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What makes America great? Conversations in Union Square, Portrait 9: Shawn

Shawn: early 20s, an epidemiology researcher at The Broad Institute, a lab that is a collaboration between Harvard and MIT. Part of a wave…

4 min readMay 25, 2017

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What makes America Great? Conversations in Union Square, Portrait 8, Tony and Jerry

Tony and Jerry: father and son team at P.A.’s Lounge, a bare bones bar at the heart of Union Square, which Tony opened 45 years ago, when…

7 min readMay 18, 2017

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What makes America great? Conversations in Union Square, Portrait 7: Maria

Owner’s daughter (we’ll call her Maria, as she wanted to remain anonymous): an Italian deli that has been in Union Square for over 30…

3 min readMay 12, 2017

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What makes America great? Conversations in Union Square, Portrait 6: Dave

Dave: the owner of Grooves, a secondhand record store in Union Square which is riding the wave of the vinyl revival. The long plate glass…

4 min readMay 5, 2017

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What makes America great? Conversations in Union Square, Portrait 5: Jeetendra

Jeetendra: owner of New Bombay, a tiny Nepalese market on the west side of Union Square. The market is nestled behind a chain link fence in…

5 min readApr 27, 2017

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What makes America great? Conversations in Union Square, Portrait 4

Alberto: the Puerto Rican owner of Casa B, an elegant but warmly welcoming tapas restaurant just off Union Square’s main plaza. He and his…

4 min readApr 20, 2017

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What makes America great? Conversations in Union Square, Portrait 3: Julie Ann

Julie Ann: late 30s, an artist who I discovered through a display of her poems at a Union Square cafe. Julie Ann, who moved to Somerville…

9 min readApr 13, 2017

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What makes America great? Conversations in Union Square, Portrait 2: Andrew

Andrew: late 30s, shaved head and a goatee, is a London-born Ghanaian — tall, powerful looking, broadshouldered, with an exuberant, gap…

5 min readApr 4, 2017

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What makes America great? Conversations in Union Square, Portrait 1: Sam

Union Square, Somerville, MA, across the river from Boston, is known for being home to the first American flag — flown by General…

6 min readApr 4, 2017

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JT Thompson

JT Thompson

My What makes America great? Union Square portraits let people say what they love about living in this country. Union Square is home to America’s first flag.

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