Tag: Back Bay Fens
Meg Muckenhoupt’s Chronicle Debut!
Union Park Press author Meg Muckenhoupt made her television debut on the September 30th episode of WCVB’s Chronicle HD , where she discussed Boston’s “hidden treasure” parks and gardens. In the episode, Meg shows where to find some of Boston’s most relaxing—and little-known—green spaces amid the hustle and bustle of city life. She even walks [...]
Boston’s Gardens & Green Spaces on WCVB’s Chronicle HD
As we teased earlier this month, we’re thrilled to announce that Meg Muckenhoupt, author of Boston’s Gardens and Green Spaces, will be featured on Chronicle this Friday, September 30, at 7:30 PM. In an episode centered on the Boston area’s “Hidden Treasures,” Meg will be discussing secret gardens and little-known parks. Without giving TOO much [...]
Chronicles of a Chronicle Shoot
Here at Union Park Press, we are BIG fans of Chronicle HD, a local nightly news magazine show. So it goes without saying that we were pretty excited to work with a Chronicle producer in recent weeks to put together a “last gasp of summer” episode featuring hidden treasures of the Boston area. It just [...]
Olmsted, Grundel, and the Remaining Back Bay Fens
By now, anyone who actually cares about Boston’s 19th-century park design has already read Justin Martin’s article “A Body of Water so Foul“ about Frederick Law Olmsted and the Back Bay Fens. For those of you who don’t care, or can no longer read articles longer than 140 characters due to a nervous Twitter habit, here’s [...]
Fenway’s Incomplete Street
Some wayward bit of internet flotsam recently turned my attention to Boston’s Complete Streets web page about the Audubon Circle project in the Fenway. This “circle”—or, rather, this expanse of pedestrian-imperiling imitation highway—was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, sort of. Olmsted, the landscape genius who designed most of Boston’s Emerald Necklace, wanted to connect Beacon [...]
Winchester’s Arboretum
Some of Boston’s most intriguing landscapes are invisible to casual passers-by. Ramler Park sits quietly on a side street near a block from the Back Bay Fens; the Howard M. Ulfelder Healing Garden is tucked away on the eighth floor of Mass General Hospital’s Yawkey Center. In Winchester, the Cotton-Arbo retum nonchalantly waits to pounce [...]
