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Boston Scenes

Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week

City Councilor Charles C. Yancey (left) and City Councilor-at-Large John R. Connolly (right) co-hosted the first annual Boston Caribbean Carnival Breakfast at City Hall on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, to kick off the carnival weekend. They were joined by Henry Antoine (second from left), president of the North American Carnival Association, and Shirley Shillingford, president of the Caribbean American Carnival Association of Boston. (Photo courtesy of the Office of City Councilor-at-Large John R. Connolly)

Members of the Kennedy family and other gathered mourners look on as a military honor guard carries the flag-draped casket of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., into the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Dorchester on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. The late senator’s body laid in repose at the library for public viewing. (Don West/Fotografiks photo)

Ambassador Andrew Young (seated) is flanked by Road Scholar CEO James Moses (left) and Dr. Donald Stewart, former president of Spelman College in Atlanta and a member of Road Scholar’s board of directors, during the recent “Taste of Road Scholar” event at Shearer Cottage in Oak Bluffs, Mass. Young delivered the keynote address to an audience of more than 300 people at the event. (Photo courtesy of Road Scholar)

 

Cori Evans, 8, of Roxbury (left) celebrates catching her first fish on a recent outing at Jamaica Pond with her grandmother, Rosa Higginbottom. In addition to a native population of sunfish and bass, Jamaica Pond is stocked annually with trout and salmon by the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game in cooperation with the Boston Parks and Recreation Department. (Jon Seamans photo)