Daily Archives: April 6, 2016

Sunday, April 17, 1:00 pm – Organizing Nature Through Its Evolutionary History

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Jennifer Berlinger, creator of History of Existing Life artwork, will share how evolutionary history is changing traditional plant classifications, and how this will improve medicine, agriculture and conservation.  The presentation will take place at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston, on Sunday, April 17 at 1 pm.  Free with admission to the garden, but pre-registration is required, at www.towerhillbg.org.

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Sunday, April 10, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – The Arnold Arboretum Before It Was An Arboretum

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Join Arnold Arboretum docent Brian Karlsson-Barnes at 1 pm on Sunday, April 10 in the Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, and step back in time to the early 19th century. Imagine the Arboretum before it was an Arboretum. Most of the land was treeless, cleared to grow crops and hay, graze animals, and supply firewood for Boston and nearby Third Parish of Roxbury, now Jamaica Plain. Hear how gentleman farmer, Benjamin Bussey, consolidated a number of small farms into a large estate, and how he safe-guarded and valued this land that would become the Arnold Arboretum. Free.

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