Anna White

It's that time of year! It's getting dark out earlier, leaves are falling, and scary movies are popping up on Netflix... Halloween is here! One of the eeriest places in [...]

The Dorchester Day Parade is on June 2nd!   So, what exactly is the parade celebrating? What exactly is Dorchester Day (aka Dot Day)? Let’s find out together in this Caught [...]

Today we are going to learn about our newest Federal Holiday: Juneteenth! In case you are asking yourself, but isn’t Juneteenth already a holiday in Massachusetts, you are correct! It [...]

The third Monday in April is a special day in Massachusetts. It's Marathon Monday and it's Patriots’ Day. What exactly is Patriots’ Day? Well, I’m glad you asked because that is [...]

Here at Caught In Dot, we discovered that the popular Dorchester tavern Lucy’s American Tavern was named in honor of famed suffragette Lucy Stone. Who was Lucy Stone, and what [...]

If you’ve spent any time on the MBTA’s Red Line (Savin Hill Station was first opened in 1845 as a commuter rail station!) or if you live in Boston, you’ve [...]

The Christmas season — what could be more quintessentially New England? Sleds, caroling, hot cocoa, snow, snuggling in front of warm fires, right? But in Massachusetts, Christmas was banned for [...]

Happy June, Southie! I hope you are taking advantage of this beautiful spring and all that our neighborhood has to offer: Beaches! Restaurants! Parks! Museums! We are so lucky to [...]

If you love chocolate you might be interested to know there was a time it would have been produced right here in the Lower Mills neighborhood of Dorchester! And that [...]

We made it! The Boston Preliminary* Election is over! We now know who the candidates will be on November 2nd’s ballot! Our top two vote getters for mayor are City [...]