Join the Charlesgate Alliance on Thursday, June 5 at 3 pm as they dedicate fourteen new trees, seven of which are honoring the inspirational Fran Gershwin of the Muddy River Restoration Project (MMOC.). We will be meeting in the Grove section of Charlesgate Park, bounded by Charlesgate East and Beacon Street. This tree planting has been made possible by lead grants from the Boston Red Sox and Berklee College of Music, plus hundreds of individual donors. Rain date is Friday, June 6 at 3 pm.
Join the MMOC and the Muddy River Cabinet for Public Oversight Reimagined on Wednesday evening, April 26th. This Annual Meeting will coincide with the near completion of the historic Restoration Project—and the birthday of visionary landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Venue: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. For details email info@muddyrivermmoc.org or click HERE.
Brooklyn’s Resilient Edge: The Transformation of Industrial Waterfront into Brooklyn Bridge Park, is a lecture by Nate Trevethan, Senior Associate at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and senior design team member for Brooklyn Bridge Park, sponsored by the Friends of Fairsted, to take place March 14, 2013, with reception at 6:00 pm, lecture at 7:00 pm, at Wheelock College, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline. Free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Reservations are requested: e-mail friendsoffairsted@gmail.com or leave a message at 617-566-1689, ext. 265.
Ambitious and visionary goals guide the creative team in their transformation of Brooklyn’s former industrial waterfront into a new public landscape of diverse recreational, economic, ecological and social possibilities: to preserve the historic urban context and the way it is experienced in this dramatic waterfront site. The award-winning design by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates gives voice to physical history, geography, industry, urbanity and evolving recreational needs as it transforms a challenging waterfront into a sustainable public park of monumental vistas and diverse landscape experiences.
Friends of Fairsted gratefully acknowledges the support of the following co-sponsors: National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site; Wheelock College; Arnold Arboretum; Boston Society of Landscape Architects; Brookline GreenSpace Alliance; Brookline Historical Society; Charles River Conservancy; Emerald Necklace Conservancy; The Fenway Alliance; Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery; Friends of the Muddy River; Friends of the Public Garden; High Street Hill Association; Historic New England; The Landscape Institute of the Boston Architectural College; Library of American Landscape History; Massachusetts Historical Society; Muddy River Restoration Project Maintenance and Management Oversight Committee; National Association for Olmsted Parks; New England Landscape Design and History Association; Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter; The Trustees of Reservations.
