When Boston’s nonprofit The Esplanade Association came out with a 100-page report Esplanade 2020:A Vision for the Future, Boston’s media outlets were quick to add their incisive, original reporting to the debate on the future of Boston’s parks. Look at all the different headlines! Back Bay Patch: Ferris Wheel Part of Esplanade’s New Vision Boston Herald: [...]
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Meg Muckenhoupt
Where are we going to find new parks? Over the years, Boston has lost a lot of public open space—even parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, maestro of the Emerald Necklace. Olmsted’s Wood Island Park was entirely paved over to create Logan Airport; the fact that it was designed by Emerald Necklace planner Frederick Law Olmsted didn’t [...]
Hoo boy—just when you’d think the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy could get some peace and quiet, what with Occupy Boston decamped and a mostly empty calendar, the Boston Herald suddenly discovers that Nancy Brennan doesn’t know how to use e-mail. While it’s certainly amusing to read Brennan’s panicked typing, the grousing about her salary as [...]
As the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s public relations staff have been trying to tell you for weeks now, the new Gardner Museum wing will be opening on Thursday, January 19. What they don’t tell you is that Mrs. Gardner would never have approved of the the Museum’s plan for the new Lynch Foundation garden—or the [...]
Occupy Boston’s last little tent has been evicted from Dewey Square (although you can still make your own tent if you like, or join Occupy Boston’s Tiny Tents Task Force), so the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway has returned to the people, right? Well, that depends on whether you think the Greenway actually belonged to the people in the first [...]
All right, I’ll admit it: most of you probably aren’t spending much time in parks nowadays. It’s cold and dark, and when it gets warm the ground is muddy. Eew! Far better to stay clean, warm, and motionless in front of a screen somewhere. That’ll please the ghosts of our Puritan forebears. I can hear [...]
Your tomatoes exploded in October’s snow, your lettuce succumbed in a long, painful wilt, and your parsley is looking a little crunchier ever day. Fall is passing, and winter is nigh. How is a thrifty Bostonian to supply herself with fresh vegetables through the coming snows? Should you hoard your few precious turnips, gnawing on [...]
Black Friday is nearly upon us! All good Americans are honor-bound to abandon their turkey-addled relatives, proceed to the nearest shopping district, and buy stuff. If you are a suburbanite, you are also obligated to spend time complaining about how hard it is to park at the mall, and sneer at the city stores without [...]
Occupy Boston, New England’s newest city on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, will be staying put for at least two more weeks; a judge has issued a restraining order against the city of Boston, preventing police from clearing out the protestors and their tents until after a December 1 hearing. That order puts a kibosh [...]
It’s official: you can celebrate your ancestors, but you need to do it in private. Forest Hills Cemetery will not be holding a Day of the Dead ceremony on November 2 this year. Forest Hills held an annual Day of the Dead Festival for years; you can easily find photos of past festivals on-line. This year’s festival was [...]
