[MassHistPres] Eden on the Charles -- TONIGHT -- RSVP

[Dennis De Witt]

Thanks for that insolicited testimonial

. . . anyone coming, please RSVP the museum, saying how many and if by car, at:
info at waterworksmuseum.org.  

Additional directions and a parking map are at:
http://www.waterworksmuseum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18&Itemid=3

Apologies for multiple postings -- will be more organized next time.

Dennis De Witt

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On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Doug Carr wrote:

> 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 7/12/11
>> 
>> 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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