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Category: Author Book Signing

  • Sunday, February 2, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Tarts, Three Ways

    On Sunday, February 2, from 1 – 4, Jackie King, co-owner of A&J King Artisan Bakers in Salem, will show you the basics of tart production and assembly using three distinct methods. Based on the recipes and techniques outlined in her new book, Baking by Hand, participants will create three tarts from start to finish—to bring home or eat right away! This class is perfect for the aspiring pastry chef, sweet lover, or home cook. Join us for this inspiring workshop, then stop by the Appleton Farms Dairy Store to pick up your own copy of Baking by Hand.

    This event is part of the Appleton Cooks! program at Appleton Farms in Ipswich. Cost – Trustees of Reservations members $75, nonmembers $85. To register, and for directions, visit http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/northeast-ma/ac-tarts-3-ways.html, or call 978-356-5728, x 12.

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  • Sunday, January 26, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Boston’s Orange Line

    The story of the Orange Line is the story of Boston: always in flux but trailed by its long history. Since 1901, this rail line’s configuration has evolved in response to changes in the city, society, and technology. Hazardous sections have been eliminated, ownership has transitioned from private to public, and the line has been rerouted to serve growing suburbs and to use land cleared for the failed Inner Belt. Both its northern terminus, which shifted from Everett to Malden, and the southern route, realigned from Washington Street to the Southwest Corridor, have seen dramatic transformations that have in turn changed riders’ lives. Today, the line’s 10 miles of track curve through many Greater Boston communities, serving thousands along the way.

    The Jamaica Plain Historical Society will host an authors book talk on Sunday, January 26, from 3 – 5 at Doyle’s, 3484 Washington Street, Jamaica Plain. The authors Jeremy C. Fox and Andrew Elder are JP residents and will have copies of the book for sale. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served (but cash bar).

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  • Thursday, January 30, 7:00 pm – Trowels and Tomorrow

    The beauty of gardens is that they mature. Join Tovah Martin at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, on Thursday, January 30 beginning at 7 pm in this lecture about horticultural preservation, stewardship, and how gardeners grapple with change. We address the challenges of bringing landscapes into the next generation.

    Whether you have inherited a landscape or created a garden over decades and now face mature trees and shrubs that require preemptive pruning or relocation, we explore issues and answers. We look at woodland gardens and grand estates, we explore gardens great and small. We tackle such sticky wickets as rehabilitating overgrown boxwood hedges and coping with plants that were once considered exotics but have now been unmasked as invasives.

    This is a lecture about bringing yesterday’s gardens into tomorrow. But we also talk about plant preservation and heirloom varieties, honoring the people who have worked to preserve vintage ornamentals so those plants with a past can become the superstars of future gardens.

    Ms. Martin will have copies of her most recent books available for purchase and signing.  Fee is $20 for Massachusetts Horticultural Society members, $25 for nonmembers.  For more information visit www.masshort.org or call 617-933-4973.  Image below from www.flowermag.com.

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  • Saturday, January 11, 2:00 pm – Navigating Our Milky Way Galaxy

    Earth may be a pint-sized planet and the Sun just an average star, but the Milky Way galaxy is a major player within the cosmos. Astronomer William Waller, author of the new The Milky Way, An Insider’s Guide, will lead a journey through our home galaxy, as viewed both from dark-sky sanctuaries here on Earth and from space satellites that explore the outer limits of the solar system. The author talk and book signing will take place Saturday, January 11, beginning at 2 pm at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge. Regular museum admission rates apply.

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  • Thursday, January 23, 5:30 pm – Landscaping Ideas That Work

    Thursday, January 23, 5:30 pm – Landscaping Ideas That Work

    Join The Massachusetts Horticultural Society and New England Landscape Design and History Association on a wintry day, Thursday, January 23 at Elm Bank, to talk about warm plans for your garden. Julie Moir Messervy, an entertaining and inspiring lecturer, will discuss the concepts and ideas behind her new book Landscaping Ideas That Work which will be released on January 7, 2014. A wine and cheese reception at 5:30 pm will precede the lecture, which begins at 6:30 pm. Books will be available for purchase and signing before and after the lecture.

    In her presentation, Julie will share how her Landscaping Ideas that Work can provide homeowners with design strategies for combining elements and creating spaces that work for them and their home; tips for working effectively with landscaping professionals; innovative ideas for transforming all aspects of their yard into inviting outdoor spaces; and strategies for designing more sustainable landscapes and gardens.

    Messervy is the designer of the award-winning Toronto Music Garden and numerous public and private landscapes. She is a distinguished lecturer and the author of seven books on landscape design, including Landscaping Ideas That Work; Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love; and Outside the Not So Big House with Sarah Susanka. She is “The New Homestead” columnist for Organic Gardening magazine and was the popular columnist of “Inspired Design” for Fine Gardening magazine.

    Messervy is also the principal of JMMDS in Saxtons River, Vermont, a landscape architecture and design firm serving individuals and organizations. With their Home Outside online design service and Home Outside Palette app for iPhone and iPad, Messervy and JMMDS are pioneering new ways to bring good landscape design to homeowners everywhere.

    Register for this event at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=kzaorjcab&oeidk=a07e8l83g7mb018fad7.

    Mass Hort or NELDHA Members – $15.00
    $20.00 after Thursday January 9, 2014

    Non-Members – $20.00
    $25.00 after Thursday January 9, 2014

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  • Wednesday, December 11, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Evolution in a Toxic World

    With pesticides in produce, mercury in fish, and flame retardants permeating our homes, the world has become a toxic place. But as Emily Monosson demonstrates in her groundbreaking book, Evolution in a Toxic World, it has always been toxic. When oxygen first developed in Earth’s atmosphere, it threatened the very existence of life: now we literally can’t live without it. According to Monosson, understanding life’s evolutionary response to environmental poisons and how rapidly or slowly life adapted to such threats can teach us a great deal about today’s and tomorrow’s most dangerous contaminants. Emily Monosson, PhD, is Environmental Toxicologist and Adjunct Professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.   She will speak on Wednesday, December 11, from 7 – 8 in the Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, and the fee is free for members of the Arboretum, $10 for nonmembers.  Students: call 617.384.5277 to register  free.  To sign up, visit http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1260&DayPlannerDate=12/11/2013&utm_source=November-December+2013+Lectures+and+Classes&utm_campaign=Fall+2013+Classes&utm_medium=email.

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  • Monday, December 2, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted Volume VIII: The Early Boston Years, 1882 – 1890

    Frederick Law Olmsted relocated from New York to Boston in the early 1880s. With the help of his stepson and partner, John Charles Olmsted, his professional office grew to become the first of its kind: a modern landscape architecture practice with projects throughout the country. During the period covered in Volume VIII of the Olmsted Papers, Olmsted and his partners designed the park system of Boston and Brookline—including the Back Bay Fens, Franklin Park, and the Muddy River Improvement.

    Though Olmsted would never provide a definitive treatise on landscape architecture, this volume contains some of his most mature and powerful statements on the practice of landscape architecture. Join The Arnold Arboretum and the sponsors below on Monday, December 2 at the Weld Hill Research Building for a lecture, panel discussion and celebration of this newly published landscape design resource.  Fee: $10 (Students: Call 617.384.5277 to register for free.)

    Doors open at 6:00pm. Light refreshments served.  Books available for purchase and signing.  Weld Hill Research Building is located at 1300 Centre Street, Roslindale, MA.

    Sponsored by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Friends of Fairsted, and National Association for Olmsted Parks in collaboration with the City of Boston, Parks and Recreation Department, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, and Town of Brookline, Parks and Open Space Division.

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  • Thursday, November 21, 6:00 pm – From Buffalo to Boston: Olmsted’s Evolving Vision of Urban Park Systems

    The Friends of Fairsted presents From Buffalo to Boston: Olmsted’s Evolving Vision of Urban Park Systems, a lecture by Francis R. Kowsky, PhD,  SUNY Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus and author of the the book The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System, on Thursday, November 21, at Wheelock College, 43 Hawes Street in Brookline.  The reception and book signing will begin at 6, with the lecture at 7.

    Beginning in 1868, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux planned the first metropolitan park system in America for Buffalo, New York.  They designed three distinct parks linked by “parkways,” majestic, tree canopied boulevards that were linear parks in themselves.  Displaying a map of Buffalo at the Paris Exhibition in 1878, Olmsted called it the best planned city in the world.  That same year, he began to apply the concept he had pioneered in Buffalo to the Boston metropolitan area.  Here, he planned six parks stretching from the Charles River to the harbor, a remarkable chain of green spaces today known as the Emerald Necklace.

    Free and open to the public.  Seating is limited and reservations are required.  Email friendsoffairsted@gmail.com.  Limited street parking is available.  Public parking is not allowed in the Wheelock parking lot.

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  • Thursday, November 7, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – A Rich Spot of Earth: Garden Design Luncheon and Lecture

    Join Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum for an illustrated talk by Peter J. Hatch on Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello, Virginia. The luncheon and presentation will be held at the Rhode Island Country Club, 150 Nayatt Road in Barrington, Rhode Island on Thursday, November 7, from 10 – 2. Members of Blithewold pay $75, non-members $85. Reserve by calling 401-253-2707, or email kwilson@blithewold.org.

    Peter is the former Director of Gardens & Grounds at Monticello, an award-winning author, and advisor to First Lady Michelle Obama on the White House kitchen garden.

    The talk will be followed by a delectable luncheon as well as a book signing.

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  • Tuesday, November 5, 7:00 pm – The Snail Darter and the Dam

    The realities of the darter’s case, author Zygmunt Plater asserts, have been consistently mischaracterized in politics and the media.  His book, The Snail Darter and the Dam,  offers a detailed account of the six-year crusade against a pork-barrel project that made no economic sense and was flawed from the start. In reality TVA’s project was designed for recreation and real estate development. And at the heart of the little group fighting the project in the courts and Congress were family farmers trying to save their homes and farms, most of which were to be resold in a corporate land development scheme. Plater’s gripping tale of citizens navigating the tangled corridors of national power stimulates important questions about our nation’s governance, and at last sets the snail darter’s record straight.

    Plater is professor of law and director of the Land & Environmental Law Program at Boston College Law School. He chaired the State of Alaska Oil Spill Commission’s Legal Research Task Force, is lead author of an environmental law casebook, and has participated in numerous citizen environmental initiatives.  He will appear at Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, on Tuesday, November 5, beginning at 7 pm. Telephone 617-491-2220 for more information.

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