[MassHistPres] Eden on the Charles -- where!

[Doug Carr]

I have read "Eden on the Charles" and it is a great book. I am not the only one who thinks so, as it was a 2011Pulitzer Prize finalist in History. I grew up around Boston, and thought I knew quite a bit about Boston's history, but Eden on the Charles presents some great new information and ideas about Boston's development. 

Regards,

Doug Carr

dcarr at cube3studio.com
978-379-8726 direct work
781-526-7405 cell 

On Jul 12, 2011, at 6:04 AM, "Dennis De Witt" <djd184 at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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