By Fabiana Echeverria Lori Arnault, 59, has worked as a registered nurse at Boston Children’s Hospital for the past 35 years. She loves Mission Hill. “I don’t think I would’ve stayed here...

By Rou Zhang Kevin Piana, 21, walked through Kevin W. Fitzgerald Park in Mission Hill. It was a Saturday afternoon, and he was heading home after spending the night at a friend’s house. Piana...

By Patrick Strohecker When it’s nice outside, Jeff Ransom likes to sit on his front porch in Mission Hill and watch as people stroll past. Ransom has enjoyed this relaxed ritual for 18 years, since...

Julia Harrington John Jackson is a self-described “city guy.” He loves that feeling when everything and everyone is constantly moving. Jackson moved to Mission Hill from Alabama in the 1970s with...

By Liam Leonard-Solis Jason Bennett loves baseball and punk rock. Bennet, a 45-year-old architect who has lived in Mission Hill for 28 years, has used music and sports to preserve community. For...

By Brandi Griffin Standing outside of Lilly’s Gourmet Pasta Express on her break, Ilda Pires, 39, said that Mission Hill has changed a lot. She’s spent time in the neighborhood since 1993, when...

By Ning Wang Dalia Morales, 19, walked out from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, where she attends Sunday church services with her mother. Morales moved to Mission Hill when she was 5 years old....

By Tahisha Charles Cassius Cohen, 21, takes pride in his role as a career development and youth specialist at the Boston Centers for Youth and Families (BCYF). He started the job a little over...

By Ndamati Timothy Mary Burns, 69, said that has always looked out for others. That’s part of the reason she worked as a registered nurse. Burns has spent the past 44 years living and working in...

By Ha Ta Efrain Toledano has been the principal of Mission Hill’s Maurice J. Tobin K-8 School for six years. The most rewarding part of working here, Toledano said, is families’ engagement with...

By Evelyn Bleed Kalen Ratzlaff, 58, said his favorite memory living in Mission Hill was realizing - while walking his dog on their normal route - that his daily view of the Boston cityscape was captured...

By D. Alexandra Naulanini-Figueroa. (Translated from Spanish to English by Lourdes Rodriguez, a fellow member of the church Roca de Consolation.) An unusually cold September afternoon did not deter...