On Wednesday, August 13, beginning at 11 am, take an hour long walking tour of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and its Fenway neighborhood. Learn about nearby buildings and their architecture, along with fascinating information about the Back Bay Fens and other sites in the Fenway neighborhood. The tour is free with Museum admission and leaves from the Sharf Visitor Center. For more information visit www.mfa.org/programs.
You are invited to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy on Tuesday, November 12 at the Linda K. Paresky Conference Center at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts. Reception begins at 5:30, program at 6 pm. Please join them and come together to thank volunteers, celebrate our parks community, and share a vision of the Emerald Necklace. The Keynote Address will be given by Ned Friedman: The Emerald Necklace – Urban Gems of Landscape and Biodiversity. There will be a special presentation of the 2013 Volunteer of the Year Award to Gerry Wright, co-founder of Olmsted 2022, Friends of Jamaica Pond, and Friends of Olmsted Park – Boston. Hosting sponsor of this meeting is Simmons College, and the meeting sponsors are MASCO and Colleges of the Fenway. This event is free and open to the public. RSVP by November 4 online at www.emeraldnecklace.org, or by calling 617-522-2700.
William (Ned) Friedman is Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, and Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He received an A.B. in Biology from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in Botany from the University of California, Berkeley.
The Fenway Garden Society invites you to explore 7 acres of historic parkland in the heart of Boston on Saturday, June 1 from 11 – 3 (rain date Sunday, June 2).
More than 40 Fenway victory gardeners will open their gates to visitors. Come view a spectrum of urban flower and vegetable gardens, take a special Emerald Necklace Conservancy tour, picnic in the meadow (& visit our local restaurants), play bocce, learn new gardening tips and get inspired! The entrance is on Park Drive @ Boylston Street, Fenway. For more information, call (857) 244-0262. Free admission. Image from www.bostonguide.com.
The Emerald Necklace docents cordially invite you to a special event: What Lurks Below … The Unseen Beneath Back Bay and Fenway, on Thursday, June 7 at the Blount Auditorium, Wentworth Institute of Technology, 550 Parker Street in Boston. The evening will begin at 5:30 with a reception, and the talk, by James Lambrechts, P.E., Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Wentworth, will begin at 6 pm.
Have you ever wondered what lurks below your feet as you stroll the pathways of the Fens or sit atop the stands at Fenway Park? Professor Lambrechts will take you on a journey to the underground for a fascinating look at what lies beneath Back Bay and Fenway. From ice age to Olmsted, foul marsh to fashionable neighborhood, join Professor Lambrechts on this expedition through a labyrinth of layers deep below the landscape. For more information, call 617-522-2700, or visit www.emeraldnecklace.org. There is free onsite parking. Register online by clicking here. This is a free event sponsored by the Emerald Necklace Conservancy.
Learn more about the history of the Back Bay Fens at a fascinating docent talk on Sunday, January 22, from 1 – 3. Meet at the Emerald Necklace Gatehouse, 125 The Fenway. Free, no reservations required.
We’ve just received a Save the Date card from the Emerald Necklace Conservancy. This year’s Party in the Park, the Justine Mee Liff Fund Luncheon, will take place Wednesday, May 16, will an 11 am reception followed by a 12:30 luncheon in the Kelleher Rose Garden, Back Bay Fens, The Fenway, Boston. The Justine Mee Liff Fund, named for our late Commissioner of Parks and Recreation, preserves the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace. If you have been to this event in the past, you know it is splendid, beautiful, and benefits a worthy cause. For more information, visit www.emeraldnecklace.org/partyinthepark, or call 617-522-2700.
The City of Boston will hold two Community Workshops on Climate Action, the first on Tuesday, March 2, from 4:30 – 8:30 pm, at Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, in the Mary Norton Hall on the Second Floor, and the second on Wednesday, March 10, from 4:40 – 8:30 pm, at the Metcalf Ballroom, George Sherman Union, Boston University, 775 Commonwealth Avenue. Target neighborhoods under discussion in the March 2 session will be East Boston, Charlestown, South Boston, and in the Downtown area, Chinatown, North Leather District, and the West End. Neighborhoods under discussion on March 10 include Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Kenmore, South End, Allston, Brighton, and the Fenway. Interpretation available on request in American Sign Language, Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish. You must register in order to ensure a space at this workshop. You may register online at www.cityofboston.gov/calendar/#/?i=2.
You have one more day to check off another person on your holiday gift list – give a beautiful, hand decorated holiday wreath from The Garden Club of the Back Bay. Your wreath can be delivered in Back Bay, Beacon Hill, the Fenway, and South End, with an elegant gift card attached, or you may pick it up yourself at The First Lutheran Church of Boston, 299 Berkeley Street, on the corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets, and present it to that special person in your life. The proceeds from this sale go directly into neighborhood beautification, especially benefiting the street trees of the City of Boston. Click here to print the order form and fax it immediately to 617-249-1762. Our on-line check out is currently out of service. If you prefer to telephone, call 617-859-8865. Your wreaths will be ready for pick up or delivery on Thursday, December 10. If you would like to be on next year’s mailing list, email info@bostonflora.com, and we’ll be happy to notify you in 2010.
Professor Keith Morgan of Boston University will present an illustrated lecture on The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, 1880 – 1936, at the Wheelock College Auditorium, 43 Hawes Street in Brookline, on Wednesday, October 28. A reception at 6:00 pm will be followed by the lecture at 7:00 pm. Seating is limited. Please rsvp to friendsoffairsted@gmail.com, or telephone 617-566-1689 x 235. Cohosted by the Friends of Fairsted; Brookline Greenspace Alliance; Brookline Historical Society; Emerald Necklace Conservancy; Fenway Alliance; High Street Hill Association; Historic New England; Mount Auburn Cemetery; Muddy River Restoration Project Maintenance and Management Oversight Committee; NPS, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site; Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter; and the Friends of Stonehurst.
On Thursday, August 6, from 5 – 8 pm, enjoy free admission to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Fenway Court, and take a magical journey from twilight to moonlight. Meet and greet Joe the Roving Magician and see what magic happens before your eyes. Take a peek into the past, present and future with tarot card reader Kasey Robinsong. Enjoy Bass-Line Motion’s presentation of Analog Love in a Digital World featuring Adrienne Hawkins and Larry Roland with Impulse Dance Company. For directions and more information, log on to www.gardnermuseum.org.
