#WomensHistory: Abigail Adams | March 15, 2023
Abigail Adams is one of three women celebrated at the Boston Women’s Memorial on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. The [...]
#WomensHistory: Phillis Wheatley | March 1, 2023
The statue of Phillis Wheatley is one of three women subjects of the Boston Women’s Memorial on Commonwealth Avenue [...]
2022 Beneficial Insect Report | January 5, 2023
By Christine Helie, Consulting Entomologist, The Growing Tree Biological Control Native insect predators provide the important ecological service of [...]
Celebrating Women’s History: The Early Years of the Friends | March 14, 2022
The Friends is one of the oldest public-private partnerships in the nation. By the late 1960’s conditions in Boston’s [...]
2021 Beneficial Insect Report | January 3, 2022
Ladybug pupa on newly planted Chestnut Oak (Quercus montana) on The Mall. Ladybugs (Family: Coccinellidae) undergo complete metamorphosis and [...]
#WomensHistory: Lucy Stone | March 17, 2021
Lucy Stone, a leading suffragist, abolitionist, and renowned orator, is one of the three women honored by the Boston [...]
Meet the Statues: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento | January 12, 2021
Beloved by Argentinians, educator, statesman, and writer Domingo Faustino Sarmiento rose from country schoolmaster to become president of his [...]
August 24, 2020 | A Community Conversation
A Community Conversation: The Power of Public Monuments in a Time of Racial Reckoning August 24, 6:00 p.m. Black [...]
Meet The Trees: The Elms | June 17, 2020
Did you know, of all the trees across the Boston Common, the Public Garden, and the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, [...]
First Friends Newsletter | February 18, 2020
*DPR stands for Department of Parks and Recreation