Village Condominium Association
Sheepshearing Festival
by J. F. Weiler
Gore Place sheep
Photo by J. F. Weiler
The twenty-fifth Sheepshearing Festival will be held at Gore Place on Saturday, April 28th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be demonstrations of sheepshearing, herding dogs, and spinning and weaving. There will also be a crafts fair, live music, historic re-enactors and food vendors. Admission of $15; children 12 and under are free. There is free parking.
Gore Place, off Route 20, is located at 52 Gore Street, Waltham. Phone 781-894-2798 or visit www.GorePlace.org for more information.
190th Birthday Party!
Jamaica Pond, the source of The Muddy River
Photo by J. F. Weiler
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy will celebrate Frederick Law Olmsted’s 190th birthday on Sunday, April 29th from 2 to 4 p.m.
Birthday cake will be served! Olmsted was the 19th-century landscape architect who designed the Emerald Necklace around the Muddy River in Boston's Back Bay Fens.
The Muddy River: Start to Finish, a photographic essay by Joseph Flack Weiler, will be exhibited in the Emerald Necklace Visitors Center, 125 The Fenway, Boston (opposite the Museum of Fine Arts).
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy will also be celebrating the start of the $91 million Muddy River Restoration Project. This extensive project will enhance flood control and restore the Emerald Necklace's Muddy River to the way it looked when Olmsted finished his work in 1895.
For more information phone the Emerald Necklace Conservancy at 617-522-2700 or visit www.EmeraldNecklace.org.
Cuttings
1. A new invasive weed that is appearing in the Village gardens and lawns is hairy bitttercress (Cardamine hirsuta). It has tiny white spring flowers on a three-inch stem.
2. Living on Earth provides great radio coverage of local and world environmental issues. It airs on WGBH 89.7 FM on Saturday 7 to 8 a.m. and WBUR 90.9 FM on Sunday 7 to 8 a.m.
3. To join the Garden Committee for our once monthly June, July and August garden tours to choose the most interesting Village garden & courtyard, please phone Debby at the Village Office, 617-923-1684 or e-mail Joe at WeilerPhotoGallery@comcast.net.
Written for the Apr. 2012 Village Newsletter.