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  • Tuesday, April 22 – Deadline for NABB Green Challenge

    The Green Committee of The Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay invites you to make GREEN improvements in your life before Earth Day 2014. Join NABB’s GREEN Challenge and be entered in a drawing to win a Gift Card to Back Bay restaurants or other prizes!

    Fill out a quick Carbon Footprint form online and you’ll be on your way to saving money and potentially winning a great prize. Save energy and the planet with easy, no-cost sustainability actions. Do your part to honor Earth Week, our neighborhood, and Mother Earth!

    Check out the prizes you might win:
    GRAND PRIZE: One-night stay for two at The Lenox, an historic Boston landmark and
    an industry leader in environmental initiatives
    $50 Gift Card to ever-popular Papa Razzi Trattoria
    $50 Gift Card to Reflections on Newbury St. Boston’s “Best of the New” for great gifts, trendy home décor & tabletop store
    20% off lunch on your next visit to L’Espalier (limit 6 guests)
    Energy efficient Advanced Power strips to save wasted “vampire” power and $$ ($35 value)
    NSTAR Combo Box of Desk Lamp, LED Night Light, Incandescent style LEDs ($50 value)
    …and more coming

    Deadline to submit form online or by mail: Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22, 2014.

    Get started by clicking on http://www.nabbonline.com/committees/green_committee for more information.

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  • Saturday, November 21, 10:00 am – Gifts from the Garden

    Come to Old Sturbridge Village on Saturday, November 21, beginning at 10 am, for another in its Garden Thyme programs.  Roberta McQuaid will conduct a class entitled “Gifts from the Garden.”  Who doesn’t love a homemade gift?  Use the next month to get busy crafting simple, garden inspired gifts, including teas, sachets, potpourris, and the like.  Meet at the Visitor Center, and you will be led to the setting of this workshop.  For more information, log on to www.osv.org.

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  • Wednesday, October 21, 5:30 pm – The Creation of Boston’s Back Bay

    Gibson House Museum Executive Director Charles Swift will give an illustrated lecture on the history of the creation of Boston’s Back Bay, discussing the events which led to the decision to fill the Back Bay (see early photo of Back Bay fens below) and the history of the earliest buildings in the Back Bay.  Date:  October 21, 2009 at the Gibson House Museum, 137 Beacon Street, Back Bay.  Reception at 5:30 PM, Program at 6:00 PM. Free for museum members, $10 for non-members. Reserve by calling 617 267 6338 or email the Gibson House Museum.

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  • Saturday, October 17, 10:00 am – Eden’s Gems: A Walk in the Village Orchard

    Garden Thyme programs are held on the third Saturday of each month and are FREE for members of Old Sturbridge Village. Led by Village horticultural and agricultural staff, these programs and workshops are held at various sites and deal with a variety of plant-related themes and topics. Participants gather at the Visitor Center at 10 a.m. each month and are led to the appropriate site or setting.  On October 17, enjoy Eden’s Gems: A Walk in the Village Orchard, with Christie Higginbottom. Did you ever wonder why 1800s cooks and cider makers had over 800 apple varieties to choose from and we only have a dozen or so? Meet the Village’s historic fruits — the Mothers, the Spitzenburgs, the Russets, the Baldwins and the Sheepsnose apples. Learn about seedlings, scions and rootstocks. Find out how the art and skill of propagating these trees keeps our apple heritage alive.  For more information, and directions, log on to www.osv.org.

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  • Saturday, August 30, 2:30 p.m. – Summer Herb Walk

    Join the Northeast Seacoast unit of the Herb Society of America on an end of summer Herb Walk in the woods.  Meet at The Mustard Seed, 80 Stage Road, Nottingham, New Hampshire.  The walk will be led by Jen Munson, 603-427-1475.  You may email her for directions at jenmun@yahoo.com.  The website for the Herb Society of America is www.herbsociety.org.