Hyde Park/West Roxbury

Summer Events Schedule

 

 

Hyde Park/West Roxbury: The what

Today! July 12
West Roxbury Main Streets in Bloom
57 Mount Vernon Street
6:30-8 pm
Join the local Main Streets association in support of the revitalization of the Main Streets’ business district.
Suggested donation of $20.
www.wrms.org

July 13-August 17
ReadBoston Storymobile 2007
Hyde Park Library, 35 Harvard Avenue
Fridays, 1:15-2 pm
George Wright Playground, 420 West Street
Fridays, 11-11:45 am
Free
www.readboston.org

July 14
Hyde Park ArtScene
Logan Square
5-9 pm
The central block of Fairmount Avenue will be closed off for the 4th annual festival, featuring local artists and performers.
Free
www.hydeparksinitiative.org

July 14
WalkBoston: WalkTalk: Hyde Park
9-10:30 am
Join State Rep Willie Mae Allen for a walk through a little known neighborhood in Hyde Park and see unique architecture and urban planning.
Free
Call 617.722.2575 for registration and meeting place.

July 19
The Neighborhood 3rd Thursdays
Sponsored by West Roxbury Main Streets
The Corrib Pub & Restaurant
2030 Centre Street, West Roxbury
9 pm-2 am
Free
www.wrms.org

Aug 12
Stony Brook Kids Fest
Stony Brook Reservation
11am-3pm
Enjoy a fun-filled day complete with crafts, games, races, live animals, music, food and much more!
Free
617.333.7404


Hyde Park/West Roxbury: The where

Brook Farm, Hyde Park
This National Historic Landmark once served as home to some of New England’s most famous free thinkers associated with the transcendentalism movement, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and founding member Nathanial Hawthorne.  View 179 acres of rolling fields, woodland and wetlands.
Tours are offered periodically.  Call 617.698.1802 for more information.

George Wright Golf Course, Hyde Park
Named after Baseball Hall of Famer, George Wright, this is one of two Boston public golf courses.  The course was designed as one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930’s. 
420 West Street
www.georgewrightgolfcourse.com

Theodore Parker Church, West Roxbury
Formed by, and named after, the transcendentalist minister who was a leader in the abolitionist movement.  The original colonial meetinghouse was badly damaged in an 1890 fire and a new stone building, featuring Tiffany windows, was erected in its place. 
1859 Centre Street
www.tparkerchurch.org

Millennium Park, West Roxbury
This beautiful 100-acre public park was formerly a garbage dump!  The dump was closed in 1994 by Mayor Menino and the park became the city’s biggest recycling project, with dirt from the Big Dig used to fill in the site.  Enjoy six miles of trails, an amphitheatre, baseball fields and picnic areas.
VFW Parkway, Gardner Street

Stony Brook Reservation
Over 475 acres of scenic landscapes and recreational facilities make up this Hyde Park reservation.  Hike or bike ten to twelve-mile trails or fish in the fresh waters of Turtle Pond.  Various sporting arenas and fields are also accessible.
Open year-round, from dawn to dusk.
Turtle Pond Parkway, West Roxbury, Hyde Park


Hyde Park/West Roxbury: The skinny

• Hyde Park is the most southern neighborhood in the City of Boston and was a separate town until 1912.

• Elizabeth Short, the actress known as “the Black Dahlia” was born in Hyde Park.  Her grisly murder in 1947 inspired a movie and remains unsolved.

• Boston’s current Mayor, Thomas M. Menino, a lifelong resident of Hyde Park, is the first Italian-American to serve in that office.

• West Roxbury was originally part of Roxbury and used mainly as farmland until 1851 when it formed its own government.

• Former New Kid on the Block, Joey McIntyre, attended Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury.

• The Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury, founded in 1645, is the oldest school in continuous existence in North America.

• Bellevue Hill, located in the Stony Brook Reservation, is the highest natural point in Greater Boston at 338 feet.

Hyde Park/West Roxbury: The who

Hyde Park:
Thomas M. Menino, Current Mayor of Boston
Manny Delcarmen, Boston Red Sox pitcher
Maura Tierney, Actress
Felix D. Arroyo, First Latino Boston City Councilor

West Roxbury:
Anthony Michael Hall, Actor
Robert Gould Shaw, Colonel of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.