[MassHistPres] Eden on the Charles

Tue Jul 12 05:52:47 EDT 2011

A talk amidst the steam engines!

TONIGHT  7/11/11

7:00 pm

Michael Rawson

Author of  Eden on the Charles 

. . . which explores how and why Boston 
• carried distant rivers through aquiducts for clean water which let Boston expand
• Filled Back Bay in the largest landfill project of the 19th. century;
• Created a metropolitan system of parks and greenways, 
• Worked through rival ideas of nature and competing visions of a “city upon a hill” 
• And removed the cows from Boston Common -- but only after much debate and political struggle!

. . . and if you can't come, I highly recommend the book.

Dennis De Witt
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