Christine Riggle spent some time at Forest Hills Cemetery recently.
Forest Hills Cemetery
Truck Stop Tea Party took photos tonight at what hopefully won't be the last lantern festival at Forest Hills Cemetery.
The Forest Hills Educational Trust announced today the annual Lantern Festival will go on after all this summer. In December, the trust announced the suspension of all programs in 2011 following the departure of three staffers, including the executive director. But in an e-mail today, the trust said:
As reported here at Universal Hub and more extensively in this week's Jamaica Plain Gazette, Forest Hills Cemetery's Educational Trust has "temporarily suspended programs to engage in strategic planning". This action caused the departure of all of the Trust's paid staff.
The Forest Hills Educational Trust has sent e-mail to supporters announcing the departure of its executive director and its two other paid staff members and that:
The Forest Hills Educational Trust will take a break from its busy calendar of public programs to focus on strategic planning in 2011. The Members of our Board invite the Trust's supporters to make a valuable contribution to our efforts; please share your ideas during this time of transition as we develop the Trust's future direction.
Katken attended the annual Lantern Festival at Forest Hills Cemetery last night.
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Snapping turtle with jaws of steel refuses to move when photographer approaches. No word if it then snapped a broomstick in two with its maw.
Matthew jogs in Forest Hills Cemetery. Running with the Dead chronicles his runs through this "genteel necropolis of rolling hills, puddingstone outcrops, and the watchful trees."
Some nice photos from Forest Hills Cemetery, including one of a sunning turtle.
Some nice photos from Jamaica Pond.
Mike Ball reports somebody is stealing sculptures and urns from Forest Hills Cemtery:
... You'd suppose trying to fence two very distinctive and well-known public sculptures will end up tripping up the thieves. I hope so and I bet the cemetery (and likely its insurance company) are working that angle too ...
The Globe reports officials fear the sculptures will simply be sold for scrap.
You just have to know how to listen and do a bit of research. Mike Ball profiles a couple of inventors buried there, including Richard Lufkin, inventor of the first vamp folding machine, which was revolutionary for its time.
Both are large, impressive birds. But unlike turkeys, cormorants aren't known for attacking people. Mike Ball took a couple of photos of a cormorant stretching its wings at Forest Hills Cemetery the other day.
Evan reports on his trek (so no, he didn't fall through); he saw plenty of ice-fishing holes and a snowman standing on the ice in the middle of the pond.
Joe Driscoll stayed firmly on solid ground as he photographed Forest Hills Cemetery in the snow.
Mike Ball notices that the naked goddess of the harvest statue in Forest Hills Cemetery no longer has a protective scarf, leaving her fully exposed to the elements:
... For Ceres, the white air with the snowy lawn and iced pond surface made the statue look all the worse equipped. I may have to take over the scarf duty.
Joe Driscoll was among those taking photos at the Japanese lantern festival at Forest Hills Cemetery on Thursday (click on the photo for a much better view).
Also there taking photos: Katken and Korri Crowley, who took one shot that showed:
The lanterns were all launched from different points all over the pond, but they still all came together in the end.
Boston Police report that a woman who had just lit a memorial candle at her father's grave at Forest Hills yesterday afternoon was in her car about to leave when a guy came up to her, showed a box cutter and demanded she get out of the car. Police patrolling Centre Street in West Roxbury 30 minutes later spotted the car; arrested Jamal Daniels, 26, of Roslindale on a carjacking charge.
Mass. Marrier is our host (and, yes, it's true - e.e. cummings really is buried under a tombstone reading EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS):
... Instead of fame by distant contact, consider the fall and winter in one of Boston's most splendid parks. A few photos taken today show a bit of what you can see in staturary, wildlife, art, and iconography. ...
Kat attends, photographs the annual Lantern Festival at Forest Hills Cemetery:
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