Mothers of Maverick Street demonstration begins.

Some 25 East Boston women, led by Anna DeFronzo, stage a sit-in on Maverick Street to keep dump trucks bound for Logan Airport from using local streets. After a week of demonstrations by as many as 150 people, the Massachusetts Port Authority agrees to re-route the truck traffic and subsequently builds a special truck route on airport property. A park along a 33-acre buffer zone built between the airport and the neighborhood is dedicated to the women on October 30, 2015, prompting one of them, Karen Maddalena, to say, “It’s a good thing. You always learn from history.”