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On view daily from 10am-4pm, now through March 6 in the Hunnewell Building Visitor Center at 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130 Engage with the future at the Arnold Arboretum! Through March 6, view a temporary exhibit in the Hunnewell Building illuminating the Entrance Improvement Project, a phased initiative to renovate all the Arboretum entrances and provide […]
Sunday, March 5, 1:00pm – 2:00pm https://arboretum.harvard.edu/events/event-signup/?id=65517 Stay connected to nature and enjoy the health benefits of a winter walk at the Arnold Arboretum. Docents will cover seasonal interest, Arboretum history, and our plant collections. Please dress for the weather, including footwear. Roads are plowed but not salted and walks may venture onto woodland paths. […]
Thursday, March 9, 5:15-6:30pm https://arboretum.harvard.edu/events/event-signup/?id=66039 Location: Bussey Street Gate (see map). Parking available on Bussey Street outside of the gate. Bring your young naturalists to the Arboretum for an evening of owling. Listen to "Owl Moon"—a story of a little girl’s owling adventure with her father—then walk up Beech Path with listening ears. With luck, we'll […]
Joe Bagley, the Archaeologist for the City of Boston will present the initial findings from the dig conducted at the Loring Greenough House in the fall of 2022. The goal of this project was to survey the basement of the house’s early 19th century summer kitchen and areas of the door yard ahead of planned […]
Joe Bagley, the Archaeologist for the City of Boston will present the initial findings from the dig conducted at the Loring Greenough House in the fall of 2022. The goal of this project was to survey the basement of the house’s early 19th century summer kitchen and areas of the door yard ahead of planned […]
The Friends of the JP Library Tropical Fiesta will be at the JP Branch Library on Saturday, March 11, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Music, food, and pop-up book sale
Sunday, March 12, 1:00pm-2:30pm https://arboretum.harvard.edu/events/event-signup/?id=66540 Location: Meet in front of the Hunnewell Building at 125 Arborway Families need nature at all times of the year! We will answer the question: "Is it spring yet?" by searching for signs of seasonal change along Meadow Road, looking for opening buds, flowers, insects, migratory birds, and more! Please sign up if you […]
Join the Jamaica Plain Historical Society on Zoom for a reading of the play Sophia Hayden Deserves Better by Stephanie Alison Walker. In 1891 a brilliant 23-year-old woman from Jamaica Plain won an architecture contest to design the Woman’s Building for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. What should have been the start to a […]
Join the Jamaica Plain Historical Society on Zoom for a reading of the play Sophia Hayden Deserves Better by Stephanie Alison Walker. In 1891 a brilliant 23-year-old woman from Jamaica Plain won an architecture contest to design the Woman’s Building for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. What should have been the start to a […]
Saturday, March 18, 10:30am-12:00pm https://arboretum.harvard.edu/events/event-signup/?id=65147 Frederick Law Olmsted, considered the father of landscape architecture, designed some 500 public spaces in North America. The Arnold Arboretum, the only arboretum he designed, is a National Historic Landmark and a model for others around the world. Join Arboretum docent Bill Beizer on a tour through the landscape. Learn […]
Sunday, March 19, 1:00-2:00pm https://arboretum.harvard.edu/events/event-signup/?id=65519 Stay connected to nature and enjoy the health benefits of a winter walk at the Arnold Arboretum. Docents will cover seasonal interest, Arboretum history, and our plant collections. Please dress for the weather, including footwear. Roads are plowed but not salted and walks may venture onto woodland paths. After your […]
Thursday, March 23, 6:30-8pm https://arboretum.harvard.edu/events/#then-and-now On-site location: Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre Street, Boston, 02131 The Arnold Arboretum has been collecting plants from around the world for 150 years, but plant exploration today looks very different than it did in the 1800s. From changes in collecting practices to an evolving relationship between the Arboretum […]
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