Spring Clean-up Saturday at 10AM!!

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Please join me Saturday morning the annual Spring Clean-up! Arrive at 10AM at the Davis Square Statue Park (plaza in front of JP Licks) or enjoy a free breakfast at the kickoff ceremony at Blessing of the Bay Boathouse at 9AM. Buses from BotB and back will be available for anyone who wants to also join the community BBQ at noon. Refreshments, t-shirts, hats, and all clean-up gear will be provided (but feel free to bring your favorite work gloves if you prefer!). And bring friends: the more people that sign in, the bigger grant we are eligible to receive from Comcast! Forecast calls for a sunny day so remember a hat or sunscreen.  More info here.

Somerville history - walking tour May 7 of Magoun Square to Armory neighborhood

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Maida Tilchen from Magoun Square

On Saturday, May 7 from 10 am - noon, starting in front of the CVS, there will be a walking tour about the history of the neighborhood that goes from the CVS in Magoun Square (that's the next big intersection on Broadway east of Ball Square), down Lowell Street, Hudson Street, Benton Street, and then turning onto Highland near the Armory and ending up at Lowell Street.

The neighborhood once included a Hostess Cupcakes factory; a Hires Root Beer plant, some houses going back to the 1870s and other surprising history. The land was once a farm owned by an abolitionist.

This will be an informal tour with everyone invited to contribute what they know. It is part of the international Jane's Walk, an event of neighborhood walking tours inspired by Jane Jacobs, the urban renewal activist who saved Greenwich Village from being a big highway.

The walk is sponsored by the Somerville Historic Preservation Commission. It will be video'd and that will be on http://www.somervillema.gov/departments/.... There are already some great videos of past walking tours if you click on Brochures and Self-Guided Tours. May is Historic Preservation Month in Somerville so check that site for other events in May.