Revere Beach Stories at the Revere History Museum…JOIN US!
This exhibit is open through the weekend. Friday 4-7. Saturday and Sunday 10-2.
Come check it out.
Revere Beach Stories: Photographs and Poems by Stephenie Young, Jennifer Martelli, and Kevin Carey.
In the shadow of the Boston skyline, Revere Beach, Massachusetts, is a life in pictures: the natural blue ocean horizon, the restaurants and the bars, the cars cruising up and down, the teenagers in packs on hot summer days, the retired folks walking the boardwalk. This urban beachfront also houses many poetic stories: a honky-tonk history, a revolving door of immigrants, gangsters and gamblers, and an often-crowded boulevard teaming with beachgoers from surrounding cities.
Poets Kevin Carey and Jennifer Martelli grew up in Revere in the 1960s. They’ve both written extensively about this city and its three-mile beachfront, which is the first public beach in America. Stephenie Young, a Somerville photographer, is originally from California. During the Covid epidemic, Young was drawn to this local East Coast ocean and its unfamiliar culture. Thus began a long-term photo project about everyday life in the beach city. “I wanted to use my camera to show my own vision of Revere Beach—the diversity of people, the beauty of the ever-changing color of the sky and the water.” After a chance conversation over those photographs and a few poems, a collaboration was born. “We met at a bakery on Broadway and kicked around ideas about how the photos and the poems could interact with each other as stories,” Carey remembers.
