DORCHESTER -- Dorchester is not monolithic. Just ask historian and resident J. Charles Swift. ``The thing about Dorchester, and what I always tell people, is that Dorchester is such a large neighborhood that it's easy to lump everything together as Dorchester," he said. ``But there are so many little, small neighborhoods in Dorchester. There are so many people of all ... (Full article: 263 words)

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