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Weeks Footbridge Across Charles River with Solstice Illumination

Herter Park in Allston

Down by the Riverside
Digital Photographs by Fran Gardino
www.frangardino.com

February 6-28
Reception: Sunday, February 7, 2-4pm

Marblehead Arts Association
8 Hooper Street
Marblehead, MA 01945

MAA Open: Tues. - Sun. 12-5pm
781-631-2608
www.marbleheadarts.org

20% of sales will be donated to the Charles River Conservancy
www.charlesriverconservancy.org

Conservancy Calling for Bridge Underpasses, Pathway Improvements

As part of our advocacy work, the Conservancy has been giving feedback on the rehabilitation of the Charles River Bridges under the state’s Accelerated Bridge Program. We support the current plans to improve bicycle and pedestrian access and safety on the bridges themselves and the approaches; but we also believe that the bridge renovations offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to add much needed bridge underpasses—like those under the Eliot Bridge (which were added after the bridge’s original construction). Underpasses would allow people to avoid crossing dangerous intersections for a smoother, safer enjoyment of the Charles River Parklands. Click here to see a poster describing our proposal, and please email us at crc@thecharles.org with your suggestions or comments.

Littering the Charles with Daffodils:
A Recap and Thank-you

Daffodil planting

We’d like to thank everyone who participated in our recently ended bulb campaign. Whether you were one of the over 250 volunteers who assisted with plantings or one of the many individual and corporate donors who provided generous financial assistance, your work will result in thousands of daffodils giving joyful color to our riverbanks next April. The results:

10,000 naturalizing daffodil bulbs were planted along the banks of the Charles, including 4,000 in Herter Park, Allston-Brighton and 6,000 in Cambridge. These bulbs were mixed colors and hardy varieties well suited to our urban parklands.
10 events featuring the work of a great many groups. A big thank-you goes out to our volunteers from Bowdoin Alumni, Boston University Law School, Bunker Hill Community College, our Conservancy Volunteers, Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Harvard Graduate Programs, Leaps in Literacy, MIT Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, MIT Pi Lamda Phi fraternity, MIT Theta IX fraternity, Nokia, Saucony, Shaw Leadership Program at Boston College, Trillium Asset Management, and Vistaprint.
Gratitude is also extended to the generous individual and corporate donors who made these events possible. Thanks especially to Advent Software, Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Nokia, Saucony, Trillium Asset Management, and Vistaprint!

We have a great many photographs from each event on Facebook. To view them please click here. Additional photographs will be taken and posted when the bulbs blossom in spring. For any additional information on our bulb planting events, or to discuss holding a similar event next year please contact Volunteer Coordinator John Broderick at jrb@thecharles.org.

A Swimmable Charles River

The Charles River Conservancy is pleased to announce the availability of a new publication promoting public access swimming in the Charles River. A Swimmable Charles River is available on the web-site as a PDF or a hard copy can be ordered for $5 through Karen Patterson Greene, Swimmable Charles Coordinator at KPG@thecharles.org. The Conservancy has also created a petition to show support for the Swimmable Charles Initiative. Download a copy of the petition and ask your friends, neighbors and co-workers to sign it and send it back to the Conservancy.