Happy Mother’s Day! One of the most notable “Moms” in Boston is Mrs. Mallard from Nancy Schön’s Make Way for Ducklings sculpture in the Boston Public Garden. Enjoy solving this jigsaw picture puzzle with Mrs. Mallard followed by Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack. How to play: Move and drag the pieces around just like Read More…
Duckling Day is coming up. On Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 8, starting at 10 a.m., the Harvard Marching Band will lead hundreds of parents and children dressed like ducklings from the Boston Common’s Parkman Bandstand into the Public Garden in a re-creation—sort of—of Mrs. Mallard’s trip to the Public Garden with her eight ducklings. (Mrs. Read More…
The new head of the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Board, Georgia Murray, wants to bring more public art to the Greenway. Surveys by the Conservancy and Greenway Leadership Council have shown strong support for public art, especially now that planned development proposals have been withdrawn. Introductory research and planning for public art dominated the Read More…