Daily Archives: November 9, 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Friends of the Boston Park Rangers Benefit

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Please join The Honorable Thomas M. Menino and the Friends of the Boston Park Rangers Mounted Unit for Cocktails in Support of the Boston Park Rangers Mounted Unit on Tuesday, November 30, from 5:30 – 7:30 pm at Parkman House, 33 Beacon Street in Boston.  Hear remarks by Henry Lee, President of the Friends of the Public Garden, and by Julie Crockford, President of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy.  Please respond by November 16 to Ashley Helie at 617-522-2700, or email her at ahelie@emeraldnecklace.org.  Tickets are $500 each.  If you cannot attend, donations in any amount will be gratefully accepted.  Checks may be made payable to the Justine Mee Liff Fund for Friends of the Boston Park Rangers Mounted Unit, and mailed to the Friends c/o The Emerald Necklace Conservancy, PO Box 300699, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130.

Your contributions will benefit Mystic, Jake, Liberty, Winston, Baron, and Fred.  Fred has been an honored guest as past Garden Club of the Back Bay benefit events, although his presence was limited to an “outside role.”

Saturday, November 20, 10 am – 3 pm – Wrapping Stones Japanese Style

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Participate in a hands on workshop at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts on Saturday, November 20 from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm. It is mysterious, but basket makers and gardeners alike love and collect beautiful stones! We keep them in our studios, gardens and touch them often. Now you can learn to “wrap stones” and further that connection between stones and people. Using raffia, waxed line and cane, each participant will weave an open pattern over each stone. Start collecting! Put them on your windowsills, line your garden paths or give them as gifts. Nancy Moore Bess is a master basket maker and exhibits her baskets worldwide. She has championed Japanese basketry in the west and is the author of Bamboo in Japan. Her popular workshops always sell out. Bring a bagged lunch. BBG members $75, non-members $85, plus a $15 materials fee paid directly to the instructor.  For more information, log on to www.berkshirebotanical.org.

Saturday, November 13 and Sunday, November 14, 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm – Sculpting Boston

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Nancy  Schön and Lloyd Lillie invite you a reception to Sculpting Boston, a retrospective look at two of the area’s preeminent public sculptors, on Saturday and Sunday, November 13 and 14, from 12 – 5 at The Gallery at New England Sculpture Service, Boston’s full-service foundry, 214 Arlington Street in Chelsea.  This event is a chance to see the exhibition, meet the artists, have a tour of the foundry, and see the lost-wax process and how these sculptures are made.  For more information and directions log on to www.nesculpture.com, or contact Marjee Levine at 617-884-9292.

BackBayPatch Launches Back Bay Coverage

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Editor Cate Lecuyer introduces us to BackBayPatch, an on line newspaper with 24/7 coverage of the neighborhood.  The on line format is extremely interactive, allowing the reader to comment on articles and to pass along items of interest.  An interesting report on how the Boston Fire Department’s new ladder truck can’t fit through the historic stone arches in the Boylston Street Station is included today, along with a report on Wi-Fi trash compactors on Newbury Street, the Liberty Mutual Tower, restaurant reviews, event calendars – our readers living in Back Bay will appreciate the resources.  Congratulations, Cate, and best of luck!