April 2022 - Neighbors - lists.buenavistasocialclub.org

Fwd: Could you send out this invitation?
by RUTH RYALS 30 Apr '22

30 Apr '22

OUR NEIGHBOR HAS WRITTEN A THRILLER! LET’S GO TO PORTER SQUARE TO HEAR HIM ON MAY 26, AT 7! Michael Meltsner with Daniel Medwed, Mosaic Porter Square Books is delighted to welcome Northeastern professor of law Michael Meltsner for a celebration of his novel Mosaic: Who Paid for the Bullet?, called a "fast-paced, seamless, exhilarating read". Fellow Northeastern law professor and author Daniel Medwed will join him in conversation. This event will take place on Thursday, May 26 at 7pm at Porter Square Books: Cambridge Edition. Michael Meltsner Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law Northeastern University School of Law Racial Justice Fellow, Northeastern Center for Race, Law and Justice For book information seehttp://www.michaelmeltsner.com SSRN Author Page https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpapers.ss… Available at Porter SQ Books, Amazon and B&N Nook

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Fwd: Linear Park Redesign & Danehy-New Street Connector Path Projects
by RUTH RYALS 30 Apr '22

30 Apr '22

More info: > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: "Creagh, Charles" <ccreagh(a)cambridgema.gov> > To: "Creagh, Charles" <ccreagh(a)cambridgema.gov> > Date: 04/27/2022 5:05 PM > Subject: Linear Park Redesign & Danehy-New Street Connector Path Projects > > > > Hello, > > > Please see information below that can be distributed to your neighborhood groups. I hope to see you at the upcoming site walk or at an event soon after. > > Thanks very much, > > Charlie > > > Two Path Projects that Need Your Input! > > The Cambridge Community Development is kicking off the public engagement process for two separate path design and construction projects. The two projects are the Linear Park redesign and reconstruction project and the Danehy Connector-New Street Path design and construction project. > > > Linear Park https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/communitydevelopment/linearparkrede… , located in North Cambridge between Alewife Station and the Cambridge-Somerville city line, is a popular existing multiuse path. Opened in 1985, the path surface, lighting, landscaping, storm water drainage, and other elements are in need of reconstruction and refreshing. > > > The Danehy-New Street Connector Path https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/communitydevelopment/danehyparkconn… is a proposed multi-use path located between Concord Avenue, New Street, Fresh Pond Shopping Plaza, and Danehy Park. It will be built along a former rail right-of-way purchased by the City of Cambridge in 2016. The design process will look at opportunities for a paved pathway, landscaping, tree planting, lighting, seating, and public art to be included in the path project. > > > PUBLIC SITE WALK – WEDNESDAY MAY 4TH > > Join members of the project planning team on a site walk to explore the two path design projects. The site walk will explore both the Linear Park and the Danehy-New Street Connector Path. We’ll walk both sites, answer questions, and discuss the scope of the projects. Site walks are free and open to all members of the public. > > * Date: Wednesday May 4th [RAIN DATE: Thurs May 5th] > * Location and Time - Linear: Meet at the BlueBikes station between Mass Ave and Cameron Ave in north Cambridge at 5:00pm for the Linear Park site walk. The Linear Park site tour will conclude around 5:45pm at the eastern headhouse of the MBTA Alewife Red Line train station. If you plan on joining the site walk, please send an email to Ccreagh(a)cambridgema.gov mailto:Ccreagh@cambridgema.gov or call 617-349-9167. > * Location and Time – Danehy-New St: If you want to join us on the Danehy-New Street Connector Path site walk, please meet us at 6:00pm at the Danehy Park entrance on New Street. We’ll be by the crosswalk on the Danehy park side of New Street. If you plan on joining the site walk, please send an email to Ccreagh(a)cambridgema.gov mailto:Ccreagh@cambridgema.gov or call 617-349-9167. > * See the City of Cambridge website calendar invitation at this https://www.cambridgema.gov/citycalendar/view.aspx?guid=e3b8402cb4564e5aa06… link > > Visit the project websites (camb.ma/linearpark https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/communitydevelopment/linearparkrede… and camb.ma/danehyconnector https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/communitydevelopment/danehyparkconn… ) where you can: > > * Stay tuned for announcement of upcoming public site walk on Saturday June 4th, start time TBD > * Stay tuned for announcement of upcoming Public Forum #1 on Tuesday June 7th, start time TBD > * Submit comments and suggestions using the Tell Us Your Thoughts button > * Sign up for an email newsletter to stay informed of upcoming events and pathway planning and design progress > * Stay tuned for an upcoming survey to provide specific feedback on signage, wayfinding, landscaping, art and placemaking, edge treatments, and green infrastructure > > Map of both projects: > > [Diagram Description automatically generated] > > > > > > > > > Charlie Creagh, AICP, Senior Transportation Planner > Cambridge Community Development Department > 344 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. 02139 > > https://www.facebook.com/CDDat344 https://twitter.com/cddat344 http://cddat344.tumblr.com/ http://instagram.com/cddat344 > > > > > > www.cambridgema.gov/CDD http://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD.aspx > > ccreagh(a)cambridgema.gov mailto:ccreagh@cambridgema.gov > M: 8:30-8:00 T-Th: 8:30-5:00 F: 8:30-Noon > > 617/349-9167 > > 617/349-4633 FAX > 617/349-4621 TTY > > >

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Fwd: Announcing Dr. Angela Davis as our 2022 Sonnabend Lecturer
by RUTH RYALS 29 Apr '22

29 Apr '22

Wow! > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: "President Janet L. Steinmayer" <officeofthepresident(a)lesley.edu> > To: Ruth Ryals <rryals(a)comcast.net> > Date: 04/29/2022 6:59 PM > Subject: Announcing Dr. Angela Davis as our 2022 Sonnabend Lecturer > > > > View this email in your browser https://mailchi.mp/lesley/sonnabend-lecture-announcement-4-29-2022?e=10c956… > > Dear Lesley Alumni and Friends, > > > I am delighted to announce that Dr. Angela Davis will visit Lesley virtually for our bi-annual Sonnabend Lecture on May 12 at 6:00 p.m. Please register through Zoom https://lesley.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a850587bc8e84fed99065e6fa&… to attend this event. > > Through her activism and scholarship over the last decades, Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. Her work as an educator — both at the university level and in the larger public sphere — has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice. > > The Sonnabend Lecture honors the memory of Elsa Sonnabend, former Chair of the Lesley University Board of Trustees. The Sonnabend Lecture brings to Lesley’s campus distinguished practitioners in the field of human services to work with Lesley’s students and faculty and enrich the academic community. > > You can read more about the Sonnabend Lecture and Dr. Davis on the Lesley event page https://lesley.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a850587bc8e84fed99065e6fa&… . > > This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and is free and open to the public. > > Warm regards, > > Janet L. Steinmayer > President > > > > Copyright © 2022 Lesley University, All rights reserved. > You are receiving this email because of your affiliation with Lesley University. > > Our mailing address is: > Lesley University > 29 Everett Street > Cambridge, MA 02138 > > Add us to your address book https://lesley.us2.list-manage.com/vcard?u=a850587bc8e84fed99065e6fa&id=3e0… > > > Want to change how you receive these emails? > You can update your preferences https://lesley.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=a850587bc8e84fed99065e6fa&id=3… or unsubscribe from this list https://lesley.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=a850587bc8e84fed99065e6fa&… . > >

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Fwd: to do this weekend! - Cambridge still got some WILD??
by RUTH RYALS 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

Great adventure, right at home! > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: Elizabeth McNerney <liz.mcnerney(a)gmail.com> > Date: 04/27/2022 4:52 PM > Subject: to do this weekend! - Cambridge still got some WILD?? > > > > > > Participate in the City Nature Challenge this Weekend! > > > > Lexington is officially participating in the 2022 City Nature Challenge. This is a WORLDWIDE event where volunteers will document as many wild organisms as possible between April 29th and May 2nd. Just take photos via the iNaturalist app! All observations during the timeframe within Lexington will be counted. > > > > Learn how to participate and other details here https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nex3fYUx89TaUkGL_lq4jhUzEp602J5yPyX3ns2N3nX… . Be inspired by what's happening all around the world at the CNC website https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nex3fYUx89TaUkGL_lq4jhUzEp602J5yPyX3ns2N3nX… . > > > > > > -- > Liz > May I see the world with quiet eyes -- Ruth King >

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Meeting on Porter Square Quick Build tonight at 6 pm!
by raryals 26 Apr '22

26 Apr '22

https://www.cambridgema.gov/citycalendar/view.aspx?guid=5a0d9b6acfe94757a1d… -- Ruth Ryals raryals(a)gmail.com

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Porter Square will get Quick Build
by raryals 26 Apr '22

26 Apr '22

https://www.cambridgeday.com/2022/04/26/porter-square-will-get-quick-build-… -- Ruth Ryals raryals(a)gmail.com

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Next Weekend!
by raryals 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

https://www.somervilleopenstudios.org/ -- Ruth Ryals raryals(a)gmail.com

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Fwd: Big changes in a little area
by raryals 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

https://www.cambridgeday.com/2022/04/20/season-to-taste-can-thrive-at-a-big… https://www.cambridgeday.com/2022/04/20/wraps-at-pita-and-wrapro https://www.cambridgeday.com/2022/04/19/after-36-years-porter-squares-passa… -- Ruth Ryals raryals(a)gmail.com -- Ruth Ryals raryals(a)gmail.com

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Fwd: [Porter square] Fwd: [Richdale Ave] Thistle & Shamrock!
by Comcast 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

________________________________ From: Comcast <rryals(a)comcast.net> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2022 2:31 PM To: Rick Henry <rickhenry2(a)gmail.com>; portersquare(a)googlegroups.com <portersquare(a)googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [Porter square] Fwd: [Richdale Ave] Thistle & Shamrock! I don’t know. Anyone? Ruth Ryals rryals(a)comcast.net ________________________________ From: Rick Henry <rickhenry2(a)gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2022 12:49:26 PM To: RUTH RYALS <rryals(a)comcast.net> Subject: Re: [Porter square] Fwd: [Richdale Ave] Thistle & Shamrock! Where is the birdhouse neighborhood? Sent from my iPhone On Apr 24, 2022, at 12:43 PM, RUTH RYALS <rryals(a)comcast.net> wrote: Yeah! ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Jeffrey Lipshaw <jlipshaw(a)gmail.com> To: Richdale Ave Community <richdale-ave-community(a)googlegroups.com> Date: 04/24/2022 12:38 PM Subject: Thistle & Shamrock! Norma alerted me to the article in the Globe Magazine today, highlighting top spots to live in the Boston area, and particularly this note about our neighborhood: Top Spot: North Cambridge Median home price: $1,043,814 Increase since 2016: 62.3 percent Merry White, a Boston University professor, has lived in North Cambridge for more than three decades, and in Cambridge since 1953. And yet, New England being the way it is, she still sometimes feels like an outsider. As an anthropologist, however, that doesn’t bother her much. “Anthropology means you’re always a stranger, but you can appreciate it more because you’re observing, observing, observing,” she says. “You notice things because you’re not from there.” And there’s plenty to observe in her quirky corner of the city, which runs from Porter Square along Massachusetts Avenue toward Arlington, and includes the Alewife MBTA station (plus bike paths that offer safe cycling routes to Davis Square, Watertown, or all the way to Bedford). “North Cambridge is not a single enclave, it’s got all these little micro-neighborhoods, which I think is fascinating,” she says — such as the birdhouse neighborhood. “There are a couple of blocks where every single tree and lamppost, everything, has birdhouses on it.” ________________________________ As a cookbook author, White appreciates the neighborhood’s myriad food options — including, she marvels, no less than four poke restaurants within walking distance of her home. She loves Curio Spice Co. on Mass. Ave. — ”walking in there is sort of a culinary geography lesson,” she says — but “the secret gem of the neighborhood” is a corner store called Thistle and Shamrock. Since the early days of the pandemic, the tiny grocer has been selling boxes of fresh produce for pickup — with a new recipe inside each week, written by White herself. “It’s become our corner store, and it’s become the heart of the neighborhood.” Here is a link to the entire article. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/20/magazine/top-spots-live-2022-boston-… Jeffrey M. Lipshaw -- View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/portersquare/topic-id/message-id -- To post to this group, send email to portersquare(a)googlegroups.com Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/portersquare To unsubscribe from this group, send email to portersquare+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Porter Square Neighbors Association" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to portersquare+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:portersquare+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/portersquare/288807033.3293778.1650818613…<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/portersquare/288807033.3293778.1650818613…>.

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Fwd: [Richdale Ave] Thistle & Shamrock!
by RUTH RYALS 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

Yeah! > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: Jeffrey Lipshaw <jlipshaw(a)gmail.com> > To: Richdale Ave Community <richdale-ave-community(a)googlegroups.com> > Date: 04/24/2022 12:38 PM > Subject: [Richdale Ave] Thistle & Shamrock! > > > Norma Wassel alerted me to the article in the Globe Magazine today, highlighting top spots to live in the Boston area, and particularly this note about our neighborhood: > > Top Spot: North Cambridge > > > > Median home price: $1,043,814 > > > > Increase since 2016: 62.3 percent > > > > Merry White, a Boston University professor, has lived in North Cambridge for more than three decades, and in Cambridge since 1953. And yet, New England being the way it is, she still sometimes feels like an outsider. As an anthropologist, however, that doesn’t bother her much. “Anthropology means you’re always a stranger, but you can appreciate it more because you’re observing, observing, observing,” she says. “You notice things because you’re not from there.” > > > > And there’s plenty to observe in her quirky corner of the city, which runs from Porter Square along Massachusetts Avenue toward Arlington, and includes the Alewife MBTA station (plus bike paths that offer safe cycling routes to Davis Square, Watertown, or all the way to Bedford). “North Cambridge is not a single enclave, it’s got all these little micro-neighborhoods, which I think is fascinating,” she says — such as the birdhouse neighborhood. “There are a couple of blocks where every single tree and lamppost, everything, has birdhouses on it.” > > > > > > --------------------------------------------- > > > > As a cookbook author, White appreciates the neighborhood’s myriad food options — including, she marvels, no less than four poke restaurants within walking distance of her home. She loves Curio Spice Co. on Mass. Ave. — ”walking in there is sort of a culinary geography lesson,” she says — but “the secret gem of the neighborhood” is a corner store called Thistle and Shamrock. Since the early days of the pandemic, the tiny grocer has been selling boxes of fresh produce for pickup — with a new recipe inside each week, written by White herself. “It’s become our corner store, and it’s become the heart of the neighborhood.” > > > > Here is a link to the entire article. > > https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/20/magazine/top-spots-live-2022-boston-… > > Jeffrey M. Lipshaw > >

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