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  • Thursday, September 22, 6:30 pm – The History of Horticulture in Boston

    Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of growing plants. It includes the cultivation of fruits, flowers and vegetables and also includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, landscape and garden design, construction, maintenance, and arboriculture.

    Noted historian Anthony M. Sammarco will discuss the early years of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and discuss the horticultural pursuits in Brighton, among them the Winships, Brecks, Kenricks and the many nurseries that once flourished in Brighton. This Thursday, September 22 event is sponsored by the Friends of the Brighton Branch Boston Library, the Brighton Allston Historical Society, and the Brighton Garden and Horticultural Club. The program begins at 6:30 pm at the Brighton Branch, Boston Public Library, 40 Academy Hill Road in Brighton Center. Free admission. Refreshments will be served.

  • Wednesday, August 12, 5:30 pm – Summer Walk at Forest Hills Cemetery with Anthony Sammarco

    Forest Hills’ founder, Henry A.S. Dearborn, was a civic leader with expertise in law and politics, as well as in landscape design and horticulture. The first president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Dearborn, along with others, helped shape the rural garden cemetery movement in the United States. Join Anthony Sammarco for a walking tour celebrating Dearborn and other prominent 19th century horticulturists buried at Forest Hills Cemetery including Samuel Downer, John Richardson and Thaddeus Clapp.

    Meet on Wednesday, August 12 at 5:30 at Main Gate, 95 Forest Hills Avenue in Jamaica Plain. Wear comfortable shoes and bring water; this is a ninety (90) minute walk (with frequent stops) over varied terrain. $10 per person, sponsored by Forest Hills Cemetery and the Forest Hills Educational Trust. For more information call 617-524-0128.

  • Sunday, February 3, 3:00 pm – Howard Johnson’s 28 Flavors

    For most of the twentieth century the orange roof of Howard Johnson’s was a familiar sight along the great American roadside. When a motorist spotted a Howard Johnson’s, they knew exactly what to expect – with standardized menus and building designs, a Howard Johnson’s miles away felt as familiar and comforting as the one back home. Howard Johnson restaurants, in attractive Colonial Revival buildings sporting orange roofs and sea blue shutters opened throughout the New England area. By the late 1930’s, with the popularity of the automobile, these restaurants were opened on major roads and interstate highways where the traveling public could be assured of consistently high quality foods that were the same served locally whether in Maine or Florida. Anthony M. Sammarco has lectured frequently on local Boston history and is the author of more than fifty books on the history of Boston and surrounding cities and towns. His efforts to make history more accessible to the general public have led to many awards and honors. He teaches history at the Urban College of Boston. Anthony will speak on Sunday, February 3, 2013 at the St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 24 Orchard Hill Road in Jamaica Plain. This event is sponsored by the Jamaica Plain Historical Society and is free and open to the public.  For details, contact jphs@jphs.org.

  • Monday, April 23, 6:30 pm – History & Development of Allston Brighton

    Anthony Sammarco, noted author of more than sixty books on Boston and surrounding cities and towns, will outline in an illustrated slide lecture the history of this dynamic and ever evolving neighborhood of Boston. The presentation will take place at the Brighton Branch of the Boston Public Library, 40 Academy Hill Road in Brighton. Free admission.

    Originally known as Little Cambridge, Allston-Brighton remained largely a rural farming area for almost two centuries after the Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled in 1630 by the Puritans. Agitation in the early nineteenth century led to the creation of the Town of Brighton. Throughout the 19th century, Brighton thrived with not only the stock yards where cattle was king, but also numerous nurseries, among them that of Joseph Breck, founder of the Breck Seed Company. That evening, Amy Ryan, president of the Boston Public Library, will announce the Bonifazio and Angela Cocuzzo Cedrone Fund, which Mr. Sammarco created to honor longtime Brighton residents and the late parents of his partner Joe Cedrone. The Cedrone Fund will benefit the Brighton Branch, Boston Public Library.

  • Sunday, June 27, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Collectors & Philanthropists Tour

    Join Anthony Sammarco for a tour on Sunday, June 27 highlighting the lives of intriguing collectors and generous philanthropists buried at Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Avenue, Boston. The Jordans of Jordan Hall, Forsyth of the Forsyth Dental Clinic, and Carney of Carney Hospital are just a few of the men who made vast fortunes and then became patrons of the arts, science, and social causes. Many wealthy women were also active philanthropists, such as Pauline Agassiz Shaw, founder of the North Bennet Street School and supporter of the American kindergarten movement, pictured below.

    Meet at Main Gate. Wear comfortable shoes and bring water; this is a 2-hour walk (with frequent stops) over varied terrain. Admission: $9.  For more information, log on to www.foresthillstrust.org.

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  • Sunday, May 16, 2:00 pm – Horticulturists of Forest Hills

    Discover the horticulturists of 19th century Boston, who developed many of the fruits, flowers and trees that we enjoy today, during a tour led by author and historian Anthony Sammarco at Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Avenue, Jamaica Plain, on Sunday, May 16, beginning at 2:00 pm.  The walking tour is sponsored by The Forest Hills Educational Trust, and there will be a $9 fee to attend.  Sample some of the edible creations of these pioneering horticulturists, including Bartlett’s Pear and Downer’s Late Cherry.  For more information, call 617-524-3354, or log on to www.foresthillstrust.org.  Postcard below painted by Catharina Klein (1861 – 1929).

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  • Sunday, November 15, 4:00 pm – Forest Hills Cemetery Book Party

    Join author Anthony Sammarco and The Forest Hills Educational Trust on Sunday, November 15 at 4:00 pm at Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Avenue in Jamaica Plain, for the launch party of Mr. Sammarco’s new book, Forest Hills Cemetery, 1848 – 2008.

    This new photographic history of Forest Hills Cemetery  celebrates the 160th anniversary of the cemetery. This book is lavishly illustrated and sales will benefit the Trust’s education and preservation projects.

    Laid out in 1848 as a rural garden cemetery by Henry A.S. Dearborn,  its 275 magnificent acres have been the resting place of people of all walks of life, ethnicities, religion and race. Among these are poet Anne Sexton, playwright Eugene O’Neill, ee cummings and William Lloyd Garrison.

    Forest Hills’ landscape is a museum of sculpture, art and monuments that chronicle the Victorian age to the present. The first crematorium in the United States was here and prominent Bostonian suffragette Lucy Stone was the first person to be cremated at Forest Hills in 1893. An active cemetery and an all embracing place, Forest Hills offers a bucolic and picturesque setting for the “gathering of generations,” and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

    Anthony Sammarco has written over fifty books in the Arcadia series, and is a trustee of the Forest Hills Educational Trust and teaches at the Urban College of Boston.  For more information, and for directions, log on to www.foresthillstrust.org.

  • Sunday, July 12, 2 pm – Horticulture Walking Tour of Forest Hills

    Forest Hills’ founder, Henry A.S. Dearborn, was a civic leader with expertise in law and politics, as well as in landscape design and horticulture. The first president of the Massachusetts Horticulture Society, Dearborn, along with others, helped shape the rural garden cemetery movement in the United States. Join Anthony Sammarco, author of more than 50 books on Boston history, for a walking tour celebrating Dearborn and other prominent 19th century horticulturists buried at Forest Hills Cemetery.

    Meet at Main Gate. Wear comfortable shoes and bring water; this is a 2-hour walk (with frequent stops) over varied terrain. Admission: $9.  For more information, and to register, log on to www.foresthillstrust.org.

  • Tuesday, June 16, 6-9 (Raindate Thursday, June 18)- Summer Solstice Celebration

    Explore a Boston treasure! On the longest day of the year, The Forest Hills Educational Trust invites you to join Trustees and Friends of the Forest Hills Educational Trust for a festive evening of twilight tours, trolley rides, al fresco refreshments and vintage cocktails. See masterpieces of sculpture by Daniel Chester French, visit Revolutionary War hero Joseph Warren and poet e.e. Cummings, and view some of the Trust’s innovative contemporary art. Tours will be led by our expert guides Elise Ciregna, Al Maze, Dee Morris, and Trustee Anthony Sammarco; artists Fern Cunningham and Mitch Ryerson will participate in a walk to see their work at Forest Hills.

    Special thanks to Samuel Adams Brewery in Jamaica Plain for donating beer to support the event, and to the expert mixologists of LUPEC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails) for creating vintage cocktails.

    Tickets are $35 and must be purchased in advance. Call 617.524.3354; leave a message with your daytime phone and a representative will call you back for credit card information. Or send an email stating how many tickets and your daytime phone number to: tickets@foresthillstrust.org. Do not email your credit card information.