Norumbega Park certainly deserves its place that history. It was one of many “trolley parks” that opened around the country in the late 19th century by streetcar companies to encourage ridership.

Norumbega Park was created in 1890, as part of an initiative to get citizens to use the newly built T. “They wanted to give people a reason to use [the Green line],” said Carter.

In New England, the name Norumbega still features on streets and buildings. But did this shining indigenous community ever exist?

In his new novel, “Norumbega Park,’’ Anthony Giardina traces the 40-year history of a family who believed that such things could insulate them from the vicissitudes of life, and must wrestle ...

Falling In Love With 'Norumbega Park' Richie Palumbo, a middle-class Massachusetts father, follows the mysterious promptings of his heart and moves his family into his dream house in 1969.

Norumbega Park Anthony Giardina. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-27867-0. One night in 1969, while driving with his family, Richie Palumbo accidentally discovers the ...

“There is a hallway that is life. Doors open, and you must enter. You have no choice.” If you had to select one image to serve as the ruling motif of Norumbega Park — and pity you if you do ...

NORUMBEGA PARK. By Anthony Giardina. Farrar Straus Giroux. 325 pp. $27. Comments. A note to our readers. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate ...

Newton has Norumbega Park, and Cambridge carries Norumbega Street. Though there is no physical evidence whatsoever of Norumbega's existence, New England just rolled with it and celebrated an ...