Chinatown Lantern

Have you met our volunteers? Each week our volunteers come and spend time in the reading room to help others learn English, how to use computers, or read books for our children's storytelling time. Come by to the reading room library when you are in Chinatown.

Happy Holidays and New Year from Chinatown Lantern!

This image of the Chinatown Heritage Mural by artists Wen-ti Tsen and Zuo Yuan is based on a Qing Dynasty painting, "Travellers in an Autumn Landscape". In the painting, travellers are making their way home before the arrival of winter. As winter arrives and the New Year is around the corner, we reflect on where we have been and what paths may lie ahead. It is the time of the year when families seek to gather; it is also a time to recognize the contributions of those who came before us. In honor of the early sojourners who came from faraway shores and built our communities, there is a proverb engraved in the Mount Hope Memorial, "Long rivers flow from distant origins.”

Today, Boston’s Chinatown is home to a diverse residential population, and serves as the cultural and social service center for the region's Asian American population. For the upcoming year, Chinatown Lantern hopes to continue our work to provide a safe and open space for all, and through the Reading Room, deliver library services and cultural and educational programming.

Chinatown Lantern wishes everyone a safe and joyful holiday season. Happy Holidays!