Log on to the earthdaynetwork, ww2.earthday.net for links and up to date information on Earth Day events nationwide. There will be an EarthWorks tree planting in Roxbury, an urban farming event in Dorchester, a Fort Washington Park Spring Cleaning in Cambridge, an Earth Day Kick-Off 2009 at Suffolk University with the Sierra Club, a Bike, Skate, Walk Transportation Alternatives Outreach in Beacon Hill, a Boston Bike Cycling Skills Clinic, also in Beacon Hill, and dozens more events in an around our neighborhood.
Author: Boston Flora
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Monday, April 20 – 6:30 a.m.- Patriots Day Trash Pick Up & Traffic Advisory
Don’t forget to put out your trash very, very early Monday morning. Because of the street closings and projected crowds coming to the Back Bay for the Marathon finish, the City will begin picking up trash at 6:30 a.m. Berkeley Street from Columbus Avenue to Newbury Street, Boylston Street from Massachusetts Avenue to Arlington Street, Commonwealth Avenue from Beacon Street to Gloucester Street, Clarendon Street from Commonwealth Avenue to Stuart Street, Dartmouth Street from Stuart Street to Newbury Street, Exeter Street from Commonwealth Avenue to Huntington Avenue, Fairfield Street from Boylston Street to Newbury Street, Gloucester Street from Commonwealth Avenue to Boylston Street, Newbury Street from Fairfield Street to Massachusetts Avenue, and Public Alley #440 (Exeter to Dartmouth) will be among the street closed. No parking will be allowed on both sides of Berkeley Street from Columbus Avenue to Newbury Street, Boylston Street from Massachusetts Avenue to Arlington Street, Clarendon Street from Commonwealth Avenue to Stuart Street, all of Hereford Street, Dartmouth Street from Boylston to Newbury, Exeter Street from Blagden Street to Newbury Street, Fairfield Street from Boylston to Newbury, Hereford from Commonwealth to Boylston, Newbury Street from Fairfield to Massachusetts Avenue. You will be towed. For questions, call the Boston Transportation Department Hotline at 617-635-4283.
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Sunday, April 26, 2 pm – Tulipomania: Banking with Bulbs During the Golden Age of Dutch Culture
As part of the Bellefield Design Lectures at the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites, Eric Haskell will present an illustrated talk. Eric Haskell is an author and professor at Scripps College . The event is in celebration of the Quadricentennial of Henry Hudson’s journey up the Hudson. $50 ($45 for BFGA members) includes wine and hors d’oeuvres. Event will be held at The Henry A. Wallace Center, home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hyde Park, New York. Limited seating. Advance purchase of tickets strongly recommended. For more information contact Anne Symmes at infor@beatrixfarrandgarden.org, or call 845-229-9115, ext. 26. To learn more about the Beatrix Farrand Garden Association visit www.beatrixfarrandgarden.org.
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Thursday, May 21, 9-5 – The Hidden Gardens of Beacon Hill
Take a tour of the Hidden Gardens of Beacon Hill on Thursday, May 21, 9-5, rain or shine. The tour is self-guided and may be viewed at your own pace. Complimentary tea and coffee will be served at The Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer Street. To purchase tickets in advance by mail, send a check payable to Beacon Hill Garden Club before May 7, 2009 to Ticket Chairman, Beacon Hill Garden Club, Box 302, Charles Street Station, Boston, MA 02114. Include a stamped, self-addressed business sized envelope with your check. Tickets in advance are $30 each. Tour day tickets, if available, are $35. No refunds or exchanges are allowed, and there are no group discounts. If you have questions, you may call 617-227-4392. Tickets may also be purchased on line at www.beaconhillgardenclub.org.
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Wednesday, April 15, 9 a.m. – Back Bay Boston: Fusing the Historic and the Modern
Back Bay Historical/The Global Boston Perspective, Boston Architectural College, and the Back Bay Association are sponsoring a forum at Cascieri Hall in the Boston Architectural College, 320 Newbury Street (corner of Hereford and Newbury) Wednesday morning. Following opening comments by Ted Landsmark, President of BAC, Douglass Shand-Tucci will give the keynote address on “Why Trinity Church Needed the Hancock Tower – Why the Historic Needs the Modern.” This will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Jeff Stein, Head of the School of Architecture, and will include Robert Campbell, Architecture Critic for The Boston Globe, Bryan Koop, Sr., Vice President and Regional Manager of Boston Properties, John Palmieri, Director of the BRA, Tad Stahl, member of the Mayor’s Back Bay Task Force of 1970, and Mark Jarzombek, Head of History, Theory, and Criticism, MIT School of Architecture. Meg Mainser-Cohen, President of the Back Bay Association, will conclude the two hour forum. To rsvp, please call 617-266-1991, or email megmc@bostonbackbay.com.
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Tuesday, May 5, 4 pm – Friends of the Public Garden Annual Meeting
You are invited to attend the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Public Garden on Tuesday, May 5, beginning at 4 pm, at the First Church in Boston, 64 Marlborough Street. Hear reports on the Boston Common, the Public Garden, and the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. The guest speaker will be Janet Marie Smith, restoration architect for Fenway Park. For more information call 617-723-8144.
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Saturday, May 2, 5-7 pm – The Floralia, A Ceremonial Dedication of the New Tortoise Fountains
Members of the Dr. John Green Society may attend The Floralia, A Ceremonial Dedication of the New Tortoise Fountains, a gift of Chloe Nester Sundberg, at Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Saturday, May 2, from 5 to 7 pm. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvre, music at 5:30, dedication at 6. 11 French Drive, Boylston, Massachusetts. For information on joining the Dr. John Green Society, contact Wendy Cehon, 508-869-6111, ext. 136. Please respond for this event no later than April 28, although members of the Dr. John Green Society are invited to many splendid events during the course of each year, so membership is always recommended.
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Thursday, April 16, 7:30 pm – The Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentive Program: Protecting America’s Architectural Treasures Through Voluntary Preservation
You are invited to a free one-hour informational seminar about protecting historic buildings. Preserving an historic structure could benefit the Back Bay and may result in a tax deduction. Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston. Register today by calling Mory Bahar, a representative of the Trust for Architectural Easements, at 978-352-5615, or by sending an email to mbahar@architecturaltrust.org. For more information, log on to www.architecturaltrust.org.
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Saturday, April 25 – Sunday, April 26 – Fruitlands Opening Weekend
Fruitlands Museum, home to the eclectic collection of Native American, Shaker, and American art, celebrates its 95th season with the much-anticipated opening of The Nature of Apples: Art & Memory. This new exhibition of thematic paintings drawn from a private collection, features the enduring beauty of this American icon and its role in the farming economy of Central Massachusetts’ Nashoba Valley. Continuing through November 2009, the exhibit shows artists ranging from Currier & Ives to renowned Provincetown contemporary painter Karl Knaths. A fascinating enhancement to the exhibit, Farmers Voices is a collection of compelling recorded oral histories by local farmers and orchard growers, collected and produced by exhibit cosponsor Freedom’s Way Heritage Association.
Continuing at Fruitlands is sculptor Joseph Wheelright’s astonishing Tree Figures installation, featuring eight monumental, lifelike figures, created from actual trees. With their own distinct personalities the figures are carefully sited throughout the property and greet the visitor in grand style. Wheelwright has exhibited at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA and the Boston Sculptors Gallery. Also on view is Branching Out, a thirty-year retrospective of Wheelwright’s smaller sculptures in the Ell Gallery at Fruitlands Farmhouse. 102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard, Massachusetts. For more information, log on to www.fruitlands.org.
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Former Garden Club Member Marguerite Feind
Garden Club of the Back Bay member Marguerite Feind died March 27 at her daughter’s home in Long Valley, New Jersey, at the age of 86. Marguerite moved to Boston in 2004 and subsequently joined the Garden Club and The College Club. To view Marguerite’s obituary, log on to www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=125607158.