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The Tenement Museum “Past Is Prologue”
The virtue of decay When built in 1863, the tenement at 97 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of New York City was considered a hygienic building with outhouses connected to the sewer and a reservoir-fed pump just for residents. But by 1935 it made more sense for the owner to evict the…
Long Island Day 3
Driving east along the Sunrise Highway just before you enter the Hamptons you pass through a portion of the highway that crosses the land of the Shinnecock Nation. There is a large digital pylon for each direction of the highway that someday will advertise their planned casino. The Nation are recognized by the Federal government…
Long Island Day 2
Day two in Long Island, was as enjoyable as it was fast. Yes, fast, everyone is driving 10 mph above the speed limit, and when they see my Massachusetts plates I swear they up it to 15! Before the project start-up meeting and exhibit evaluation at Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, I visited the observation deck…
Long Island Trip
Great day for a road trip! Entered Long Island over the Throgs Neck bridge from Queens around 1:00pn.The first destination Oyster Bay on the Sound side of the lower Island. It was clear and cold in the Bay, even the Osprey nests were empty. There was one brave soul on an outboard not far from…
Shorebird Habitat Protection in Southie
Southie protects their Plovers….we hope. The Shorebird Protection Program is installed for the season at Carson Beach, and local photographer Judy West took photos of our panels at work, informing and evoking love. The panels at Carson are part of a 14-beach rollout of the program in seven languages. The word is out, and if…
Blue Hill Observatory opens to public
After last night’s emotional opening of the exhibit in honor of the late Mish Michaels (Anuradha Mukherjee) the well-loved meteorologist, everyone gathered atop the newly restored Blue Hill Observatory to enjoy the view and evening breeze. It was a fitting culmination of years of effort by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the architect T2…
Black Founders exhibit opens
I heard an exhibit opened in Philadelphia last week! The Museum of the American Revolution held its largest exhibit opening ever with Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia last Thursday. CDC collaborated with the MoAR team, headed by Aimee Newell, with Matthew Skic, curator, Kathryn Babbs Miller, project manager, and Rebecca Phipps, art director….
Swamps get interpretive plans too
An interpretive plan for gators, birds, hunters, and pythons While obscured by the larger adjacent Everglades National Park in most people’s consciousness, Big Cypress has a claim to authenticity that its more popular neighbor park does not. Since its establishment in 1974 as the first National Preserve, traditional ways of hunting, fishing, and ethnobotany by the Miccosukee…
Placemaking graphics at the new Casey Arborway connection
Reconnecting the Emerald Necklace Busy commuters making their connections at Forest Hills Station may not realize a vital connection has been created as well right outside the station. Our new placemaking graphic panels show how the most significant single entity of the Emerald Necklace, Franklin Park, has reclaimed its place as the pendant. The Necklace,…
Interpreting Roxbury, the Untold History
Winner of a 2020 Boston Preservation Alliance Achievement Award https://youtu.be/sFENLmwB1tU Roxbury, Massachusetts is 389 years old, and as a town, city, and now a neighborhood of Boston, has experienced all the significant upheavals and events of those last four (almost) centuries. Colonialism, war, slavery, immigration, the industrial revolution, civil rights, etc. all occurred after the…