A holiday pitch to you: Bill’s team here and we humbly (maybe not so humbly) suggest that you consider giving a copy of Bill’s book, “Boston: Game Changers,” as a gift this holiday season. Click here for more information and to order your copies now. You can order the book and others, including “Boston: Irish,” through College Hype’s special Bill Brett Boston shop here. While you are there, check out the many great items.

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Editor’s Note: The following was written by Paul Doyle, a friend of Bill Brett’s and this page, who lives in Weymouth and currently recuperating from back surgery. We offer these words to mark Veterans Day, November 11, which was started as “Armistice Day,” in 1919, the first anniversary of World War I. In 1926, the US Congress passed a resolution for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. By…

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By Marion A. McBride Early on October 26, as the morning light lifted over the iconic Union Oyster House sign, film crews scurried on Union and Marshall streets preparing to film scenes for the pilot of the Lionsgate/HBO Max TV production of “Julia,” about culinary icon Julia Child. Child, who died in 2004, lived in Cambridge for many years and filmed her now classic TV show the “French Chef” for WGBH-TV, when the PBS station…

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