Daily Archives: June 8, 2009


Tuesday, June 16, 6-9 (Raindate Thursday, June 18)- Summer Solstice Celebration

Explore a Boston treasure! On the longest day of the year, The Forest Hills Educational Trust invites you to join Trustees and Friends of the Forest Hills Educational Trust for a festive evening of twilight tours, trolley rides, al fresco refreshments and vintage cocktails. See masterpieces of sculpture by Daniel Chester French, visit Revolutionary War hero Joseph Warren and poet e.e. Cummings, and view some of the Trust’s innovative contemporary art. Tours will be led by our expert guides Elise Ciregna, Al Maze, Dee Morris, and Trustee Anthony Sammarco; artists Fern Cunningham and Mitch Ryerson will participate in a walk to see their work at Forest Hills.

Special thanks to Samuel Adams Brewery in Jamaica Plain for donating beer to support the event, and to the expert mixologists of LUPEC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails) for creating vintage cocktails.

Tickets are $35 and must be purchased in advance. Call 617.524.3354; leave a message with your daytime phone and a representative will call you back for credit card information. Or send an email stating how many tickets and your daytime phone number to: tickets@foresthillstrust.org. Do not email your credit card information.


Saturday, June 20, 10 – 2 – We’re Flowering in West Roxbury

The Evening Garden Club of West Roxbury presents “We’re Flowering in West Roxbury”, a self-guided garden tour of five different gardens in West Roxbury, on Saturday, June 20, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m, rain or shine.  Tickets are $15 each in advance and $18 day of tour.  Contact Katherine Lino at 617-327-4019  or 617-469-3368 to reserve your tickets and for information and directions.  Proceeds benefit the Club’s civic beautification projects, including the West Roxbury Branch Library and Reading Garden, the Beethoven Elementary School, the Massachusetts Visibility Site, and Millennium Park, plus annual bulb plantings throughout West Roxbury.  Log on to www.westroxburyevegc.com for more details.  Tickets are available at Auntie B’s, 1881 Centre Street, Halls of Tara Florist, 2051 Centre Street, Stephanie’s Flowers, 1004 West Roxbury Parkway, and Village Books, 751 South Street.