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tion defeated the British frigate

Guerriere off Nova Scotia dur-

ing the War of 1812, earning

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ºIn 1848, the New York

Herald reported the discovery

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ºIn 1909, the first auto rac-

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the 2.5-mile track at an average

speed of 57.4 miles per hour.

ºIn 1934, a German plebi-

scite approved vesting sole ex-

ecutive power in Adolf Hitler.

ºIn 1980, 301 people

aboard a Saudi Arabian L-

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emergency return to the Riyadh

airport.

ºIn 1990, Leonard Bern-

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out to be the last concert of his

career at Tanglewood in Lenox

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No. 7.

ºIn 2003, a suicide truck

bomb struck UN headquarters

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ºIn 2004, Google began

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eign ministries, killing more

than 100 people.

ºIn 2014, a video released

by Islamic State militants pur-

ported to show the beheading

of American journalist James

Foley, who grew up in New

Hampshire, as retribution for

US airstrikes in Iraq.

ºLast year, former CIA di-

rector John Brennan, whose se-

curity clearance had been re-

voked by President Trump, said

he was considering taking legal

action to prevent Trump from

removing clearances from other

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and videotapes.
She was also among the
merchants who helped turn All-
ston, where Disk’overy operat-
ed for a quarter century, and
Brighton, where it relocated for
several more years, into neigh-
borhoods where many new res-
idents now choose to stay, rath-
er than leave when they can
spring for a tonier address.
“I love music and books,” she
told the Globe in 2012 as she
prepared to shutter the final
Brighton location of Disk’overy,
whose fortunes were buffeted
by changing shopping habits
and online availability of the
merchandise she sold.
“It’s a nice place,” she said of
her store. “I’m happy.”
No price could be placed on
the joy Ms. Stratter offered to
customers free of charge.
“She was such a warm and
friendly and outgoing person,”
said Thalia Zedek, a musician
who, like O’Connell, walked in-
to Disk’overy as a customer and
walked out as a friend. “It was a
great store, but it was her who
made it so great. She made a re-
ally big impression on everyone
who met her.”
The store was just as unfor-
gettable, and subject to the oc-
casional avalanche of tottering
books.
“It was organized chaos, but
she really knew where every-
thing was,” said Leah Kin-
thaert, a longtime close friend
and customer. “People who
know her and respected her re-
alize how much work she had
to have done to buy all those
books and organize them. That
was part of the charm of the
store. You would go in looking
for one thing and come out
with something else, too.”
Now and then, Ms. Stratter’s
father or a sibling spelled her,
but for nearly every day of the
store’s 30-plus years, she was
behind the counter, assisted by
a series of sleepy cats — includ-
ing her final one, Mono Loco.
What she sold wasn’t so
much eclectic as exclusive. “She

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did not carry junk,” O’Connell

said, adding that if someone

dropped off books that didn’t

meet Ms. Stratter’s standards,

“she’d leave them on her stoop

for people to have for free.”

Bestsellers rarely found a

home in the display window. “I

can’t do it,” Ms. Stratter told the

Globe in 2006. “Against my reli-

gion.”

Instead, customers might

spot 19th-century novelist Jane

Austen sharing window space

with 1970s counterculture dar-

ling Tom Robbins.

Such selections “show a con-

scious design,” Rob Price wrote

in one of the pieces collected in

an online page that paid tribute

to Ms. Stratter and her store

when it was still open. “What

she puts out there makes you

think she might be some sort of

guru.”

She carefully picked each of-

fering and seemed to have ab-

sorbed so much of her stock

that she could dispense advice

to every shopper and words of

praise for anything anyone

chose.

“She was always recom-

mending something,” Zedek re-

called. “Every book or record I

bought from her she seemed to

have listened to or read. The

store was curated by her.”

Ms. Stratter “knew all about

everything,” O’Connell said.

“She was constantly reading.

And she always had all kinds of

music blasting. People appreci-

ated the music — they would

learn about music from her.

They’d say, ‘What’s this?’ And it

would be Miles Davis.”

Disk’overy became a place to

nurture new tastes in writers

and musicians — not to men-

tion new friends, who some-

times met for the first time in

the store’s aisles.

“She seemed to cultivate al-

most a salon atmosphere,” Kin-

thaert said.

“It was like a café. You could

go and hang out there for

hours. I could sit on a milk

crate and read for a good three

hours with my coffee,” Kin-

thaert added. “She wasn’t just

trying to sell you a book. She

was really invested in young

people and was interested in

your education — and in learn-

ing from people as well.”

Ms. Stratter would accompa-

ny much younger friends to

nightclubs, concerts, art open-

ings, and lectures.

“We went out to see bands

all the time,” O’Connell said.

“She danced and danced. She

wouldn’t get off the floor. She

had total energy.”

Indeed, her energy was so

endless that along with being

stunned to hear that cancer

would quickly end Ms. Strat-

ter’s life, friends were surprised

to learn she was much older

than they thought.

“I never knew her age until

recently when she said, ‘I’m al-

most 80,’ ” O’Connell recalled,

“and I said, ‘What?’ ”

The oldest of 10 siblings, Yo-

landa Stratter was born in 1941

in Lima, Peru, a daughter of Au-

gusto Puemape and Irene Strat-

ter. She and many of her sisters

and brothers use one or both of

their parents’ last names.

The family ran a store and

restaurant in Lima. Ms. Stratter

left behind her formal educa-

tion before finishing high

school to work and help sup-

port the family.

A connoisseur of culture,

she helped out at the cinema

next door to the family busi-

ness, where she watched mov-

ies and became enamored of

America.

“We were having a hard

time. We needed to get out,”

said her sister Soledad Stratter,

who lives in Allston in a house

she and Yolanda shared with

many relatives. “She wanted to

come here because she was so

fascinated with life in the Unit-

ed States. She decided she was

smart enough to get out of the

country and help us.”

Ms. Stratter emigrated in

her early 20s, working in vari-

ous jobs before launching

Disk’overy, and she encouraged

the rest of her family to follow

her.

A service has been held for

Ms. Stratter, who in addition to

Soledad leaves five brothers,

Virgilio of Peru, Cesar of All-

ston, Julio of Miami, Roberto of

Revere, and Dino of Brighton;

and three other sisters, Rita

and Irene of Allston, and Dora

of Brighton.

To satisfy her wide-ranging

cultural appetite, Ms. Stratter

went to performances of all

sorts. She might dance the

night away at a club one eve-

ning, then spot a Harvard Uni-

versity listing and say, “Oh, Su-

san Sontag’s speaking, we’ve

got to go,” Kinthaert recalled.

“She would not miss any-

thing,” Soledad said.

Because Ms. Stratter gave

discounts to artists, musicians,

and writers who frequented her

store, she was welcomed wher-

ever she went.

A Facebook tribute by

Zedek drewnumerouscom-

ments, including from those

who left Boston long ago — for-

mer customers who had once

basked in Ms. Stratter’s affec-

tion.

“She introduced me to a lot

of nightclubs,” Kinthaert said.

“When she showed up at a rock

show, people would say, ‘Oh my

God, the Disk’overy lady’s at my

show,’ and they’d feel really spe-

cial.”

Bryan Marquard can be

reached at

[email protected].

Yolanda Stratter; her shop became neighborhood glue

‘Shewasalwaysrecommending

something.EverybookorrecordI

boughtfromhersheseemedtohave

listenedtoorread.Thestorewas

curatedbyher.’

THALIA ZEDEK, local musician, Disk’overy patron

Ms. Stratter emigrated from

Lima, Peru. She finally

closed her store, Disk’overy,

in 2012.

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