Boston Flora

Tag: Roxbury Historical Society

  • Saturday, March 19, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – Herbs, Botanicals and Wellness in Colonial New England, Online

    Join the Shirley Eustis House Association online on March 19 at 10 am to explore the herbal pharmacy in early American gardens with Master Gardener Mary Lou O’Connor. Mary Lou will highlight the growing selection of medicinal plants in the historic gardens at Shirley Place and how they were used to promote wellness and treat illnesses and injuries in early New England. She’ll also discuss how Native American knowledge and African traditions combined with European herbal know-how to make for a particularly American herbal medicine cabinet or pharmacopeia. Co-sponsored by the Roxbury Historical Society. Questions: contact Suzy Buchanan at director@shirleyeustishouse.org. Donations encouraged. Register with Eventbrite HERE

  • Wednesday, October 2, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Lost Breweries of Roxbury and Jamaica Plain

    In 1900, Boston had the most breweries per person of any city in the country – and the overwhelming majority of them were in the Stony Brook area of Roxbury and Jamaica Plain.
    During the heyday of Boston breweries, this area was the center of the industry with at least 24 breweries along the banks of the Stony Brook. On Wednesday, October 2, beginning at 7 pm at The Urbano Project, 29 Germania Street (in the Brewery Complex) earn about about the history of brewing in Boston and the people who established the breweries in our city. The speaker is Michael Reiskind, vice-president and historian of the Jamaica Plain Historical Society, who has been researching Boston’s historic breweries for twenty years. The event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by Haley House, Discover Roxbury, Roxbury Historical Society and the Jamaica Plain Historical Society.

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