Daily Archives: February 10, 2012

Wednesday, February 29, 3:00 pm – Garden Club of the Back Bay Annual Member Tea

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This year’s Garden Club of the Back Bay Annual Member Tea will take place under the dome at The Lenox Hotel, 61 Exeter Street in Boston, on Wednesday, February 29, from 3 – 5.  The menu will include smoked salmon finger sandwiches with shaved cucumber and dilled cheese on dark rye, shaved prosciutto di Parma with roasted red pepper aioli and smoked mozzarella on a baguette, a garden vegetable sandwich with alfalfa sprouts, bibb lettuce, cherry tomato, balsamic mayonnaise, and roasted portabello mushroom, and sliced rosemary chicken breast with watercress and  red grapes in a curry vinaigrette.  Assorted scones (blueberry, lemon, plain and pumpkin) and a rich cheese assortment (manchego, gruyere, brie, chedder, chevre and pecorino) will be followed by a variety of freshly baked cookies.  Members will receive written notice of the event.  Guests are welcome.  The price per person is $40 for our members, $50 for guests.  If you are not a member but are interested in attending, please email info@gardenclubbackbay.org. The photo below was taken at a wedding in the Dome Room by Lisa Rigby Photography.

Thursday, March 8, 6:00 pm – A Great Green Cloud: The Rise and Fall of the City Elms

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Decades before Olmsted parks, Yankee villagers planted elm trees on their streets and commons to forge a union of rus and urbe, i.e. the rustic and the urban. The trees brought about “a kind of compromise between town and country,” observed Charles Dickens, as if each had met the other halfway and shaken hands upon it. The result was that lost masterpiece of American urbanism, “Elm Street.” Thomas J. Campanella, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the University of North Carolina, will explore elm culture in the U.S., and how our love affair with this giant nearly brought it to the edge of disappearance, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s New Directions in EcoPlanning Annual Lecture on Thursday, March 8, beginning at 6 pm . Reception to follow, free and open to the public.  Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street. Free parking available in the 52 Oxford Street garage. Supported by a gift from Michael Dyett (AB ’68, MRP ’72) and Heidi Richardson.