“Make me a park!”
The message is written on posters taped to a 6-foot chain-link fence. And shouted, loudly, by Lewis Weitzman, a resident of Cambridge.
Weitzman is shouting about Jerry’s Pond a fenced-off pond completely closed to the public, sandwiched between the Alewife T Station and Russell Field in North Cambridge. He s at the pond on a fall day, running a clean-up event with Friends of Jerry’s Pond, a community group he co-founded with Eric Grunebaum.
Lewis Weitzman during the clean-up day at Jerry s Pond. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
“We could create a lot more space here,” says Grunebaum, “and that space could be used for off-road bike paths, meandering nature walks, some boardwalks through the woods. It would improve the natural landscape, but also give people access to it.”
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New York State Senator Pete Harckham announced today that four major state grants from the Conservation Partnership Program have been awarded to land trusts based in the 40th Senate District. Recipients include Friends of the Great Swamp in Pawling, NY; Pound Ridge Land Conservancy; Westchester Land Trust; and Dutchess Land Conservancy.
“Land trusts around the state help preserve, protect and manage some of the most beautiful natural areas open to the public, and they deserve wholehearted support to fulfill their missions,” said Harckham. “The four trusts in our area that are receiving this new grant funding do great work and their trails, vistas and farmlands are much-loved by residents. These state investments benefit us all in so many ways, and I am grateful they are being made.”
To the Editor:
My South Kingstown family held the last person officially enslaved here. The history of our town is sometimes uncomfortable, but it must be publicly told.
My familyâs involvement began when William Reynolds, my 9-times great grandfather, came to Providence in 1637 and soon began making his money in Bermuda, where after the Pequot War, New England settlers traded goods and local Indigenous People into slavery. In the mid-1600s, Williamâs son James Reynolds and wife Deborah Potter moved south to Narragansett Country, also called Kingâs Country. Their oldest son died during Metacometâs War (King Phillipâs War). Even so, my family thrived at the end of the war by establishing slave plantations. Like other colonists, my ancestors acquired large landholdings after the 1675 Great Swamp Massacre (West Kingston), as the Narragansetts were severely weakened through widespread death and enslavement in the Caribbean.