[MassHistPres] Eden on the Charles -- where!

[Dennis De Witt]

A talk amidst the steam engines!

Tuesday Night 7/11/11

7:00 pm

Michael Rawson

Author of  Eden on the Charles 

. . . which explores how Boston 
• channeled country rivers and lakes through aquiducts for clean water which allowed the city to expand
• Undertook in the Back Bay 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!

Dennis De Witt


Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
2450 Beacon St.
Boston, Massachusetts 02467 

Overlooking the Chestnut Hill Reservoir

A short walk on a nice night from the Green Line
-- B-Line at Chestnut Hill Ave or across the BC campus and around the Reservoir
-- C-Line at Cleveland Circle
-- D-line at Reservoir

Please park ONLY in the 30 designated Museum spaces 
OR to the east along Beacon St. 
OR in the MWRA lot at the foot of the dam below the gatehouse



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.cs.umb.edu/mailman/private/masshistpres/attachments/20110712/137be2df/attachment.htm>