Public Library, Boston

Jersey Joe Walcott clowns with young fan in Boston

Four Freedoms plaque, North End

Modern Pioneers Launch Log Cabin Community. Spurred on by economic conditions, eight hardy families; reverting to the pioneer instincts of their fore fathers; have begun a log-cabin cooperative community on the edge of a wilderness that flanks the Daniel Webster Highway in this section. Among the contributing factors which led the twentieth century pioneers to strike out for themselves were high rents; cramped play room for children and lack of farming space. The cabins, built by the settlers themselves at a cost of less than $400; are constructed of pine; with clear maple and white birch flooring. All the timber supply is taken from the surrounding woods. The original cost of the land; about $60 an acre, and materials not available from natural sources constitute the outlay for what members of the community describe as "comfortable homes." Photo Shows: The first settler of the log-cabin colony, Edwin Johnson, a bachelor, doing some of the chores in the kitchen of his home. An ex-navy man. Johnson gets pension, which, he say, will keep him in fine style the rest of his life. His entire cabin and land cost him $71 and now feels that his rent problems are over. Next year he will start cultivating his land.

Old ships moored at Meridian St. drawbridge, East Boston, looking toward Chelsea