CONNECT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND NATURE
CONNECT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND NATURE
In Spring 2021 we welcomed the Mary Ellen Welch Memorial Garden at the Greenway entrance by Marginal Street. We are so happy to have this garden in the Greenway to remember and honor the legacy of Mary Ellen Welch. We hope that old and new visitors will enjoy gathering in the area to remember and…
The Friends hired HarborArts and The Pangeaseed Foundation to manage the replacement of two murals. Both will be located on the Greenway, on the underpass walls on the Parks Department Section of the Greenway. Sea Walls Boston is an art event planned in collaboration between the PangeaSeed Foundation and HarborArts as part of Sea Walls:…
In Fall 2019, the Friends of the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway worked with artist Carolina Aragón from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Department to install the art piece RisingEMOTIONS. This goal of this art piece was to: Engage residents around the issues of flooding due to sea level rise. Connect…
By Nat Taylor Residents are welcoming bright new improvements to the Gove Street crossing of the East Boston Greenway. On Monday morning the kids were delighted to see the colorful design and mini-library on the way to school. “The paint is a hit,” said Stephanie Weyer, on of the project’s designers from Toole Design, “and…
When we lost Mary Ellen, we lost a dear friend and neighbor, a community leader, a wise advisor and passionate advocate for social and environmental justice, a devoted daughter of East Boston and a proud Bostonian.
The design entries are in! Take a look. What do you think?
In her own words, here is a glimpse into the mettle Mary Ellen was made of. The interview was done as part of Media for Movement, a collaboration of Zumix and MIT CoLabs. — Kannan
Eastie Youth tweets her picture under FUTUREwaters|AGUASfuturas saying “I would drown.” Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley responds.
Do you think you can walk along the Greenway in 2070? What about 2030?
If you are wondering why we are asking this question, go check out FutureWATERS|AGUASfuturas, the bold and beautiful installation that brings art and science together on the East Boston Greenway asap, showing two anticipated flood levels, the 2030 and the 2070. Without any additional efforts, this will be our reality.
The greenway never knew what was about to hit it. A just-in-time action avoided a potential disaster on the Greenway. Care and advocacy by the citizenry, and responsive action by the city — model behavior all around. It all started with a neighbor alerting the Friends to a weird sound…
