between a narrow gap in

the buildings. He stood there facing the street.

When I asked I was told he was frozen in time by God because he threw a rock at his mother. Now as an adult I know that to be ridiculous. But at the time I believed the story. The reason being that he was so lifelike. The sculptor captured his image in such detail that he truly could have been alive at the instance of his indiscretion.

Obviously it made a great impression on me such that I still think of that statue some 80 years later. In any event when ever I got angry at my mother for making me behave I never ever thought of hurling a missile in her direction.