Special Places | Summer 2019

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Nature’s Happening Take it all in this summer

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Martha's Vineyard High School students help out at Mytoi Gardens on Chappaquiddick Island.

By volunteering with us, you’ll be able to share your skills and develop new ones, surrounded by the beautiful land and culture of Massachusetts. Ongoing and short-term opportunities to volunteer with The Trustees this summer include:

Stewardship & Carpentry Work Flexible schedules Dunes’ Edge, Provincetown Martha’s Vineyard reservations esmall@thetrustees.org

Field & Harvest Crew, Gardeners Flexible schedules Powisset Farm, Dover esmall@thetrustees.org

Events, Programs & Harvest Volunteers Flexible schedules Chestnut Hill Farm, Southbourough mmahan@thetrustees.org

Event Assistants Flexible schedules Powisset Farm, Dover Weir River Farm, Hingham The FARM Institute, Martha’s Vineyard esmall@thetrustees.org

Weekly Garden Volunteers Every Wednesday, 9AM-12Noon Naumkeag, Stockbridge mmahan@thetrustees.org

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DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum encompasses 30 acres of beautiful rolling woodlands and lawns in Lincoln. The largest park of its kind in New England, the Sculpture Park provides a constantly changing landscape of more than 60 large-scale, outdoor, modern, and contemporary sculpture and site-specific installations.

deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Becomes Newest Trustees Reservation Shortly after this issue of Special Places goes to press, The Trustees will welcome deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum as its newest reservation. The final steps to integration are in place—on March 23, the two organizations received approval at the Town of Lincoln’s Annual Town Meeting; a fundraising campaign by both organizations to secure the endowment that will ensure operational stability for deCordova is nearing its goal; and other administrative requirements have been fulfilled. “This is such an important partnership between two organizations who believe in the power of connecting people to nature and culture through engaging art experiences,” said Trustees President & CEO Barbara Erickson.

DeCordova’s decision to pursue a permanent relationship with The Trustees came after

These listings are among dozens and dozens of options for you to help out at a Trustees reservation near you. For more details, and a full

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list of all our volunteer opportunities,

visit thetrustees.org/volunteer.

CORRECTION In the Spring 2019 issue of Special Places, the photo that identified Nathaniel Harris (18121880) was incorrect. The photo that appeared in the article was of his son Nathaniel Preston Harris (1841-1863) who died before his father purchased the Brickyard property.

a comprehensive strategic and financial planning process by its board and staff. The integration process, which began more than two years ago, is scheduled to be completed as of July 1, 2019. In keeping with the wishes and will of Julian de Cordova, who donated the property to the Town of Lincoln in 1948, the land and buildings will continue to be owned by the Town but will be maintained

by The Trustees. “This partnership will be instrumental in securing and sustaining the future of this nationally recognized sculpture park and museum, while also expanding its reach,” added John Ravenal, deCordova’s Executive Director, who will become Vice President, Art & Culture with The Trustees.

Donations to the campaign for deCordova’s endowment are welcomed at decordova.org/ give or through the Trustees Development office at 617.542.7696 (option 7).

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Clothing and accessory retailer Vineyard Vines has introduced two limited edition t-shirts designed to benefit The Trustees—which are available in the company’s Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard shops this summer.

Featuring Over-Sand Vehicle permit graphics, 10% of the profit from sales of the shirts will benefit The Trustees and its work to protect and preserve open space on the islands.

Kitchen, Cooking Classes Added at The FARM Institute The FARM Institute in Edgartown is the beneficiary of a major investment in its continued growth as a first-rate educational facility for Martha’s Vineyard: a state-of-the-art teaching kitchen and event space has recently been completed and is now offering classes. The new kitchen space, designed by island-based Sullivan and Associates, features commercial grade equipment that is designed to be mobile— featuring eight work stations and space for up to 32 students—allowing flexibility for different programs, including lectures and workshop space. “Educational programming around farming and local food production is a key part of our overall mission, including our work here at The FARM Institute,” says Alicia Leuba, Trustees Vice President, Eastern Region. “A teaching kitchen has been part of our vision since our integration with The FARM Institute in 2016. We are thrilled to bring this important project to fruition.” During this inaugural summer of its new kitchen, the farm will offer educational classes and events, featuring guest chefs and instructors, six nights of the week.

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The space will be used by the children participating in The FARM Institute’s Summer Camp during the day. Islands Director for The Trustees, Sam Hart, adds, “We are grateful to the many donors and supporters who helped make this kitchen possible. It is a huge asset for the Vineyard community.” For a full schedule of all offerings at the kitchen and to sign up, visit thetrustees.org/tfi.

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Situated among the trees along the new parking loop on the outskirts of World’s End in Hingham, an easily accessible building—to be named the Wakeman O’Donnell Center—will serve as a new meeting place for visitors and groups, as well as a space for educational programs and activities.

This will be the third and final phase of investment in improvements to the visitor experience at the reservation, which over the past few years has included new parking and entrance enhancements and a Landscape Restoration Project. Named to honor Sam Wakeman and Tom O’Donnell, the two men who spearheaded the effort to raise the funds needed to purchase and protect World’s End from development in 1967, the new structure will create a designated space for educational programming and engagement, unlike any other on the South Shore. The building will also house much needed composting facilities for the site. With its proximity to coastline, as well as woodlands and grassland habitats, the new Center will provide space for environmental education in both a classroom setting and hands-on in nature. Fundraising for the Wakeman O’Donnell Center is currently underway. If you wish to support this important project, contact Jenna Gomes at 617.542.7696 x2029 or jgomes@thetrustees.org.

New Camp Launches at Dover’s Powisset Farm This summer, a new camp experience brings the farm to life for kids ages 7-11 at historic Powisset Farm in Dover. The program—Farmer, Forester, Chef!—provides an expansive look at everything the bucolic 109-acre working farm has to offer. In five-day weekly sessions, kids learn about farming and where food comes from—from preparing soil and planting to cultivation and harvesting—and how to care for the farm’s array of chickens, pigs, sheep, goats, and rabbits. Campers also experience how farming translates into great food by becoming chefs in the Powisset’s teaching kitchen, preparing farm-fresh recipes and sharing their creations with each other. Rounding out the program at nearby Rocky Woods in Medfield, campers spend one day each week hiking the trails, building fairy houses, checking out the latest beaver construction activity, and discovering the wonders of woodland flora and fauna. Ultimately, Farmer, Forester, Chef! is about getting outside, expanding senses, fostering imagination, digging in, and having fun—on the farm, in the forest, and in the kitchen. Six weekly sessions begin July 8. For more information and to register your child, visit thetrustees.org/ffc.

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Campers in Powisset Farm’s new Farmer, Forester, Chef! day camp learn about where their food comes from—field to kitchen to tummy!

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Celebration of Polly Thayer Starr to Begin in 2020 “I seek what the form will reveal of essence, what the visible will tell me of the invisible.”

These are the words of 20th-century Boston artist Polly Thayer Starr. The Thayer family’s Weir River Farm in Hingham became a Trustees property in 1999, and over the next three years The Trustees will celebrate her legacy as an accomplished painter, philanthropist, activist, and naturalist.

Fruitlands Museum will host an exhibit entitled Seeing the Invisible: Exploring the Art and Spirit of Polly Thayer Starr next year, which will feature formal oil paintings as well as many of Starr’s intimate sketches, artist notes, and notebooks. Outdoor exploration stations around the site will invite visitors to explore Thayer’s natural subjects for themselves. At Weir River Farm, an outdoor art installation in 2021 will celebrate the landscape Starr so loved—one of the few remaining pastoral landscapes and scenic agricultural vistas on

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The Algerian Tunic, a self-portrait by Polly Thayer Starr, ca. 1927; Courtesy of the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust

Boston’s South Shore. The Trustees’ Archives & Research Center will also begin a study and conservation of objects and materials currently in Trustees’ archives related to the Thayer family. The Trustees is proud to receive support for these endeavors from the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust, which was created after her death in order to further Starr’s artistic legacy.

Grant Received for Rocky Woods Camping Expansion Rocky Woods, a 491-acre property comprised of expansive woodlands and wetlands in suburban Medfield, has received a 2019 Outdoor Places Grant from retailer REI intended to expand campsite capacity and improve the infrastructure for camping at the reservation. The grant will help The Trustees introduce more first-timers to camping while providing increased opportunities for residents of the Greater Boston area. Currently offering nine rustic campsites adjacent to Chickering Pond, Rocky Woods will be able to increase its capacity to 14 sites in the near future. The grant will also enable trail and visitor center amenity improvements, including a second 2

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bathroom and outdoor shower facilities.

During the day, campers can take advantage of Rocky Woods’ 6.5 miles of trails that wind through varied terrain, as well as canoeing, fishing, and a range of programmed activities to explore. “We believe Rocky Woods will offer an excellent and easy entry point for many people who want to give camping a try, but may not be sure where to start,” said D.A. Hayden, The Trustees Director for the Charles River Valley. The Trustees is grateful for the support of REI, as it seeks to offer more opportunities to engage new generations in the joys of the outdoors.

A tick clinging to your skin is the all-too-common aftermath of a walk in the woods. That’s because ticks have proliferated around the country, with the black-legged deer tick—a scourge the size of a sesame seed—driving record diagnoses of tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease and babesiosis.

The Commonwealth has some of the highest numbers in the country, with more than 50,000 diagnoses of tick-borne illnesses in Massachusetts since 2004 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

With the summer upon us, being tick smart on Trustees properties requires just a few simple precautions to limit your exposure. Treat your clothing with insect repellants that have been shown to be effective against ticks, stay on marked trails, avoid high grass, and perform an all-over inspection of yourself and your loved ones—including your pets— after coming indoors. Carefully remove ticks with tweezers, properly dispose of them, and clean the affected area with soap and water or rubbing alcohol.

Risk of Lyme disease is low if an attached tick is removed within 36 hours, but if you develop a fever or a rash, call your doctor.

For more information, Trustees recommends the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: visit cdc.gov/ticks.

Expand Your Horizons Dear Members, As we prepare for a very exciting summer ahead, filled with adventurous camps, wondrous explorations, marvelous discoveries, and of course, delicious crops, I think about what an amazing opportunity summer brings for expanding our view of the world. Getting outside to experience all that nature has to offer at this time of year brings new energies, fresh perspectives, and a renewed sense of being. Whether digging deep in garden earth, paddling kayaks or SUPs into hidden coves, or tracking new mileage over bucolic paths, connecting with nature always rewards one’s initiative.

And what better place to experience the wonders of the world around us than our 117 (and likely 118 by the time you read this) very special Trustees places.

This summer many Trustees happenings will help your quest to broaden your outlook while enjoying the great out-ofdoors. Over two weeks in July we launch New Horizon, artist Doug Aitken’s extraordinary artwork that brings a one-of-akind reflective hot air balloon to seven reservations—from the Vineyard to the Berkshires—along with musical performances and stimulating conversations around the theme of ‘the future.’

The wonderful outdoor walking play Nature returns to The Old Manse in September for three weeks—this is a thoughtprovoking look at the lives of some of our nation’s greatest minds, who called Concord home, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The audience walks along with the actors as the drama unfolds.

Come hike with us: our Trustees Trekkers program takes off this summer—the perfect time to join our expert guides and explore our many kid-friendly trails with your whole family. Visit some hidden gardens: our popular Jamaica Plain Garden Tour is back for its second year. There are Free Fun Fridays, yoga classes, summer concerts, biergartens, farm dinners—so many options to find new experiences on our inspiring landscapes this season.

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Celebrating the upcoming integration of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum into The Trustees at deCordova’s Party for the Park gala in early May are: (l to r) Barbara Erickson, Trustees President & CEO, Gala Honorary Chair and former Trustees Board Chair David Croll, deCordova Board President Linda Hammett Ory, and deCordova Executive Director John Ravenal.

As always, thank you for your Membership support—you help us keep our special places open for all to enjoy. I hope to see you at one of our events or out on one of our properties very soon.

Warm Regards,

Barbara J. Erickson President & CEO

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OUT AND ABOUT

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Daffodil & Tulip Festival

The blooms were abundant at Naumkeag’s first annual Daffodil & Tulip Festival this spring.

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Home Sweet Home

Visitors came out in droves on a beautiful May day to check out eight Trustees historic houses at our annual open house event Home Sweet Home. Above: a garden tour at The Stevens-Coolidge Place. Below: smiles amid the lilacs after a tour of The Old Manse.

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Arbor Day of Service

We are grateful to the several hundred tree professionals in the MA Arborists Association who donated a day of their service to help Appleton Farms care for its trees and begin to restore its historic landscape.

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An “exploding” table helps demonstrate similarities of form and function in the design of Shaker and MidCentury Modern furniture at Fruitlands Museum’s newest exhibit.

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Party for the Park

A lovely May evening provided the backdrop for deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum’s annual Party for the Park gala. Above: Attendees from Charlesbank Capital Partners, including Joshua Klevens and wife Anna Sinaiko (at right). ©MICHAEL BLANCHARD

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ART & THE LANDSCAPE

REFLECTING THE LANDSCAPE DOUG AITKEN’S NEW HORIZON TAKES FLIGHT

BY MEREDITH CUTLER When summer finally arrives in Massachusetts, unfurling long days of seemingly endless possibilities, we disperse to our state’s sandy beaches, verdant hiking trails, bountiful gardens and farms to escape the mundane, to reconnect, and to expand our horizons. This summer, as our eyes turn to the skies above the Massachusetts landscape, we may very well see our own reflection looking back.

This July, a reflective hot air balloon and gondola conceived by artist Doug Aitken will make an unprecedented aerial “road trip”—launching from the sandy shores of Long Point Wildlife Refuge in Martha’s Vineyard and concluding at Field Farm in Williamstown ©AMI SIOUX two weeks later. During Doug Aitken scheduled stops at seven Trustees sites along the way, the flying studio will become a platform for social happenings featuring live music, food, and inspired dialogue—all centered around the theme of “the future.”

Titled New Horizon, this fourth installment of The Trustees’ Art & the Landscape initiative was once again curated for The Trustees by independent Bostonbased curator Pedro Alonzo. As the founding curator for the Trustees’ ambitious public art series, Alonzo most recently brought Alicja Kwade’s sculpture TunnelTeller to the former hedge maze at the Crane Estate this past

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The Crane Estate will host several Happenings during the New Horizon tour.

year (on view through March 2020). Previous installations came from artists Sam Durant at The Old Manse in 2016 and Jeppe Hein at World’s End in 2016-17.

Elevating the Art & the Landscape concept to a whole new level, New Horizon seeks to give all who encounter it a platform for creation and unique opportunities to connect around big ideas, whether in flight above the dynamic Massachusetts landscape or displayed against the backdrop of diverse Trustees sites, from the gardens of Naumkeag in Stockbridge to the fields of Holmes Reservation in Plymouth.

“When we began the Art & the Landscape initiative four years ago, we were seeking to create new traditions, and to cast the

familiar in new light—to enliven our iconic landscapes through the imaginations and wild perspectives of our artists,” says Barbara Erickson, Trustees President & CEO. “Aitken’s shiny metallic orb literally holds a mirror to our landscapes, reminding our visitors to stop, to look up, to look around, and to be filled with wonder.”

ENVIRONMENT AS MUSE A pioneer in the realm of multimedia art installations, Doug Aitken creates everevolving artwork that has been featured at exhibition venues and institutions around the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, SUMMER 2019

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DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, from a “balloon’s eye” view.

and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

His awards include the International Prize at the 1999 Venice Biennale for his video installation electric earth, the 2012 Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, the 2013 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award: Visual Arts, and the 2017 Frontier Art Prize.

While scouting new sites for Art & the Landscape, it’s not hard to understand why Aitken came to curator Alonzo’s mind as he contemplated the water, fields, and forest while perched on the dunes of Long Point between the Atlantic Ocean and the pond: “who can I invite to do something special here?”

Aitken’s recent artistic forays in the environment include Mirage, a full-scale ranch house with a mirrored exterior set in the Southern California desert, Underwater Pavilions installed off of the coast of Catalina Island for divers and sea life to explore, and Station to Station, an environmentally responsive digital light installation on the exterior of a cross-country train. The world is Aitken’s palette, his road trip never-ending— and almost no idea is too ambitious.

Inspired by the sheer number of possibilities scattered across the map of Trustees special places, Aitken’s initial impulse was “what if we had a mirror in the sky and it could float from place to place?” he recounts. “I wasn’t really thinking about a balloon—that was something I discovered through the process of looking at different possibilities. That led me to the subculture of balloonists, which is fascinating!”

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Aitken’s studio teamed up with an independent balloon fabricator out of New Mexico, one of the few people currently handmaking hot air balloons in the U.S. While his identity remains (at time of press) a carefully guarded “trade secret,” Aitken did reveal that the fabricator will also pilot the balloon as it makes its creative caravan through the Commonwealth.

“Both the balloon but more importantly, the gondola, are designed specifically for this project. It will be like a nomadic studio,” Aitken explains. “It can be used by an electronic musician, or a writer narrating the landscape, as well as for filming. Whatever is created or seen from this aerial view can be documented, streamed, and shared. I love the idea that the creativity will never stop!”

“Doug’s work looks at how technology and information impact humanity,” explains Alonzo. “In very beautiful, moving images he reminds us of who we are—that we’re humans, that we need to tell stories, that we need to interact in spite of this frenzy of information and technology that has changed our lives.”

MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ROAD TRIP New Horizon makes its maiden voyage across Martha’s Vineyard (July 12-14), then continues through Greater Boston (July 17-22), and on to the Berkshires (July 25-28). The itinerary includes ticketed events, public Family Days, and, true to the road trip mythology, plenty of room for the unexpected along the way. Whether

that manifests in random encounters with hikers in a forest clearing or out-of-the-blue performances over the urban grid remains to be revealed. “We’re looking for moments that are unexpected,” says Aitken. “For me that is a cornerstone of experiences that I remember as a person.”

Most scheduled tour stops will unfold with a tethered balloon flight at dawn, followed by public ground access to the balloon. In the early evenings, a series of invited community partners will lead talks on selected themes around the concept of our collective future as a species and society. (See the full schedule on the next page.)

Then, as the sun sets low and twilight envelopes these heady exchanges of ideas, the balloon will transform spectacularly into a generative light sculpture that responds to live musical performances, becoming a beacon around which the happenings will unfold.

Zach Tetreault, co-founder of the FORM Arcosanti music, wellness, and ideas festival in Arizona, was tapped by Aitken to help curate the performers for each event. The roster ranges from up and coming voices like chamber-folk cellist Kelsey Lu, multiinstrumentalist Mac DeMarco, and poet Aja Monet to musician, vocalist, and former lead singer of the Icelandic group Sigur Ros, Jónsi—each improvising live from the balloon during one of its flights.

“The focus is on using the gondola for artists who want to use it to create. For these musicians, they are in love with the idea of using it as kind of an improvisational platform,” says Aitken, adding, “I love this idea of discovery, finding someone new, finding a new voice…”

With New Horizon, “we want to create a series of moments that you’re a part of,” explains Aitken. “Moments that you own and you author, and maybe you meet a friend. The idea is to have a very distinctive journey—but also a concept bringing it all together, which is this idea of the future. This idea of where are we going as individuals, as a culture, the environment, and how can we open up a dialogue that’s shared.”

Meredith Cutler is a freelance arts writer and communications consultant based in Boston’s MetroWest.

Places, Performers, Partners Each place the balloon touches down becomes a Happening. All events are weather dependent, and are subject to change. The schedule below was current at press time—for any updates to the schedule, additional musicians and guest speakers, and for ticket availabilities, visit thetrustees.org/newhorizon.

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7-10AM—Sunrise Experience Gather for a limited sunrise viewing with New Horizon. Timed tethered flights and breakfast included.

6-10PM—HAPPENING: THE FUTURE OF CREATIVITY Conversations with architect Lord Norman Foster, and painter and filmmaker Sarah Morris | Music to be announced

Saturday, July 13 The FARM Institute Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard 5-9PM—Meals in the Meadow A farm-to-table dinner featuring New Horizon, to benefit The FARM Institute’s educational programs.

Sunday, July 14 Long Point Wildlife Refuge West Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard 7-10AM—Sunrise Experience Gather for a limited sunrise viewing with New Horizon. Timed tethered flights and breakfast included.

6-10PM—HAPPENING: THE FUTURE OF CLIMATE Conversations with Climatologist Christopher Neill, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Institute, and his colleague Spencer Glendon | Music by Helado Negro and Kelsey Lu

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Julianna Barwick Jónsi

6-10PM—HAPPENING Music by Mac DeMarco and Lonnie Holley

Saturday, July 20 deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln

Thursday, July 25

11AM-12:30PM & 1-2:30PM—Family Day 5-9PM—HAPPENING: THE FUTURE OF INFORMATION Conversations with Gideon Lichfield, Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review | Music by Julie Byrne, Julianna Barwick, and Mary Lattimore

11AM-12:30PM & 1-2:30PM—Family Day 6-10PM—HAPPENING: THE FUTURE OF CULTURE Conversations with artist Doug Aitken and curator Pedro Alonzo | Music by No Age and Destroyer

Field Farm, Williamstown

Sunday, July 21

Naumkeag, Stockbridge

Castle Hill on the Crane Estate, Ipswich 6-10PM—HAPPENING: THE FUTURE OF IDENTITY Conversations with World Frontiers Forum’s David A. Edwards and Katie Rae of MIT’s The Engine | Music to be announced.

Monday, July 22 Castle Hill on the Crane Estate, Ipswich 6-10PM—HAPPENING: FUTURE COLLABORATIONS Conversations with journalist and author Dean Kuipers and author and founder of Edible Gardens LA, Lauri Kranz Music by Jónsi and Julianna Barwick

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Saturday, July 27 4-7PM— Naumkeag Garden Party An inspired celebration of the gardens, history, and splendor of one of the Berkshires’ most celebration National Historic Landmarks, featuring New Horizon.

8-10PM— Naumkeag After Dark Dessert, live entertainment, and cash bar, featuring New Horizon. Music by Bang on a Can.

Sunday, July 28 Field Farm, Williamstown 7-10AM—Sunrise Experience Gather for a limited sunrise viewing with New Horizon. Timed tethered flights and breakfast included.

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PHOTO CREDITS: CHRISTINE LAI (MAC DEMARCO); ANDY SHEPPARD/REDFERNS (JÓNSI); FABIOLA CARRANZA (DESTROYER); YOSHIHIRO MAKINO (LAURI KRANZ); MILO GLADSTEIN (DEAN KUIPERS)

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Shifting Sands Volunteers become citizen scientists on Crane Beach

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t’s a cloudy April day in Ipswich and Crane Beach is almost deserted, save for a small group carrying two poles attached by a length of line. Starting at the top of the beach, they inchworm downward towards the waves, calling out numbers as they go. “Sometimes it’s almost like someone takes a giant trowel to a dune and spreads it back into the ocean,” says volunteer Ian Hayes, describing the changing profile of the beach. “Other times there’s a storm and it drives everything back up.”

Along with his wife Anne, Hayes has come to Crane as part of a dedicated volunteer group tracking the morphology of the beach as its shape fluctuates, influenced by tides, storms, and seasons. They use a profiling system called the Emery Method— a technique first introduced in 1961 which utilizes two graded poles and the Earth’s

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horizon as a reference point—to achieve accuracy. Measurements are taken in three-meter intervals once a month on the day of the lowest tide, starting from a fixed control point.

“It’s one of those things that takes longer to describe than it does to actually do it,” jokes Hayes, whose group has the process down to 20 minutes. “We start up by the dunes and go down to the water line. It’s amazing the changes you see between the times you go, but it’s also amazing how consistent the measurements tend to be along our transect.”

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Three of these “transects,” or segments, were divided amongst a dozen trained volunteers when the program began in August 2018.

The incoming data is allowing Trustees ecologists to map a vertical profile of the beach and establish a baseline of conditions, in preparation for an unsettled future.

“Climate change and sea level rise are looming,” says Jeff Denoncour, Trustees Coastal Ecologist. “This is our first step to begin to more closely monitor how the beach is changing. These systems are dynamic and there are many physical influences,

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TRANSECT #2 Sept 2018–May 2019 The data collected by beach profilers is sent monthly to Trustees ecologists who compile and graph the numbers to monitor the changes.

This illustration, using some of the data gathered by the volunteers, is an example of how the shape shifts over time. Currently three “transects,” or vertical stretches of beach, are measured each month.

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Ian and Anne Hayes gather their monthly beach profiling data on Crane Beach during low tide, a process that takes them from a marked point near the foot of one of the pedestrian boardwalks down to the water line.

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The unique engagement has also extended into the classroom, with an Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School class taking part in December during a unit on sandy habitats. “Ultimately this is going to become part of our curriculum that we will do [several] times a year,” says Environmental Technology Instructor Tony Wilbur, who worked for the MA Office of Coastal Zone Management before a desire to train the next generation of environmental leaders brought him to the classroom. “It’s making what they learn real.”

The exercise allowed the students to think like stewards: How would you best monitor and protect the health of this beloved resource, one of the few remaining

barrier beaches in New England where the near absence of human infrastructure has left the landscape wild and largely unimpeded?

This is the very question driving the profiling program, made possible by volunteers like Hayes, who come from a range of backgrounds but now share a common title: citizen scientists. “We’re taking people with very different day-to-day lives, some of whom haven’t been ecology volunteers in the past,” says Mahan. “This has ignited a scientific curiosity. To me, that’s what our opportunity is, turning properties into laboratories and involving volunteers in the measuring and monitoring behind our stewardship and ecology goals—well-trained, passionate people who now have a piece in the protection of these properties.”

Hayes adds, “If you love the beach and you want to help preserve it, here’s a great project. It’s love of the beach, it’s love of The Trustees, and it’s wanting to take action. It’s really interesting how far you can go with citizen science.”

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so we’re taking a look at the numbers and watching the trends.”

Together with ongoing horizontal tracking, done by walking the length of the beach along the start of the dunes and the mean high tide line with a GPS, the vertical profile will help ecologists quantify—and communicate—how the beach is changing on a regular basis. As Hayes points out, “unless you have a baseline, all you can do is guess.”

The beach profiling at Crane launched the summer after Woods Hole Group completed a climate vulnerability assessment of Trustees coastal properties, looking ahead 10 and 50 years. It flagged beaches as one of the most “at risk” natural areas, stating that Crane’s popular beach and plover habitat will likely see regular flooding by 2030.

Today, with nearly a year’s worth of profiling data from the three transects along Crane Beach, program coordinators hope to expand the program for a broader picture. It’s a unique volunteer opportunity.

“When we started thinking about how to engage volunteers in our coastal strategy, this became the first big ticket thing,” says

Marc Mahan, Trustees Acting Volunteer Program Manager.

“It’s something completely different than what volunteers have had the opportunity to do with The Trustees in the past. This is a long-term, ongoing engagement.”

Interested in becoming a coastal volunteer? Contact Marc Mahan at mmahan@thetrustees.org

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PUBLIC POLICY

Community Preservation Act Update

BY JENNIFER RYAN & ROB WARREN TRUSTEES STAFF

assachusetts has one of the most innovative and successful state and local government partnerships in the country: the Community Preservation Act (CPA). Signed into law in 2000, CPA is a smart growth tool that helps communities preserve open space, restore historic sites, build affordable housing, and develop outdoor recreation. CPA is adopted at the local level and funded by a property tax surcharge that is matched with state Community Preservation Trust funds, and all projects are developed and decided upon by the community.

CPA has raised over $2.1 billion, with a “b,” in public funds and has helped protect 30,000 acres and counting of open space, including parks, wildlife habitat, and farms; funded thousands of trail and playground projects; built community gardens and helped gardeners put in wells and water systems; supported beach dune restoration, and much more.

You may know a lot about CPA already, especially if you live in one of the 175 CPA communities. Or, you may just be reading about it now and are thinking “can I help bring CPA to my community?”

The Trustees has long been an advocate for CPA: sitting on the Community Preservation Coalition Steering Committee, helping the program evolve to meet rural and suburban needs as well as those of the cities, and supporting local adoption efforts. We also work to ensure that the state matching funds are strong. As this issue of Special Places goes to press, the Massachusetts legislature is considering provisions that would bring about much needed adjustments to the Community Preservation Trust, ensuring that the Commonwealth holds up its side of the program. Look for updates in our Where Wonder Happens e-newsletter, social media, or by visiting savecpa.org.

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CPA funding made possible the historical recreation of the gondola poles around the Afternoon Garden at Naumkeag in Stockbridge. Conservation of the Tall Case Clock at The Old Manse (below) was also made possible by CPA funds, one of a variety of different grants that helped fund several other projects in the same room. Interestingly, when the clock was removed for conservation, a section of wall was exposed for the first time in more than a century. Behind the clock, conservators identified a section of untouched painted woodwork, which is evolving our understanding of the interiors at The Old Manse and may be assessed further through additional grant support.

In addition to helping communities restore town halls, fix ballfields and playgrounds, and protect open space; CPA is an important tool for nonprofits as well.

It has supported our work to restore the interior of The Old Manse and bring back to life the tall case clock that has been in the sitting room since before the Revolutionary War, funded the reproduction of the Venetian Gondola Poles in Naumkeag’s Afternoon Garden, provided funds to site and restore hiking trails, and has helped make several land conservation projects a reality. At Peaked Mountain in Monson, The Trustees recently partnered with the town in the acquisition of 94 acres using CPA funding and state grants, increasing the protected area and trail network at this scenic reservation.

And The Trustees’ acquisition of Dunes’ Edge Campground in Provincetown, a vital coastal property, in 2013, had significant support from the town, including key CPA funds.

The Community Preservation Act is great way to tell the story of how public policy supports land conservation. Land conservation projects are often complex, and land is not cheap in Massachusetts. It takes state and local support, private fundraising,

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and tax planning to bring about successful land conservation projects. Public funding all flows from public work—such as that which went into the drafting and passage of CPA and now, into its implementation.

The Trustees is proud to contribute a leadership role in that work, and is dedicated to the continued success of this important community program.

For more, visit communitypreservation.org, and to find out more about The Trustees’ advocacy and public policy work, visit thetrustees.org/advocacy.

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HAPPENING Take it all in this summer!

Summer’s here at last—the time to get out and take in all that we have to offer on Trustees reservations across Massachusetts. And there is so much to do! Whatever your favorite outdoor activities might be, they’re happening at our special places. We’ve got loads of family fun planned—like camp-outs, hikes, plays and concerts, farm fests, and more—as well as events for individuals, couples, and groups. You name it! ind fellow trail enthusiasts in our Hike Trustees program (visit hiketrustees.org), experience the work of artists as they respond to the landscape at our museums and historic houses, tour the sandy expanses of Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard, marvel at the everchanging spectacles in our public gardens, picnic in the shade of majestic trees, or engage your mind and body in one of our many yoga programs. You can—and should!—take it all in this summer. Here’s a glimpse at some of the events and programs going on at Trustees reservations across the state. For the full list, check out our Things To Do calendar arriving separately, or visit thetrustees.org/things-to-do. Now get out!

FAMILY “TREKS” Pack the kids and join us as we hit the trails in one (or more!) outings in our new family hiking series Trustees Trekkers.

There are many to choose from: in July alone, we’ll follow family-friendly trails on guided hikes through Doane’s Falls in

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You are never too young to try hiking.

Royalston (Saturday, July 6), Notchview in Windsor (Saturday, July 13), Ward Reservation in Andover & North Andover (Wednesday, July 17), Fruitlands Museum in Harvard (Sunday, July 28), or every Sunday at Rocky Woods in Medfield! Keep an eye

out for more opportunities throughout the summer, at even more reservations around the state.

YOGA WITH A VIEW Haven’t tried yoga outside yet? Whether practicing mindfulness on the farm, in the gardens, overlooking the glorious Berkshire hills or the vast expanse of Vineyard sands, we’ve got a new yoga experience for you.

Some of our many options include Yoga in the Gardens at The Stevens-Coolidge Place in North Andover (Fridays through September), Beach Yoga at Long Point Wildlife Refuge in West Tisbury (Mondays through August), Yoga at The Old Manse in Concord (Tuesdays and Thursdays through the summer), Mindfulness on the Farm at Powisset Farm in Dover (Thursdays), or Mindfulness & Meditation in the Garden at Naumkeag in Stockbridge (Fridays). Namaste!

FREE FUN FRIDAYS Thanks to our friends at the Highland Street Foundation, Free Fun Fridays are back again this summer.

Bring the kids and come check out three of our inspiring places for FREE on these summer Fridays: The Old Manse in Concord (July 5), Naumkeag in Stockbridge (August 2), and Fruitlands Museum in Harvard (August 16).

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THINGS TO DO

Summer is the time when Trustees reservations are chock full of activities, for all interests and all ages. We’ve got beaches and historic houses, farms and public gardens, wildlife refuges, museums, campgrounds—all offering programs and events for your enjoyment. Here’s a glimpse at

just a few

of the hundreds of things to do at our special places across the state this season. For the full list, look for your Trustees Things To Do calendar arriving separately, or visit thetrustees.org/things-to-do. Head out and take it all in!

Naumkeag at Night

Thursdays, through Sep 12 5-8PM Naumkeag, Stockbridge Member $5; Nonmember $10

Join us for the perfect end to a Berkshire summer day with live music ranging from American Roots to Bluegrass to Jazz.

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Free Fun Fridays

Friday, Jul 5 | 10AM-5PM The Old Manse, Concord Friday, Aug 2 | 10AM-4PM Naumkeag, Stockbridge Friday, Aug 16 | 10AM-4PM Fruitlands Museum, Harvard

Open for FREE on these summer Fridays thanks to our friends, Highland Street Foundation.

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Trustees Trekkers

Guided family hikes at the following properties: Rocky Woods • Tully Lake Campground • Notchview • Ward Reservation • Fruitlands Museum • Crane Estate • Norris Reservation • Farandnear Member Family $12; Nonmember Family $20 For dates and times, visit thetrustees.org/things-to-do

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REGISTER TODAY! thetrustees.org/things-to-do Use your member code (above your name on your member card) to qualify for member discounts.

Program details subject to change. For up-to-date event information, or to search for events in your area, at a specific property, by type or by date, click on Things To Do at thetrustees.org.

Camp Outs

Saturday, Jul 13 | 7PM Sat-10AM Sun Appleton Farms, Hamilton & Ipswich Saturday, Jul 20 | 3PM Sat-10AM Sun World’s End, Hingham For prices, visit thetrustees.org/things-to-do Join us for an adventurous night out under the stars. © TRUSTEES

Jamaica Plain Garden Tour

Saturday, Jul 20 | 9AM-2PM Starts at J.P. Licks, Jamaica Plain Member $20; Nonmember $25 (in advance) Member $24; Nonmember $30 (day of)

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Shakespeare in the Woods, on the Farm, and in the Park

Saturdays & Sundays, Jul 20-Aug 4 | 5-7:30PM Rocky Woods • Powisset Farm • Francis William Bird Park Member & Nonmember FREE The Gazebo Players present the bard’s classic comedy All’s Well That Ends Well. © K. GLASS

Plymouth Philharmonic at World’s End Saturday, Aug 24 | 7-9PM World’s End, Hingham Member $20; Nonmember $25

Come hear orchestral classics in a most beautiful setting.

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Fruitlands 9th Annual Craft Festival

Saturday & Sunday, Sep 21 & 22 | 10AM-4:30PM Fruitlands Museum, Harvard Member Adult $5; Nonmember Adult $10; Children FREE A two-day outdoor show featuring the work of 40 juried artists, plus food and live music. © W. WAUGAMAN

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The Concord Band delights music lovers at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard’s Summer Concert Series, one of many outdoor performance experiences available this summer at our reservations that also include Castle Hill and World’s End. Below, eager pie-eating contestants at one of the Fall Festivals on our farms.

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SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE Enjoy classic Shakespeare in a novel setting! The bard’s great comedy All’s Well That Ends Well will be brought to life by the glorious Gazebo Players of Medfield—in the woods, on the farm, and in the park: Rocky Woods in Medfield, Powisset Farm in Dover, and Francis William Bird Park in Walpole to be exact. Saturdays & Sundays from late July to early August. See our Things To Do calendar for specific dates and times. “The play’s the thing” this summer!

MUSIC GALORE Join us for the beloved tradition of music under the summer sky. Bring a picnic supper, explore the grounds, dance on the lawn, and enjoy great music all at the same time. Castle Hill on the Crane Estate in Ipswich continues its wonderful Thursday Evening Picnic Concert series, Thursdays through August on the 16

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Grand Allée. Take in spectacular views of Mt. Wachusett all the way to Mt. Monadnock at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard’s popular Summer Concert Series, Thursdays through August 8. Or try an outdoor classic—the Plymouth Philharmonic presents classical favorites (including Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons!) at World’s End in Hingham, Saturday, August 24. Strike up the band!

FEASTS FOR THE FALL Not that we want to start thinking beyond summer just yet, but what’s better than a fall feast on the farm? We’ve got scrumptious Fall Festivals at our working farms and beyond.

Celebrate the end of the growing season at Appleton Farms in Hamilton & Ipswich or Chestnut Hill Farm in Southborough on Sunday, September 15; Weir River Farm in Hingham on Saturday, September 21; Bryant Homestead in Cummington on the weekend of September 21 & 22; The Stevens-Coolidge Place in North Andover on Saturday, September 28; and Powisset Farm in Dover on Sunday, October 6.

These are just a few of the hundreds of programs and events happening at Trustees reservations across the state this summer. Be sure to check out our Things To Do calendar, arriving separately in your mailbox, or at thetrustees.org/things-to-do. And then head out and take it all in!

PROFILE IN CONSERVATION

Albert M. Creighton Jr. (1918-2018)

Land Protection Pioneer

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CREIGHTON FAMILY

“Al Creighton made a tremendous mark on so many New England communities— he has preserved the landscape in countless ways for generations to come.”

Barbara Erickson TRUSTEES PRESIDENT & CEO

Within The Trustees of Reservations, Albert Creighton was often called “the spirit of land conservation”—a tireless advocate for New England’s land protection movement who possessed a clear vision of what The Trustees could do and where it should act. During a half-century relationship with this organization, Mr. Creighton demonstrated a forwardthinking commitment to open space, championing conservation within urban centers and The Trustees’ expansion into new regions including the South Coast and Pioneer Valley.

And even after his passing last autumn at age 100, his legacy resonates around the region.

“Al Creighton made a tremendous mark on so many New England communities,” says Barbara Erickson, The Trustees’ President & CEO. “He has preserved the landscape in countless ways for generations to come.”

A colorful childhood kindled Mr. Creighton’s passion for adventure and the outdoors.

While growing up in and around Boston, he regularly walked his pet lion, Mikey, down Commonwealth Avenue. During summers in Swampscott, a young Albert sold lobsters he caught to his neighbor, President Calvin Coolidge, whose Secret Service detail was befuddled by the pet lion next door. He lived off the land in British Columbia and once piloted a container ship through the Panama Canal. But those larger-than-life experiences contrasted his quiet nature—his chosen approach to furthering The Trustees’ land protection mission.

The long list of roles Mr. Creighton held within The Trustees speaks to his devotion.

He became an active member of our governance in 1976 and a member of the Board of Directors soon thereafter, serving as Board President from 1995 to 1998. He served two terms on the Standing Committee—one as President—as well as both the Land Conservation and Development Committees, and he was Chairman of the Chairman’s Council. Along the way, he earned well-deserved honors: he received a Volunteer Commendation in 1987, he was elected Life Trustee in 1990, and in 2000 was awarded the organization’s highest honor, the Charles Eliot Award, for his leadership in preserving the spirit and mission of The Trustees founder.

Beyond his endeavors with The Trustees, Albert Creighton helped advance the protection of open space in many New England communities. In Massachusetts, he was among the first board members of the Essex County Greenbelt Association, he helped create the Manchester Conservation Trust (now the Manchester-Essex Conservation Trust), and served as Trustee of the Massachusetts Farm and Conservation Lands Trust.

In Maine—Mr. Creighton’s cherished retreat—he was a longtime board member of the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, and in 1986 helped found the Vinalhaven Land Trust, serving as its president from 1988 to 1990. Through the pioneering work of this organization, more than 1,000 acres have been preserved in this island community in Penobscot Bay. For more than 125 years, the words of Trustees Founder Charles Eliot have inspired this organization to be bold, to serve the public, to save special places which could be lost forever, and most of all, to engage the people—the “trustees” of so many of the Commonwealth’s public open spaces. Few individuals have embodied these ideals more than Albert Creighton. For his life and work, The Trustees is forever grateful.

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a walking play

Nature Returns to The Old Manse TigerLion Arts’ critically-acclaimed outdoor walking play Nature is back by popular demand.

Explore humankind’s relationship to nature through the eyes of two of America’s greatest environmental voices and friends, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Nature is an immersive and family-friendly telling of Emerson, Thoreau, and their mutual love of the natural world. The Old Manse in Concord— where Emerson lived while writing his famous essay “Nature”—provides the most fitting location for this nationwide touring production.

Limited Run 17 performances over three weeks, beginning Friday, September 13: Thursdays Sep 19 & 26 | 5:30PM Fridays Sep 13, 20 & 27 | 5:30PM Saturday Sep 14 | 1PM & 5PM

Nature is a lively, entertaining, yet deeply thought provoking opportunity to experience a live performance in a beautiful and historic outdoor setting. Audience members follow the actors as the family-friendly play’s scenes unfold in the grassy meadows and native trees around The Old Manse. Each 90-minute performance includes pre-show period bagpiping and choral music to entertain young and old alike. Pack a light picnic, wear comfy clothes, and come experience this magical theater event.

Saturdays Sep 21 & 28 | 1PM & 7:30PM* Sundays Sep 15, 22 & 29 | 1PM & 5PM

*Special Nature By Night performances Members will have an exclusive opportunity to purchase tickets for two weeks beginning Thursday, August 1.

Schedule subject to change.

For tickets and more information, visit thetrustees.org/natureplay.

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BIERGARTENS ARE BACK

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Starting in August, join us at one or more of these upcoming biergarten appearances:

Castle Hill on the Crane Estate, Ipswich Sunday, Aug 11 | 2-7PM

Francis William Bird Park, Walpole Saturday, Aug 17 | 2-7PM Sunday, Aug 18 | 1-6PM

The Stevens-Coolidge Place, North Andover Thursday & Friday, Sep 12 & 13 | 4-9PM Sunday, Sep 15 | 12Noon-6PM

Notch Brewery’s popular traveling tap truck returns this summer and fall.

What’s better than having a bite to eat, playing games, and enjoying good company in the great outdoors… adding a cold beer, of course, to make it a perfect summer evening.

In 2018, The Trustees and Salem-based craft brewery Notch Brewing launched a partnership to bring a series of outdoor biergarten experiences to a variety of Trustees parks, farms, and cultural sites. The events were so popular that we’re bringing them ©C. MARSHALL back and visiting more properties this year.

Each biergarten presents family-friendly activities, food, and refreshments, and highlights each location’s unique character, history, and natural wonders. The weekends feature locally crafted session (low alcohol) beers by Notch—the first brewing company in the U.S. to focus exclusively on session beer. Notch Brewery is community-focused and supports the local food movement by sourcing its barley and malt from Hadley, MA. In July, Notch will be making appearances at New Horizon events (see page 9.)

Notch Oktoberfest at The Stevens-Coolidge Pace, North Andover Saturday, Sep 14 | 12Noon-7PM Member Adult $12; Nonmember Adult $20; Children FREE

Minton Stable Community Garden, Jamaica Plain Friday, Sep 20 | 5-9PM Saturday, Sep 21 | 2-7PM

Castle Hill on the Crane Estate, Ipswich Sunday, Sep 29 | 2-7PM

Appleton Farms, Hamilton & Ipswich Friday, Oct 4 | 5-9PM Saturday & Sunday, Oct 5 & 6 | 5-9PM

Weir River Farm, Hingham Saturday & Sunday, Oct 12 & 13 | 2-7PM Schedule subject to change.

For specific times and the latest schedule updates, visit thetrustees.org/notch

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Get Out. Camp Out. It’s never been easier to spend a night under the stars

BY MATT HEID

Skies above, birdsong below, trails and adventure all around.

A night in the woods, warm and snug in your tent, is a deeper entry into the wonders of the outdoors. If you’ve never gone camping— or haven’t in a while—there’s no better time than now to get started. Here are three simple steps to get you going.

STEP 1: FIND A GREAT DESTINATION

Massachusetts is blessed with dozens of campgrounds and hundreds of campsites, many of them less than a two-hour drive from wherever you may be in the state. You can find them in 29 state parks across the Commonwealth, on sites like HipCamp—the Airbnb of campsites—and on two beckoning properties managed by The Trustees: Tully Lake and Dunes’ Edge campgrounds.

What makes a great camping destination? In many ways, it’s up to you.

Take your pick: Trails. Paddling. Showers.

Biking. Quiet. Beaches. Fishing. Good for kids. You can find all these features in various combinations throughout the state. When it comes to the Trustees’ campground, Tully Lake offers quiet, secluded walk-in sites by the shores of its namesake lake in north-central Massachusetts, plus showers, boat rentals, fishing clinics, and a range of adjoining kidfriendly trails.

There’s one thing it doesn’t have, however: robust cell phone coverage. “For me, camping is all about just getting out in nature, finding more simplicity of life, and getting away from technology,” notes Jessica Schanz, 20

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Tully Lake campground manager. “Having less cell service means you get more of that connection with everybody around you.”

At the other end of the state, just outside of Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod, Dunes’ Edge Campground awaits. “The fun thing about coming to Provincetown and camping is that it’s a simplified existence,” reflects campground manager David Finch.

“There’s nothing complicated about it, there’s nothing to think about.” Plus, of course, Dunes’ Edge is a convenient location for biking, beaching, and easily accessing all the happenings in Provincetown.

STEP 2: GEAR UP

There are only three things you absolutely need for a warm, dry, and comfortable night: a tent, sleeping bag, and sleeping pad. If you don’t have these key items, rent them at outdoor shops like REI, borrow them from friends or family, or invest in them yourself.

For the tent, you ideally want a full-length rainfly—the extra layer of fabric you put over the tent—that extends down to the ground, rather than just a small patch over the top, which is worthless for staying dry in the rain. More importantly, if you borrow a tent,

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Tully Lake Campground in Royalston is nearby to three Trustees waterfall properties: Doane’s Falls, Jacobs Hill (Spirit Falls,) and Royalston Falls.

double-check that you have both the tent body and the poles that go with it!

“People that have never camped before, they ask their sister, brother, friends for a tent, put it in the car, and by the time they get here they realize they don’t have the poles. That happens a lot,” chuckles Finch.

“A real lot.”

Summer nights in Massachusetts tend to be warm and mild. You don’t need a heavy-duty extra warm sleeping bag for a comfortable night’s sleep—anything from an inexpensive rectangular bag to a high-end ultralight down bag will get you through the night. For the pad, beware inexpensive inflatable pads that contain only air; these can easily leak and send you sinking into a poor night’s sleep.

Tent, sleeping bag, and pad in hand, you’ll make it snug through the night, but it’s always wise to bring some other key gear as well, including a light (flashlights work, headlamps are better; check the batteries before you go); cooking and eating gear, including a stove; bug repellent; sunscreen; and—key to a good sleep—some sort of pillow for your head at night.

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STEP 3: HAVE FUN AND RELAX

Kick back in your collapsible folding chair (another highly recommended camping item) and contemplate your options. If you’re at Tully Lake, paddling, fishing, hiking, and even disc golf are on the table, including the short jaunt to rushing Doane’s Falls, located less than a mile from the campground. At Dunes’ Edge, a bicycle is your two-wheeled passport to Provincetown, bike paths, and the beaches of northern Cape Cod National Seashore.

More importantly, though, enjoy the connection with nature that camping offers.

Listen for birdsong in the morning, the calls of owls at night, and the quiet moments that await you beneath the moon and stars.

“It’s a real way to reconnect with nature and the outdoors and get out into the dark so you can see the sky,” encourages Thomas Por, The Trustees’ Director for Northwest properties. “One thing I know,” adds Schanz, “is that a lot of people that come here just want to step away from everything busy in life and just relax.”

Your moment under the stars awaits.

Now’s the time to seize the opportunity, plan an adventure, and expand your outdoor horizons. Camp on!

Matt Heid is a freelance writer whose work appears regularly in AMC Outdoors. He is also the author of AMC’s Best Backpacking in New England.

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Campsites at Tully Lake (top) are covered in soft pine needles, but lakefront sites are always the most popular. At Dunes’ Edge Campground (above), cars can pull right up to the campsites and some have hook-ups for motorhomes. At left, Tully Lake Ranger Kim shows off her new helpful signage for hikers.

Camp with The Trustees Dunes’ Edge Campground, Provincetown

85 premium wooded sites for tents, pop ups, and vans.

15 sites with electric and water hook-ups for motorhomes.

Modern bathrooms, camp store, laundry facilities.

Reservations: thetrustees.org/dunesedge

Tully Lake Campground, Royalston

36 Tent-only campsites, inland and waterfront.

Centrally located bathhouse.

Kayak, canoe, SUP, fishing gear rentals.

Reservations: thetrustees.org/tully

Rocky Woods, Medfield

9 sites (2 tents each), plus field camping.

Improved facilities and 5 additional sites coming soon. (see News from Across the State, pg. 2)

Camping clinics and family campouts.

Contact 508.785.0339 for more information.

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Members of the North Shore Garden Club came out to Long Hill to help run the annual plant sale in May. Among those volunteering for the sale were long-time members Dot Batchelder (seated, 2nd from left) and Mary Ann Streeter (seated, middle) who knew and worked with Marjorie Russell Sedgwick. Jane “Didi” Blau is on Mary Ann’s right.

Cultivating History More than 20 years after first visiting Long Hill for a gardening lecture, Jane “Didi” Blau still grows enchanted when talking about what grows from the Beverly property’s landscape: the weeping hemlock; the blooming bells of yellow corylopsis, a variety of witch hazel; a peony so special her heart skips a beat when she sees it. Blau, a Manchester native and 22

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North Shore Garden Club: Nurturing Long Hill’s spectacular setting for 40 years

member of the 104-year-old North Shore Garden Club, spends close to 40 hours a year volunteering at Long Hill—pruning, weeding, planting, and deadheading gardens that tread a line between manicured and wild. “You come across little treasures as you wander,” she says. “The more I’ve worked there, the more treasures I recognize.”

The gardens at Long Hill might look like magic untouched by human hands, but that beauty owes to hard work carried out by some of The Trustees’ most enduring volunteers.

Season after season since 1979, the North Shore Garden Club (NSGC) has nurtured the landscape, polishing a horticultural crown jewel while carrying on the legacy of two of

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The estate house is the centerpiece of Long Hill, the 114-acre hillside site in Beverly. Garden ‘rooms’ around the house contain unique architectural elements linked by a winding path system and feature rare and unusual plant specimens. On the right, Betsy Madsen shows off trays of forget-me-nots, a popular selection at Long Hill’s annual plant sale.

the garden club’s brightest minds. “There’s a mutual mission: both organizations care deeply about Long Hill, and want to build a great plant collection to present in a beautiful way,” says Cindy Brockway, The Trustees’ Program Director for Cultural Resources.

Mabel Cabot Sedgwick, the horticulturist author of The Garden Month by Month and wife of Atlantic Monthly editor Ellery Sedgwick, first conjured the gardens of Long Hill after the couple began occupying the property in 1917, shaping a series of outdoor “rooms” and punctuating 114 acres with iconic elements like a hilltop copper beech and a red pagoda. After Mabel’s death in 1937, Ellery married Marjorie Russell, another accomplished gardener who furthered the property’s stumbled-upon vision.

Both Sedgwick women were active members of the North Shore Garden Club; Marjorie was president twice. In 1979, after meetings in which Marjorie offered the garden club’s expertise to The Trustees, she passed away; her children subsequently donated Long Hill to The Trustees, and volunteers transformed the private property into a public garden. The partnership evolved: in exchange for assisting The Trustees, the NSGC gained access to storage and meeting space, Long Hill’s horticultural library (which they helped expand greatly) and other benefits.

In summer, Long Hill blooms with Shasta daisies, clematis, roses, beebalms, water lilies, fairy candles, and coneflowers, among

A beautiful day for a plant sale brings out the smiles for North Shore Garden Club members Cindy Morton and Ellie Cabot.

others. “We’ve tried to keep the garden rooms basically the same as they were when [Marjorie] was around, except the pieces in the rooms—the plantings themselves—can change,” says Dan Bouchard, The Trustees’ Senior Horticulturist at Long Hill. Volunteers are essential for Bouchard, the property’s lone full-time staff gardener, and the NSGC is uniquely attuned to helping the property flourish. “Everything that’s done there is estate garden quality—the highest professional level of skill,” says Marc Mahan, The Trustees’ Acting Volunteer Program Manager. “It’s so beautiful and so well maintained, and there’s just one constant: Dan and his volunteers, the preservation actors in this play.”

While the North Shore Garden Club takes on other projects, Long Hill is the showcase for the club’s efforts—and a horticultural classroom where members grow their skills. Before becoming an official part of the organization, each provisional

NSGC member must spend 36 hours at Long Hill, learning about landscape design, pruning, transplanting, and invasive removal under Bouchard’s tutelage. That education dovetails with Long Hill’s low-impact take on gardening: no by-the-cubic-yard mulching, little supplemental irrigation, leave the “good” weeds alone. Meanwhile, Bouchard is a go-to resource for members’ garden queries, like how to trim an Andromeda or how to make green weedkiller from botanical vinegar and soap. “It’s like a free horticulture seminar on what we should be doing in our own gardens that week,” says Blau, a member of the NSGC since 2001 and a past president.

Beyond clean-ups and regular maintenance, the NSGC has been key to a series of undertakings on the property, like restorations of the Little Garden and improvements to the approach leading to the copper beech tree. Throughout the growing season, the NSGC leads garden walks. In the spring, the club devotes hundreds of hours to helping Long Hill’s spring plant sale, a major fundraiser. “That help is so significant—I couldn’t run the plant sale without the club’s support,” Bouchard says.

Forty years on, the North Shore Garden Club remains as devoted to Long Hill as ever.

“It has become such an important part of our garden club’s identity,” Blau says, practically rushing out the door to visit the property.

“For those of us who volunteer there, it’s hard to spend a season without falling in love.”

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- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Merlin’s Song

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Explore these extraordinary houses and buildings, that span more than three centuries in the history of architectural design.

Fruitlands Museum

Harvard

SHAKER OFFICE BUILDING:

Mountain Meadow Preserve

Royalston Falls

Bear Swamp

Bryant Homestead

houses capture the views of the scenery and bring the outside in.

Stockbridge

HOUSE: Post-Medieval, Georgian;

ca. 1742 In the mid-1730s, the Mohicans living in western Massachusetts gave permission for John Sergeant, a young minister, to live among them. When Sergeant married Abigail Williams, the couple built this two and a half-story Georgianstyle house. The doorway, probably a later addition, is its most compelling feature—the rare broken-scroll pediment design resembles the work of Samuel Partridge, a joiner (woodworker) based in Hatfield, Massachusetts. Only about two dozen doorways of this type survive, and this is one of the finest examples.

Originally located on Prospect Hill in Stockbridge, The Mission House was carefully disassembled and moved to its present location on Main Street

by Mabel Choate (then owner of nearby Naumkeag, now also a Trustees property), between 1926 and 1930.

Naumkeag

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Glendale Falls

Petticoat Hill

Goose Pond

Mount Warner

Quabbin Reservoir

Dinosaur Footprints

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Land of Providence

Springfield

Dry Hill Questing

Peaked Mountain

Bartholomew’s Cobble

DON’T MISS: The porte-cochère (covered entry) with its

Elliott Laurel North Common Meadow

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Powisset Farm

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PIG PALACE: Modern; 1947 The piggery at Powisset Farm was designed by Boston architect Eleanor Raymond— workers called it the “Pig Palace” because it was so luxurious. Raymond was known for her use of experimental and cost-effective building materials like plywood and masonite. She was influenced by the clean lines and modern functionality used by architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius. Amelia Peabody, the owner of Powisset Farm, was a distinguished sculptor, and first commissioned Raymond to design a modern, lightfilled studio for her home at nearby Mill Farm in 1933.

She ultimately went on to commission 16 buildings by

PHOTO CREDITS: THE FOLLY: JUMPING ROCKS; NAUMKEAG: GROSS & DALEY PHOTOGRAPHY; THE STEVENS-COOLIDGE PLACE: D. POWELL; LONG HILL: R. CHEEK; CASTLE HILL: JUMPING ROCKS; POWISSET FARM: POWISSET FARM COLLECTION, THE TRUSTEES; ALL OTHERS: TRUSTEES.

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Bear’s Den

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Norman; 1886 In 1885, lawyer and diplomat Joseph Choate hired architects McKim, Mead & White to design his family retreat in the Berkshires.

Constructed during the early years of their practice, the firm went on to design over 300 private homes and important civic buildings including the Boston Public Library, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the Brooklyn Museum. Visitors would have approached Naumkeag by carriage, first encountering the formal portecochère (covered entry) and rounded turrets of the east façade. Lead architect Stanford White modeled it after the medieval castles and churches of England and northern France. The stone foundation with bricks above mimics a Norman French manor house built over many decades. By contrast, the back of the house (the west façade) is clad in informal wooden shingles that blend into the hillside, and features covered porches designed for enjoying the view.

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The Mission House

Doane’s Falls Tully Lake Campground

Bullitt Reservation

Notchview

DON’T MISS: The way that the large picture windows of both

Jacobs Hill

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Field Farm

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Field Farm features two Mid-Century Modern buildings built for art collectors Lawrence and Eleanor Bloedel. The main residence, now the Guest House at Field Farm, was inspired by the Bauhaus school of modern design. Architect Edwin Goodell placed an emphasis on open rooms filled with natural light—designing the house to be functional and streamlined “from the inside out,” focused on its stunning views of Mount Greylock. Nearby, next to a pond, lies “The Folly,” a sculptural structure designed by Ulrich Franzen. The name comes from 18th-century English garden structures, but the design is truly modern. Cedar shingles encase a central column surrounded by undulating pinwheel-like forms that together once hosted the Bloedels’ ice skating parties.

Franzen wanted occupants to be “part of nature but also to be sheltered from it.” The bedrooms and kitchen feature overhanging “eyebrow” windows, reminiscent of a Victorian house or airplane cockpit. Inside, built-in furniture lit from below makes efficient use of the limited space.

Shaker; 1794 The Shaker Museum at Fruitlands was originally constructed as an office in the Harvard Shaker Village. Here, Shaker Brothers and Sisters would have conducted business transactions with what Shakers termed “The World.” But they soon outgrew this small structure, and in ca. 1840 built a new six-story building to replace it. By the early 20th century, the community was in decline and the remaining members sold the first office building to Clara Endicott Sears. Sears moved it to its current site to house her collection of Shaker objects and opened it to the public in 1922. The architecture is indicative of the Shaker philosophy of simplicity of form, with its symmetrical design and lack of ornament.

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GUEST HOUSE: Modern; 1949 THE FOLLY: Modern; 1966

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Williamstown

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Field Farm

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The Old Manse

HOUSE: Georgian, with later Victorian additions; 1770 The Old Manse was built for the Reverend William Emerson, minister of the Church of Concord, and his family. The style of the house, with its symmetrical series of eight windows surrounding a central front door, was the most common type of house in this period in New England. Named the “Georgian Style,” it came to the American colonies from England. Local builders utilized classical symmetry and decoration inspired by the Italian Renaissance and Greek and Roman antiquity.

The decorative pediment over the door, for example, echoes the shape of an ancient temple roof.

Other distinctive features of this house include six-over-six sash windows and a Dutch-inspired gambrel roof. In the 19th century, the family added a central dormer window in the attic and a bay window in the parlor which updated the house to meet Victorian tastes.

ESTATE HOUSE: Colonial Revival; began 1914

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Gov. Hutchinson’s Field RESERVATIONS IN THE CHARLES RIVER VALLEY

Bradley Estate

Pierce Reservation World’s End Weir River Farm Whitney and Thayer Woods Norris Reservation

Signal Hill Archives & Research Center Moose Hill Farm

Francis William Bird Park

Two Mile Farm Dunes’ Edge Campground

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Cormier Woods

The KITCHEN at Boston Public Market City Natives Boston Community Gardens and Parks

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East Over Reservation

East Over: Hales Brook and Sippican River Tract

Copicut Woods

Allen C. Haskell Public Gardens

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Raymond, the most revolutionary of which was the “sun house”—the sixth in a series of houses designed with MIT architects and engineers that relied exclusively on solar heat (1948).

DON’T MISS: The family’s initials incorporated into the exterior

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Holmes Reservation

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Misery Islands

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Revival; 1924 The estate house at Long Hill was designed by the Boston firm of Richardson, Barott, and Richardson as a summer home for the family of Ellery Sedgwick, then editor of Atlantic Monthly, and Mabel Cabot Sedgwick, a horticulturist. The mansion incorporates earlier materials into its design, a popular trend at the time it was built—the brick exterior was salvaged from an abandoned mill in Ipswich and the interiors boast elegant woodwork and mantelpieces from the Isaac Ball House in Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1812. The overall design was inspired by Charleston’s Federal-style houses (ca. 1780-1830). Its two-story open porch and series of balconies are uncommon in New England but made for a comfortable summer home.

Crowninshield Island

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Mount Ann Park Ravenswood Park Coolidge Reservation Agassiz Rock

Moraine Farm

Malcolm Preserve

Fruitlands Museum

Long Hill

Beverly

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Pine and Hemlock Knoll

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Redemption Rock

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Doyle Community Park Farandnear

Helen Stevens Coolidge and husband John Gardner Coolidge converted Helen’s ancestral farm into a country estate with the design talents of noted preservation architect Joseph Everett Chandler. Chandler’s preservation work includes the Paul Revere House and Old State House in Boston and Salem’s House of Seven Gables. The StevensCoolidge Place was intended to be a fashionable update, influenced by a nostalgic interest in early American architecture and furniture design known as the Colonial Revival. In the rear of the house, he added a bow-front bay window to bring in light and views of the garden, and added dormers and a brick facade. He doubled the depth of the wing (a former tavern) to add a large dining room for entertaining and servants’ quarters, and added exterior decoration.

Lastly, he had the house painted white—a color seldom seen in the American colonies.

Old Town Hill Greenwood Farm Hamlin Reservation Stavros Reservation THE CRANE ESTATE Castle Hill Crane Beach Crane Wildlife Refuge Halibut Point

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Westport Town Farm

Slocum’s River Reserve

Menemsha Hills

Nantucket Sound Cape Poge Wildlife Refuge

Ipswich

GREAT HOUSE: English Manor

House; 1928 In 1924, architect David Adler began Mytoi planning with Mr. & Mrs. Richard Wasque Long Point Teller Crane Jr. a new 59-room Norton Point Wildlife Refuge Beach English-inspired manor house as the The FARM Institute centerpiece of their seaside estate.

Adler took his influence from English country houses, including Belton House (1684), Eagle House (1705), and Ham House (1610). This style of house follows strict design rules of symmetry and order; rules that are repeated both outside and in. Adler designed houses for many of the rich and powerful members of Chicago society like the Cranes, and was a master at combining architectural styles with elegance and taste. He also designed the two brick gate houses at the entrance to the estate as well as a water tower that was never built.

Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge

DON’T MISS: Look up to see the portrait busts nestled in niches above the rear porch.

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ART ON VIEW DECORDOVA NEW ENGLAND BIENNIAL 2019 Through September 15, 2019

The Biennial presents a survey of contemporary New England art, showcasing compelling and ambitious art-making by twenty-three artists in the region.

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The Trustees is pleased to be welcoming deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln into its family of Massachusetts’ most special places this summer.

Trustees Membership now provides free admission to the Sculpture Park and Museum, as well as discounts to programs, classes, and events. Members also receive discounts at the deCordova store and café—bring your Trustees Membership card and enjoy all that this incredible place has to offer!

COMING THIS FALL

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: WATERSHED

Watershed is a major, site-specific installation that interacts with deCordova’s unique natural environment. Internationally renowned artist Andy Goldsworthy will construct a nine-by-fifteen-foot stone structure, semi-embedded in the slope of deCordova’s pond-side hill.

Here is a selection of the many inspiring happenings at deCordova this summer.

TOURS

THE DOMESTIC AND THE NATURAL Thursday, August 15, 12–1 pm

PUBLIC SCULPTURE PARK TOUR

Every Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm through Dec 1

PUBLIC MUSEUM TOUR

Every Thursday and Sunday at 2 pm through Sept 15

MUSIC IN THE COURTYARD

Thursdays, July 11, 18, 25; August 1, 8, 15, 22; 6:30–8 pm (doors open 6 pm)

Our gorgeous Café Courtyard is the perfect venue for music and food on a lovely summer night!

PLUS Art-Making & Nature workshops, Family & Youth programs, artist talks and lectures, Yoga in the Park, and more. Visit decordova.org for details and to register.

Andy Goldsworthy Proposal drawing for Watershed © Andy Goldsworthy Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. New York

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Explore 117 amazing places across Massachusetts, from beaches, farms and woodlands, to historic homes, urban gardens and more.

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WHERE WONDER HAPPENS Nature Returns to The Old Manse September 13-29, 2019 TigerLion Arts’ brings its critically-acclaimed outdoor walking play Nature back to The Old Manse in Concord for 17 exhilarating performances.

(See page 18 for details.)

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