Event Calendar
BGSA Winter Walk
January 29, 2012, 10-11:30 am
Longwood MBTA Station (Riverside line)
As part of BGSA’s ongoing Environmental Learning Project, Tom Brady, Brookline Conservation Administrator, Project Administrator for the Muddy River Restoration Project and Tree Warden will lead a walk in Riverway Park. Topics may include the Muddy River Restoration Project in the Emerald Necklace which calls for design strategies and best management practices for stormwater management, improved water quality, invasive species control, and flood control; the identification and role of trees to provide cleaner air and climate control; and the new Open Space Plan which strives to protect open space that contributes to a sustainable urban environment.
Frederick Law Olmsted 1882-1890: Boston, Brookline and Beyond
March 15, 2012, Reception at 6 PM, Lecture at 7
Wheelock College, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
Ethan Carr, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and editor of Volume 8 of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Early Boston Years 1882-1890, provides an insider's look at the process of preparing the volume including new and revealing details of his work on the Boston Park System. The volume will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2012.
For further information e-mail friendsoffairsted@gmail.com.
Co-sponsored by Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery, Historic New England, the Brookline GreenSpace Alliance, the Brookline Historical Society, The Fenway Alliance, the High Street Hill Association, The Landscape Institute at the Boston Architectural College, the New England Society of Architectural Historians, and The Trustees of Reservations,
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