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  • Saturday, March 16, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Ethan Carr: Getting it Together at Franklin Park, The Past and Future of a Boston Landmark

    UMASS professor and author Ethan Carr discusses his 2023 nonfiction book, Boston’s Franklin Park. Franklin Park is one of the great urban parks of the world. Generations of Bostonians have loved this landscape and invested it with many diverse memories and meanings. Today the park is at a turning point. Mayor Wu has approved an Action Plan to guide its future, and the City of Boston and its partners have proposed new multi-million dollar construction projects. The time is right to consider the past, as well as the future, of Franklin Park.

    Ethan Carr is a professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His latest book is Boston’s Franklin Park (Amherst: Library of American Landscape History, 2023).

    This event is co-sponsored by the Grove Hall Branch of the BPL, the Dorchester Historical Society and the JP Historical Society. It is free and open to the public. It will use a hybrid format you can attend in-person or via Zoom. Please register here for the Zoom details: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pUtwfzf1RL-U8n5yWxCJdw

    In the case of heavy snow, the event will be held virtually.

  • Now through December – Salvaging Eden

    Salvaging Eden is a series of photographs by Shawn Saumell utilizing items discarded by nature.  These dreamscapes are a discourse on conservation and preservation with a dark Utopian air.  Mr. Saumell’s work is collected nationally and internationally.  Photographs are included in such prestigious permanent collections as the Center for Fine Arts Photography, the Brooklyn Art Library, and the Shah Alam Gallery in Malaysia.  See this exhibit at the Grove Hall Branch of the Boston Public Library, 41 Geneva Avenue in Dorchester.  For hours, visit www.bpl.org/branches/grove.htm.