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“Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable”

serving the Fenway, Kenmore Square, upper Back Bay, Prudential, Longwood Area & Mission Hill since 1974 volume 36, number 8 July 2-29 2010

Trust Enriches Neighborhood the Mass Art property to establish the trust.
According to www.missionhillfenwaynt.
housing, youth programs, elderly programs,
social services and whatever the Mission

Groups with $43,000 in Grants
by Stephen Brophy
The Mission Hill/Fenway Neighborhood
Trust gave away $43,194 on June 3, and the
two communities will be nicer to live in as ainteractions with the seniors in the program.
result. The annual meeting was held on the
11th floor of the Mass. College of Art, and the
elements put on an exciting demonstration
org, the Trust’s website, “The 1988 law
required that the Trust administer and
operate a fund which will give loans or
Hill Fenway Neighborhood Trust deems
appropriate.”
The Trust’s board of directors are
program, and one of the students said that
grants to community-based Mission Hill and Richard Orareo, Tina Pankievich, Lauren
he learned that “young people can act old,
Fenway non-profit organizations, community Dewey Platt (board chair), Alison Pultinas,
and old people can act young” because of his
development corporations, and groups which Bettye Robinson, and Bonnie Thryselius. A
enhance the quality of life through affordable list of this year’s awardees appears below.
They were followed by David Zermeno
and Olga Goldus, who accepted a check for
Operation P.E.A.C.E. Goldus, who in her 60s
discovered that she is an artist, Butterflies Are Free...and So Is the BBQ
repeated that student’s sentiment as
she talked about her experience in
Operation P.E.A.C.E. (Zermeno is
director of that program).
The highlight of the meeting
came when two members of the
Roxbury Council of the Knights of
Columbus, Bobby Healy and Jack
Dolan, accepted a check. Dolan,
explaining why the K of C does
what it does, told a story about
a man walking on a beach after

Photo © stephen baird

Bobby Healey, of the Knights of Columbus, Roxbury a storm. He saw a boy throwing
Council 123, accepts a check from Tina Pankievich of starfish back into the sea—
the Mission Hill/Fenway Neighborhood Trust at the hundreds had been washed onto the
Trust’s annual meeting on June 3. beach by the storm—and decided
to ask the boy why he was doing
of their power just after the meeting got it. “It doesn’t matter to anyone if you toss
underway. A thunderstorm with massive them back,” the man said. “It matters to the Celebrate Independence Day in the Victory Gardens with the Fenway Garden
quantities of rain set in, and the beautiful starfish” was the boy’s reply. Healy told The Society. The afternoon event on July 4 features a barbecue lunch, contests, music
view of Mission Hill from that tower was Fenway News later the K of C has been doing by saxophonist Kenji Kikuchi, and a Monarch butterfly workshop. The festival runs
obliterated for about 20 minutes by the clean-up projects in the neighborhood “for 2-6 p.m., rain or shine, and is free.
downpour. 100 years, and it feels good to be recognized.” Although competing with free food is tough, Emerald Necklace Conservancy’s
That was not the only entertainment The Trust traces its origins to a $1.5 Stephen Baird, a naturalist, hopes to make the highlight of the day his butterfly
provided, however—some of the grant million fund established by Beth Israel workshop, which includes a contest in which both kids and adults compete to
recipients also charmed the audience with Hospital in 1995, when it bought the old Mass create paper butterflies. Learn about Monarchs, see live butterfly displays, create
their heartfelt gratitude for the checks the College of Art building in the Longwood your own butterfly, and discover ways to enhance conservation for this important
Trust was handing out. Two teachers and Medical Area. Thanks to the work of and beneficial insect.
two students from the Edgar P. Benjamin then-Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald, whose district The event was made possible by a grant from the Mission Hill/Fenway
Healthcare Center in Roxbury Crossing included Mission Hill, the state legislature Neighborhood Trust. For more information, visit www.fenwayvictorygardens.com.
accepted a grant for an intergenerational had enacted a law requiring whoever bought

$5,000, a matching grant for the Eighth grant for Ninth Annual Prudential Center
Neighborhood trust grants for 2010 Intergenerational Program for BHC Art Exhibition
residents and students at the Roxbury > Fenway Community Development
> Knights of Columbus, Roxbury Council Association—$3,000, for massage Preparatory Charter School Corporation—$3,100, for Fenway
123—$500, for site clean-up of the program to serve elderly and disabled > Emerald Necklace Conservancy, fiscal Outdoor Community Space pilot project
facility at 1455 Tremont Street RTH residents agent for Fenway Civic Association— > Fenway CDC, fiscal agent for Solar
> Mission Hill School—$2,000, for painting > Mission Hill Health Movement—$1,250— $2,220, for 2010 summer jazz concert at Fenway—$5,000, a matching grant for
the school gym for Mission Main CRC events and the Mothers’ Rest Playground (to be held on a “Solar Assist” fund for a PV (solar
> Maurice J. Tobin Community Center— diabetes self-management group July 21—see ad on page 6) electric) system to be installed at the
$2,624, for fitness classes for Mission > ABDC Parker Hill/Fenway Neighborhood > Friends of Ramler Park—$3,000, for McKinley School in the Fenway
Hill’s elderly population Service Center—$5,500, for computer surface prep and touch-up painting of > Operation P.E.A.C.E—$5,000, a matching
> Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc., instruction for adult community decorative bird fence, iron fountain bowl grant for a project to train three new
fiscal agent for the Mission Hill Summer residents and base, and pergola community leaders for the Youth
Program—$3,500, for stipends for junior > MissionSAFE: A New Beginning—$5,000, > The Fenway Garden Society—$3,500, Academy, Community Technology and
counselors in the 2010 Mission Hill a matching grant for 2010 Summer Arts a one-time grant for July Fourth Resource Center, and a part-time grant
Summer Program internships for youth Community Event writer
> Roxbury Tenants of Harvard > Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center— > Kaji Aso Studio—$3,500, a one-time

CDC Hopes Free Films Lay Foundation for New Community Space

T
by: Chelsea Brown
he former site of the McDonald’s on
Boylston Street will be temporarily
transformed into an outdoor movie
theater on August 6 and 7 in the
first summer event of the Common Ground
initiative, a Fenway Community Development
Corporation (FCDC) project aimed
at establishing a community center
for the neighborhood.
Each night will cater to
different age groups with a feature
presentation. “We hope to feature a
performance or art work, including
the work of youth from McKinley
High School,” said Sarah Horsley,
Civic Engagment Director at the
FCDC.
This event will be free and
open to the public; the movies
themselves will be announced in July.
The selection of the former McDonald’s
parking lot is significant because the
destruction of McDonald’s took away a
popular community gathering space.
Cassandria Campbell, Project Assitant
at FCDC, said the former McDonald’s
was a place where residents would come
and socialize over a cheap meal. “When
McDonald’s was torn down, some members
of the community were concerned,” said
Horsley. “It was an informal gathering space
for seniors and people with low income.” The
Common Ground initiative grew out of this
concern.
Horsley defined Common Ground as a
long-term initiative to expand space in the
neighborhood. The program will include both
an assessment of local service needs and a
series of summer events. The outdoor summer
activities are an interim step toward address-
ing the lack of space in the community, ac-
cording to Campbell.
The idea for expanded community
spaces grows from the FCDC’s Urban
Village Plan, which envisions the
neighborhood as a model of smart growth
where both institutions and residents can
thrive. The project won funding from
My Summer in the City, a grant program
set up by the Boston Foundation and
supported by a variety of foundations,
like the Boston, Barr, and Yawkey
foundations, according to Horsley.
The project also received funds
from the Mission Hill/Fenway Neighborhood
Trust (see lead article), which uses income
from its endowment to make grants that
help neighborhood organizations carry out
projectst designed to improve quality of life in
the Fenway and Mission Hill.
The FCDC urged the Abbey Group, the
developers who traded another parking lot to
the Boston Red Sox for the McDonald’s site,
to offer a part of the lot for temporary outdoor
uses.
“The Fenway CDC has a great
relationship with the Abbey Group and [we]
approached them,” said Horsley. “The Abbey
Group thought this was a great idea and
generously offered the lot for community use
on evenings and weekends when there are not
Red Sox games.”
“The Fenway is the one of the only
neighborhoods in Boston without a
community center,” said Campbell. If the
Common Ground initiative accomplishes its
goal, this will no longer be true.
Bringing people together for movies is
a good first step. The FCDC hopes the “film
festival” will become an annual event.
Chelsea Brown is associate editor of The
Fenway News and lives in the West Fens.
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South End Store Merges Art & Crafts

opens. “The Practical,
Impractical, and Artrageous“,
which is currently on display, is
the second annual fashion show
held by Bead+Fiber.
Last month, Bead +Fiber
and Artists for Humanity, held
a charity fashion show. Artists
for Humanity (AFH) partners
Photo: chelsea brown
Beethoven Bats It Out of the Park
It took just 72 hours for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra to give away 15,000 tickets
for its free concert at Fenway Park, which takes place Wednesday, July 7, from 7:00 to
9:00 p.m. The orchestra, in its tenth year, builds a summertime season around concerts
in “significant settings” throughout Boston, but Fenway Park represents a new venue.
The unlikely idea seems to have driven demand for the tickets (that and the fact that
they were free), but a crowd-pleasing program couldn’t have hurt: Aaron Copland’s
“Fanfare for the Common Man,” selections from “West Side Story,” and the “Ode to

youth with professional artists/
designers to design, create and
sell art products, according
to their mission statement.
The show was organized by
Joy” from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Lucky ticket-holders should repair to Gate B,
which opens at 6:00; the rest of us will have to settle for listening live on the radio (99.5,
WGBH’s new all-classical station); watching it on TV (WGBH/channel 2); or lounging in
a beach chair on a nearby sidewalk as if it were a Stones concert. The BLO returns to
its home base at the Esplanade’s Hatch Shell on July 14 (see calendar), where it will

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chelsea brown Barbara Poole and Rachel perform every Wednesday night through September 7.
Worrall
ndrea Garr picks up a vintage,
horn bead from the table.
“The Bead+Fiber show was not an Berklee Students Join Wyclef Jean on Next Album
ordinary show but an amusement for people
Behind her, crocheted beads Wyclef Jean, internationally known musician and Berklee student, is collaborating
passing,” said Elena Kollarova, model and
and wearable art from “The with fellow student to produce tracks for “The Haitian Experience,” his new album.
Suffolk University student. “We, the models
Practical, Impractical, and Artrageous” show Will Wells, a Berklee student with a dual major in film scoring and music production/
were supposed to walk down a pedestrian
are displayed in the windows. Bead+Fiber, engineering, impressed Jean so much that he asked him to arrange string parts for
street and look like live pieces of art when
located on 460 Harrison Avenue, is pushing three of the tracks, plus conduct the student musicians who will bring the arrangements
we pose so that people can admire us and the
forward a new concept in crafting art. to life. The tracks will be recorded at Q Division Studions in Somerville with another
pieces that we were all wearing.”
“People seem to appreciate that things music production/engineering major, Adam Hand, assisting Jean behind the boards.
The show featured works from designers
are different and unusual and changing,” said
Melanie Anderson, Emily Bicht, Marisa
Andrea Garr, owner of Bead+Fiber. Garr,
DiPaola, Julia Ebel, Virginia Fitzgerald,
Diamondbacks Inside, Protesters Outside
who has collected beads throughout her life,
Wylie Sophie Garcia, Hanna Hall, Meredith About 200 protesters gathered outside Fenway Park June 15 to protest the presence
crochets beads which are sold in her store.
Ianelli, Anne M. Lee, Barbara Poole, Vanessa of a visiting baseball team. These weren’t, however, Yankees-hating Sox fans,
Bead+Fiber, which opened a year and
Walilko, Justine Dennis, Kelsey Bacon, but Bostonians intent on expressing their displeasure to the visitors—the Arizona
a half ago, houses vintage and ethnic beads,
Cindy Wong, Brittany Lebold, and Rebecca Diamondbacks—over a controversial new state law in Arizona. The law requires law-
natural stones, shells, hand painted aprons
Wendelandt. enforcement officers to stop anyone who appears to be an “illegal immigrant” (i.e.,
from South Africa, metal works from Japan,
Kollarova said the show was great who looks Hispanic, although that word doesn’t appear in the law) and ask them to
felt, fibers, and tools for weaving, knitting,
experience and she “loved it.” show proof of citizenship. The protesters, from church groups and labor unions as well
and crocheting.
Garr believes that developing a as immigrant advocacy groups, also criticized similar legislation being considered by
Bead+Fiber came about from Garr’s
community is important for her business. the Massachusetts legislature. They argued that both laws encourage racial profiling.
idea of merging her studio with a retail space.
Garr, a Boston resident, has reached out to the The Boston Globe quoted Miguel Montero, a 26-year-old Venezuelan player on the
Garr, who describes the space as the “glass
children in the South End neighborhood. Diamondbacks, as saying, “It’s [protests against the law] been happening everywhere
box on the corner,” said she was intrigued by
This year, she taught students at the we go. We don’t talk about it.’’
the prospect of opening a store.
Cathedral Grammar School how to sew on Newlines compiled this month by Stephen Brophy and Steve Wolf
“I had an advantage because I had my
recycled silk. “I want to teach them something
crochet business in the neighborhood,” said
they can take with them,” said Garr.
Garr.

Farmer’s Markets
As the owner of the only bead store
In addition to selling beads and original
left in Boston, Garr hope artists and local
art work, local artists teach classes. The
businesses will continue to support her.
classes change every three months, according
“If people do not support the small
to Garr. Copley Square Grab strawberries
businesses of the world, it is going to be a
“It is an active space where people can while you can, as the
depressing place,” she said. Tuesday & Friday 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
be inspired to make something,” said Garr. local season is nearing
Chelsea Brown is a graduate student Prudential CENTER: 800 Boylston, across from Walgreen’s
Every six weeks, a new gallery show its end. (Marshall’s,
in journalism at Emerson College.
Thursday 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. the farm stand in the
Mission Hill: Brigham Circle old Goodyear Store
on Boylston Street,
Thursday 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
promises a second
Jamaica Plain: Bank of America lot, Centre Street wave of Canadian
Wednesday 12:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. strawberries later
Saturday 12:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. in the month.) Local
South End: 540 Harrison Avenue (at SoWa arts market) corn should begin
Sunday 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. appearing this month.

street Cleaning Charlesgate Extension, and Forsyth Way,

8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
The city cleans Fenway residential streets
between 12 and 4 p.m. on the first and third • Second Friday
Wednesdays of the month (odd-numbered 8 to 54 The Fenway (includes inside lane),
side) and the second and fourth Wednesdays Charlesgate Extension, 12:00–3:00 p.m.
(even-numbered sides). Get more info at 617- • Third Tuesday
635-4900 or www.cityofboston.gov/public- > Park Drive (includes inside lane), upper
works/sweeping. The state cleans streets Boylston Street, 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
that border the Fens on this schedule: > Park Drive, from Holy Trinity Orthodox
• Second Thursday Cathedral to Kilmarnock Street and
The Riverway, 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. from the Riverside Line overpass to
Beacon Street, 12:00–3:00 p.m.
• Second Friday
www.mass.gov/dcr/sweep.htm has a com-
The Fenway (includes inside lane), plete schedule and maps.
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 in memor ia m

One of this newspaper’s least pleasant yet most important functions is to record the
deaths of friends and neighbors, people whose passing sometimes doesn’t make it into the Jay Wadenpfuhl
city’s larger newspapers. We regret that May and June brought us more then the usual By Ellen Pfeiffer
number of deaths to report. New England Conservatory is mourning the death of Jay Wadenpfuhl, who played in the
Boston Symphony Orchestra’s horn section for 29 years and was a member of the NEC faculty
Robert G. Jeffers for 23 years. Wadenpfuhl died June 19 of acute respiratory distress syndrome. He was 60.
Mr. Wadenpfuhl was born into a musical family in Kirbyville, Texas, where his mother
by Camille Platt played and taught piano and directed choirs, and his father, a trumpet player, conducted prize-
On May 20 Robert G. Jeffers was found dead in his condominium at 41 Park Drive. winning high school and college bands. (His parents, both active octogenarians, had died in
Mr. Jeffers was born on August 5, 1952, in Baltimore; he is survived by his brother just the last six months, his mother in December and his father on June 13.) Young Jay was
Lawrence Jeffers, sister Karen Jeffers, and sister Diane Rossiter, along with nephews, grand- a professional horn player from age 15, when
nephews, a niece, and a grand-niece. He was predeceased by his parents, Lawrence and Agnes he performed with the Beaumont, Texas,
Jeffers. He spent his entire adult life in the Boston area, working as a salesman, his last job Symphony Orchestra and the Beaumont Civic
being a sales executive with Information Mapping of Waltham. Opera.
One of his main interests was music; he was a subscriber for 20 years to the Boston At the BSO, he occupied the John P. II
Symphony Orchestra and served as a board member of Collage New Music. He was a prolific and Nancy S. Eustis chair. Mr. Wadenpfuhl
reader, primarily of 19th- and 20th-century European history. He also enjoyed hiking and joined the NEC faculty in 1987 and, among the
camping, especially in Vermont. Among other noteworth volunteer service, he was a board students he taught was his second cousin and
member of Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly. Through that organization he “adopted” hornist, Lee Wadenpfuhl ’06 M.M.
George, an elderly man with whom he remained close until George’s death. A versatile musician comfortable in many

Photo: new england conservatory

A memorial service for family was held on June 5 in Fairfield, Connecticut. Mr. Jeffers’
ashes are to be spread in Vermont. Donations in his memory can be made to Collage New
Music (PO box 230150, Boston 02123) or to Little Brothers–Friends of the Elderly, 3305
Washington Street, Jamaica Plain 02130.
Camille Platt lives in the West Fens.
Pierre (Peter) LeRue
Pierre LeRue, a 50-year resident of the West Fenway, died on June 23 after a series of
short illnesses
Mr. LeRue was born in France’s Normandy region. Too young to fight during World War
II, he and a friend hid above the beachhead during the Normandy invasion, giving them a
front-row seat from which to witness D Day.
A pastry chef upon his arrival to the United States, Mr. LeRue worked at both the Ritz-
Carlton Hotel on Arlington Street and the Copley Plaza Hotel in Copley Square throughout the
1950s and 1960s. He was an avid gardener in the Fenway Victory Gardens and will always be
remembered for his tremendous tomatoes and zucchini.
Mr. LeRue is survived by his wife and longtime companion, Judy Rossi-LeRue, and his
son, Randy, of Newburyport.
genres, Mr. Wadenpfuhl composed works
for horn and was also a composer/lyricist
of popular and jazz songs. He recorded two
albums with the NFB Horn Quartet, composed
of former students of the legendary horn player
John Barrows. The group dedicated its first
album to the memory of Barrows, and the
album included Mr. Wadenpfuhl’s composition,
Tectonica, for eight horns and percussion. The second album featured a collaboration with
horn player Barry Tuckwell, and included Gunther Schuller’s Five Pieces for Five Horns and
Mr. Wadenpfuhl’s quartet Textures.
In addition, he toured Japan with the Michel LeGrand Jazz Orchestra, and toured and
recorded with Chuck Mangione, appearing on the albums Live at the Hollywood Bowl and
Tarantella. In 1989, Mr. Wadenpfuhl performed the world premiere of William Thomas
McKinley’s Huntington Horn Concerto with John Williams and the Boston Pops.
Frank Epstein, a longtime BSO colleague and chair of Brass and Percussion at NEC, said
about his colleague: “Jay was a one-of-a-kind personality, emotionally charged yet highly
committed to all things musical. An unusual talent, he was a composer of brass music and
loved to conduct pieces in the brass repertoire. His playing was elegant, stylistically fluent and
secure, his tone beautifully centered at all times, while his playing was always musical with an
extraordinary sense of good taste. He was also a committed teacher.”
Mr. Wadenpfuhl leaves his wife, Michelle Perry, hornist in the Empire Brass and
performer with numerous Boston ensembles.

Remembering Lisa Rein-Woisin...Advocate, Organizer, Counselor, Friend

O
by Matti Kniva Spencer
n May 31 the world lost one of its most gracious
souls. Lisa Rein-Woisin passed away quietly
after a short battle with cancer. She was 49
years old. This woman was able to touch
the hearts and souls of many who came to
know her. I had the privilege of working with Lisa on many
occasions and am proud to say that she was a trusted friend
as well. It would be unfair of me to write this article and brag
humanitarian who reached out and helped everyone who impact in the entire community, and Lisa’s work needed to
came near her presence—young and old alike. I will certainly be highlighted. Not only did she raise funds through a local
miss her, but her spirit will always remain a part of us.” Adds campaign to secure the senior aides, when local funding
Santosh Sharma, “She was a very organized person and dwindled she obtained an award from the mayor for her
always inquired about me, my husband, everyone. She was a outstanding efforts in leading the center. On a personal note, I
beautiful and giving person..inside and outside.” Adds Claire considered Lisa not simply a colleague but a friend. As fellow
Flury,” Lisa was a wonderful person, kind to everybody. I parents, we discussed our children for hours. I looked forward
shall miss her immensely.” to these early morning chats, and my heart bears the impact
Delia Alvarez worked with Lisa for six years as the of the loss of this truly amazing woman.”

I
about her incessently all by myself...although I could. Far senior aide. “Lisa was a friend,” she says, “someone I could
too many other individuals came to know Lisa and I want to talk to who always listened to what I had to say. As I got to t would be easy to go on describing the good Lisa did
include their thoughts as know her more, she became for so many people. She was a pillar in her community,
well. like a sister to me, then a a source of joy and a bolt of love. She was a leader
Lisa was the director daughter. We shared so amongst leaders, and was so honored by the FCDC for
of the Peterborough Senior much—about our families, all her fine work and achievements toward building the Peter-
Center, in the West Fens, for life, everything. She borough Community Center and making it what it is today.
ten years. She gave herself never once said anything On a personal note, Lisa was a sister and friend to me...
completely to the cause of negative about anyone and for many years. I would meet with her at least once a month
helping seniors, whether that always saw the positive in to offer her support and try to share ideas with her about ways
involved creating programs everyone.” we could make things better at the center.
for them to enjoy, planning Adds Jerry Cooper, a One such idea was to take photos of the seniors and
fantastic cook-outs, inducing longtime fixture himself in describe their many achievements, to recognize them while
guest speakers to come the West Fens, “Someone they were still alive. Lisa recognized my skills as a writer
Photo: matti kniva spencer

speak about health issues, or
counseling seniors on issues
they faced. The list goes on.
One person who
connected with Lisa and was
hired to teach African dance
at the center is Wyoma,
who says, “Lisa was a bright light flashing across the sky...
that lit our lives...a servant of good will who truly meant us
all well. She had caring and concern for the needs of others.
She was steady, thorough and accomplished with her work
and just wanted to bring the best of the best to the center. It
was equally important for her to slow down enough from her
very busy schedule to make each and every one who walked
through that door feel welcomed and special. And what goes
around comes around: she lived a good life to the end. Her
spirit lives on at the Peterborough Senior Center and in all the
many lives that she has touched.”
Many seniors who came to the center regularly shared
their thoughts. Says Gloria Platt, “Lisa was as close to being
a living saint as anyone I’ve ever known. She had a quiet
grace about her that was very rare.” Adds Don Mathieu,
“When she tried to do something for the seniors, she had a
way of getting us all to help out without putting pressure on
us. She wanted to create a new center and always welcomed
our new ideas on what we wanted, what would work best
for us. It was never about her, it was about us. Her dream
was to get a larger center. Let’s keep this hope alive.”
Christine Kleckley, another regular, states, “Lisa was a great
like Lisa doesn’t come and photographer and engaged me to develop the show with
around often in this her. We called it, “Seniors...A Profile Of Their Lives,” and
lifetime.” Barbara Loo the show was so popular that it led to further shows shows
adds, “Lisa was thoughtful, like “Faces In Massachusetts, 2010,” currently showing at the
welcoming and gracious.” Senior Center.
Her husband, Gilbert Loo, Ironically, at the time of her illness I had been working
continues, “Lisa picked on this show. I decided long before her death that I would
out a photo of the #55 bus five years ago and enlarged it. dedicate the entire show to her. Without Lisa, there would
It became a link between the neighborhood and the city. be no “Faces In Massachusetts.” Sadly, she never got to
Thanks to her, things got rolling with [the campaign to save] view it, but anyone who enters the Senior Center can feel
the #55 bus, as she advocated for everyone.” According to her presence. We will miss you, Lisa. May God be with you
Jana Peretz, “ Lisa was selfless, kind, professional, cheerful... wherever you are, and may you rest in quiet peace. We love
irreplaceable.” you!
Karla Nicholson, former assistant director of the Fenway Lisa was the beloved wife of Michael Woisin, devoted
CDC, met Lisa over a decade ago and had the pleasure of mother to Emily and Jake, cherished daughter of Lawrence
working with her. They not only worked and Carol Rein, loving sister of
together but became friends. Says Karla,
“As the extremely capable director of the
Celebrating Lisa’s Life Nina Lipton and David Rein.
She leaves behind many friends.
Peterborough Senior Center, she created a The neighborhood is invited to a Services were held at Belmont’s
space that was inviting, informative, and celebration of Lisa Rein-Woisin’s Beth El Temple Center on June
that drew people of all ages. Many of us on 3, and the burial was at Newton
life on Saturday, July 17, at the
[the CDC] staff intentionally included some Cemetary. Remembrances
Peterborough Senior Center. The
of her exciting, dynamic programming into can be made to Massachusetts
our regular schedules. organizers encourage people to General Hospital Pancreatic
“The center was an oasis for many,” come with stories to share about Cancer Research Fund, 165
Karla continues. “For a few years, I worked Lisa. The “community meetings” Cambridge Street, Suite 600,
with Carl (Nagy-Koechlin, former CDC section of our Calendar, on page 8, Boston, MA 02114.
executive director) in supervising her. It has details. Matti Kniva Spencer lives
was evident that the center had a strong in the West Fens.
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Of Books, Boards, and Boomers’ Movies

A
by Stephen Brophy
s you might expect, those of us who put together The
Fenway News are avid readers. In fact, some of us have
run out of shelf space, and floor space for stacking is
becoming scarce. Cathy Jacobowitz, our bookkeeper,
came up with a brilliant idea recently—let’s have a book sale. And
that’s just what we’re doing—on Saturday, July 10, from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. We plan to set up on tables in the little park next
to the Fensgate Housing Co-op at 73 Hemenway St.;
if the weather proves booksale-hostile, we will move
from the editor
indoors to the co-op’s Community Room.
Books will generally be priced at $1 for paperbacks and $2 for
hardcovers. If you have surplus books to donate, we’d be happy to
take them off your hands. You can drop them at the Fenway CDC
office (also in the Fensgate building and open 9-6 on weekdays); call
the newspaper office at 617-266-8790; or email Cathy at advertisefn@
gmail.com. Books left over at the end of the sale will be donated to
the City-wide of Friends of the Boston Public Library.
☞☜
Lichtenstein spoke about these proposals at the meeting.Students in
his class on entrepreneurship developed a prototype business model Serving the Fenway, Kenmore Square, Audubon
for The Fenway News, and devised an interactive spreadsheet to
help the board and staff understand the financial the implications
of various decisions we might make about printing, distribution,
number of pages and other such choices. A marketing class taught by
one of Prof. Lichtenstein’s colleagues produced two small projects
involving marketing. With the Circle, upper Back Bay, lower Roxbury, Prudential,
new energy on the board and
these proposals, The Fenway
Mission Hill, and Longwood since 1974
Fenway News Association
Board of Directors
News is poised to make some really interesting changes in the Steve Chase • Helen Cox, president
coming year. Tracey Cusick • Joyce Foster • Steven Harnish
You might have noticed a new position in our masthead (because John Kelly • Barbara Brook Simons
everyone reads the fine print, right?). Chelsea Brown is filling the Steve Wolf, treasurer
position of associate edtior for the rest of the summer, and she is Editor: Stephen Brophy
off to a good start. A graduate student in journalism at Emerson WEB EDITOR: Jonathan Kim
College, she is donating about 10 hours per week to the paper, both ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Chelsea Brown
as a writer and as a coordinator of special projects. Among the Production Designer: Steve Wolf
things she’s working on is an expanded distribution list for all the Writers: Jon Ball, Helen Cox,
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he Fenway News held its annual meeting in June 10, and a mo- in September. I have pointed out many times that The Fenway News Lori A. Frankian, Joyce Foster, Marie
mentous change happened—four of the nine board members is an almost entirely volunteer operation; it is people like Chelsea Fukuda, Galen Gilbert, Elizabeth Gillis,
retired. No one can who help us continue to grow and to Katherine Greenough, Steven Harnish,
change. Erin Harper, Duke Hartin, John Kelly,
remember such a large
Ruth Khowais, Jonathan Kim, Pamela King,
turnover ever happening in Shirley Kressel, Marc Laderman,
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our 36-year history. Those Lauren Landry, Aqilla Manna,
stepping down included ome readers know that I Erica Mattison, Richard Pendleton,
former president Ruth volunteer at the Peterborough Camille Platt, Meena Ramakrishnan,
Khowais, Jon Ball, Eliza- Senior Center, leading Mike Ross, Matti Kniva Spencer,
beth Gillis (the current discussions on short stories and Ann Tobin, Chuck Turner, Clyde Whalen,
clerk), and Gloria Platt. the occasional movie. This month Margaret Witham
PhotographerS: Lois Johnston, Patrick
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These four we inaugurate an evening program

Fenwickians helped to hold called Boomers Night Out in hopes O’Connor, Valarie Seabrook, Matti Kniva
of attracting people who aren’t Spencer, Steve Wolf
the paper together over an
CALENDAR: Helen Cox, Stephen Brophy,
a four-year period when quite officially seniors yet (when Penina Adelman, Meena Ramakrishnan
it did not have an official does that happen?) but might like to Proofreaders: Tracey Cusick, Lisa Wood
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and volunteer coordination and Elizabeth Gillis discussion after, not only about the Distribution: Nicole Auberg, Della
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by patrick o’connor
The Fenway is home to three of
Boston’s finest high schools, all of
which held graduation ceremonies
last month. Congratulations to all
graduates on earning their diplomas
and good luck in the future.
Fenway High School
Fenway High’s 26th commence-
ment took place on June 9 on the
Emmanuel College campus (upper
photo). The salutatory address was
presented by Gregory Nuzzo-Muel-
Photos: patrick o’connor
Boston Arts Academy
Symphony Hall was the setting
for the Arts Academy graduation
on Friday, June 11. Delivering the
valedictory address was Simona
Clausnitzer. Diplomas were
presented to 72 graduates.
Boston Latin School
The Harbor Lights Pavilion on the
waterfront was the scene for gradu-
ation on Monday evening, June 14
(lower photo). The valedictory ad-
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Latin Students Turn Potential Gay-Bashing on Its Head Fri., July 2 7:10 p.m.

I
by Stephen Brophy wasn’t just a rumor. Most of the students I can’t begin to say how inspiring it is
rolled out of the house at 6:45 a.m. on I talked with had either heard about it in to see more than a 1,000 high school stu- Sat., July 3 7:10 p.m.
June 7, something that hasn’t happened rumor form in school, or on Facebook. The dents massed together to present a message
students started organizing a response almost of inclusion. The only problem is that no
Sun., July 4 1:35 p.m.
in years. The proximate cause: the
Westboro Baptist Church had let it be immediately. While Mooney-Teta emphasized Westboro Baptists were there to see it—they Thurs., July 15 7:10 p.m.
known that they never showed up. But in their absence they
intended to picket accomplished much the same thing that hap- Fri., July 16 7:10 p.m.
the Boston Latin pens when they do show up—people coalesce
Sat., July 17 7:10 p.m.
School between around the opposite message. A couple of
7:15 and 7:45 a.m. teachers (who were not commenting on the Sun., July 18 1:35 p.m.
I got to the record) speculated that BLS had been targeted
school at 7:05 (our because it has a Gay/Straight Alliance. Stu- Fri., July 30 7:10 p.m.
photographer, dents associated with that group must be feel- Sat., July 31 4:10 p.m.
Val Seabrook, ing extra-special good today after seeing the
had been there show of support their fellow students put on.
since just after
Photo: valarie seabrook

6:30 a.m.) to find ☞ f e n w a y h I S T ORY ☜

a sea of young
faces in a mostly
jubilant mood,
being watched
over by a team of
slightly older faces with a few worry lines. As
the morning progressed those lines gradually
were replaced by the kind produced by smiles.
The Westboro Baptist Church, in case
you haven’t yet heard of it, is an extended
family masquerading as a religion that likes
to travel around the country holding up signs
with messages like “God Hates Fags.” They
started this peculiar behavior more than
a decade ago, at first targeting gay pride
parades. Then they got the hateful idea to
picket the funerals of soldiers killed in the
Iraq and Afghanistan wars, on the theory that
these deaths represent their god’s displeasure
at America’s increasing acceptance of a
broader range of sexuality as “normal.”
BLS Headmaster Lynne Mooney-Teta
told me that the school had been faxed by
the Church last week, confirming that this
that “today is student-generated,” student
organizers spoke positively about the teacher/
administration input.
Student spokespeople Andy Vo and Will
Poff-Webster told me that the main theme of
the morning was that “while [the Westboro
Baptists] have a right to present their point
of view, the students have a right to present
theirs also.”
Some students wore white teeshirts on
which they had drawn and lettered messages
of love and definition, talking about what it
means to “be gay.” I spoke with a group of
former BLS students who had learned about
this on Facebook and decided to come back
to their old school to show solidarity with
opposition to hate. Also in the crowd were
parents who expressed pride in how well their
children were responding to this provocation.
Stock up on books for the beach at
The Fenway News book sale!
July 10 on the sidewalk next to
73 Hemenway Street—10 to 3!
A Longfellow Puts His Stamp on the Fens
by Elizabeth Gillis
Waddy was his nickname. His more formal name was Alexander Wadsworth
Longfellow, Jr.
He was part of the renowned Longfellow family, who came from Maine. Uncle
Henry, the poet, was the most famous, but he was not the only talent in the clan. Samuel,
Henry’s brother, was a minister who wrote hymns that are still sung today. Alexander,
Sr. created nautical charts for the United States Coast Survey and with his maps helped
to settle a boundary dispute with Canada.
The Longfellow ladies were not idle either. They created lovely sketches and
watercolors. In fact, all the family members had sketch books and when any of them
traveled, the sketch books went along to record the trip.
Our Alexander was senior draftsman for H. H. Richardson, the architect. Later,
after he had studied at Harvard, MIT and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he worked
with his brother William, an architectural historian.
Alexander designed the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge City Hall, and the elevated
stations on what is now the Orange Line. Those elevated structures were considered the
“architectural pride of Boston.” Those of us who remember them would disagree!
In 1897 when there were no buildings in the West Fens, a small building was
designed by Longfellow on Agassiz Road, which connects the East and West Fens. It was
called the Agassiz Road Shelter, a public restroom. Now we know it as the Duck House.
The small building was made from Cape Ann granite with brown and blue gray tones.
After a fire in 1986, the roof was reconstructed with some of the original slates. The roof
was changed slightly, but the architectural design as a whole was mostly preserved.
It is uncertain why it is called a “duck house,” but in 1895 Edmund Wheelwright, a
well-known architect, had drawn up similar plans for “A shelter and duck house, Back
Bay Fens.”
The city hopes to revive the building for a new use as yet undetermined.
Elizabeth Gillis lives in the West Fenway.

Snapshot of photographer—and volunteer—Val Seabrook

V
By Laura Finaldi and the world, mentioning the mountains in photographer to the FCDC, taking pictures
alarie Seabrook has been all California as one of her favorite places, but of events and even donating her prints as
around the country and the world, the Fenway as her ultimate favorite. either a door prize or an item to be auctioned
Roof Deck but there is no place greater in her Seabrook’s love for the Fenway is clear off. She also does housekeeping chores,
•KENO mind than the Fenway. just in her tone of voice when she speaks such as setting up for events and helping out
Now Open “I like the Fenway because there’s so about her neighborhood. She lives in an in the free computer lab the group runs for
ESPN Game Day
•Memorial Plan many cultures and we do get along. To me it’s
the best,” she said.
apartment with her 8-year-old shitzu, Bootsie, neighborhood residents.
a service dog that Seabrook grooms herself. Sarah Horsley, civic engagement director
Seabrook, an accomplished photo- Seabrook began her photography career for the FCDC, said Seabrook does a lot of
•Draft Specials
to Labor Day! grapher, spiritual adviser and community after getting hit by a truck in 1993 forced
her to quit her job as an investigator for
work on behalf of the agency, encouraging
people to donate to the foundation.
activist, lived in Philadelphia and New Jersey
the Boston police and seek new work. She “She’s really good at kind of getting
•Great seafood before settling in the Fenway in 1983. She
said she has traveled throughout the country was walking to school at the University of people to make sure they’re plugged in
Swing
and on in
steak for
tips Massachusetts in Boston, which used to be at events,” Horsley said. “She’s just very
located on Arlington Street in Park Square, dedicated to the community and this
lunch & enjoy Tavern when she was hit. During her recovery, neighborhood.”
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favorites including Mass Ave Seabrook began volunteering at The Fenway
News and at the Fenway Community
Seabrook is also a reverend for a
nondenominational ministry, where she
interactive
hot dogs for only
television
$1.50 during Red
Lock Co. Development Corporation (FCDC), where she helps advise people on their life struggles, no
would help out with everything from moving
tables and chairs to photographing events.
matter what their religion. She hosts a prayer
circle at her house once a week, where she
Sox Away Games! 24-HOUR Because of that, she was able to put talks to her friends and neighbors about what
EMERGENCY SERVICE together a portfolio, which caught the eye God wants for each of them.
of recruiters at the New England School of “I do one-on-one, I help people. They
BONDED LOCKSMITH Photography, Seabrook said. She was offered have questions in life, they say, ‘Let’s go talk
a scholarship to attend the school, and has with Mother Val’,” Seabrook said.
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have come up to me for advice and I ask them: with people in the community. It’s spiritually
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Fast Food for The Brain? Try ‘Three Masterpieces in Thirty Minutes’

B
By Duke Harten
oston’s Museum of Fine Arts is
huge—too large to absorb in a
single day. For visitors who want
a taste of its finest pieces without
facing the daunting size of its full collection,
the museum offers a lunchtime tour: Three
Masterpieces in Thirty Minutes.
Dorothy Sophocles, associates guides
chair at the museum, said the tour was
intended for art enthusiasts who can’t spare a
full hour for the standard tours given by the
museum.
“The 30 minutes at noon permits visitors
on lunch hour from their work or school to take
in a masterpiece tour,” Sophocles said. “The
format was designed to appeal to all ages.”
Recently, a group of seven visitors
ranging from 18 to 75 followed tour guide
Susan Walling through the museum, studying
several European works.
“It’s a different kind of a tour,” Walling detail,” Walling said.
said. “We want it to be interactive.”
She allowed the group to study the first
painting before explaining its origins.
“What are some of the things you notice
right off?” she prodded.
Kenneth Babic, 75, spoke up: “There’s a
sacrifice in the corner.”
Walling nodded. The painting, she said,
was The Sacrifices of the Old Covenant
by Peter Paul Rubens. It was completed in
1626. She discussed with the
group what made the painting a
masterpiece.
“Rubens was known for
his huge canvases — exuberant
The group was encouraged
to analyze the work’s characters
and actions while Walling gave
a brief account of its history.
The work was commissioned by
Archduchess Isabella of Flanders
and was part of a larger cycle
of paintings known as “The
Triumph of the Eucharist.”
Theresa Polk, a high school
art teacher, commented on the Caption with information about picture to come.
painting’s texture.

In New Book, Junger Turns Restless

Gaze to U.S. Soldiers, Afghan War
By Lisa Fay
Sebastian Junger exposed riveting tales
of combat in a talk about his new book, called
War, at the Boston Public Library on June 8.
Junger explained, “I wanted to be a
writer, but didn’t know what that meant.”
At that time he was 30, having injured his
leg with a chainsaw, cutting trees. However,
Junger was attracted to danger.
He wrote The Perfect Storm, Fire,
and A Death in Belmont before going to
Afghanistan. A contributing editor at Vanity
Fair magazine, he calls the Afghan war the
right war, as there is international support for
rooting out the Taliban regime.
Still, Junger harbored misgivings about
military force, as 400,000 Afghani citizens
have lost their lives due to combat.
Junger reveals the paradox of war. In one
locale, soldiers may see 13 firefights a day,
whereas in other areas of Afghanistan, they
might not see combat for a year. Ironically, the canvas might.
Belmont native remarked, there could be more
journalists killed and no military deaths.
Therefore, Junger decided to be
embedded with the 173rd Airborne Brigade,
taking five one-month trips to the Korengal
Valley—which he says is like Colorado
without rivers and trees—between June 2007
and September 2008
Korengal Valley also includes a six-
mile stretch of treacherous, rugged and
mountainous terrain in eastern Afghanistan
used by Taliban insurgents to attack troops
and smuggle weapons and fighters into
neighboring Pakistan.
70,000 NATO troops were sent to
Afghanistan, Junger reported, adding that
one-fifth of all the combat in Afghanistan
occurred in Korengal Valley against 150
men. The other 69,850 troops were elsewhere
> please turn to WAR on page 7
Walling displayed a full knowledge of here,” Walling said, before allowing the group
Rubens’ style: “That’s the thing about him—he to read the plaque adjacent to the canvas.
was so facile and quick with his brushwork.” Kenneth Babic’s wife, Madge, 73, was
She noted that the piece was oil on wood the first to notice a foot protruding from the
panel, which offers a different look than waves with a broken shackle attached to its
ankle.
The group moved to a second room, Walling explained that the painting was
where Walling spoke about Discovery of an 1840 work by Joseph Mallord William
Achilles on Skyros. Turner. Called “Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing
“I love the European days,” Walling, Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon
said, referring to the museum’s masterpiece Coming On)”, it was intended to decry the
tour schedule: from Tuesday to Friday the inhumanity of international slave trade at the
museum offers Asian, European, American time of its completion.
and ancient art, respectively. The museum’s Sophocles said: “For some
She explained the painting’s origin. It visitors, 30 minutes is all that can be spared
was done by Nicolas Poussin, a French painter from the work or academic day. For others,
active in the seventeenth century. the interactive nature of the tour is very
Comparing him to Rubens, Walling said: exciting and consequently there are several
“He painted in a totally different way. He was repeat visitors to the Masterpiece tours.”
much more academic and classical. They say She said visitors value the guide’s
he used to use little clay figures to get the expertise while enjoying some sense of
composition just right.” sovereignty as they go about the museum,
The final painting that the group enjoying its masterpieces.
analyzed was a large, colorful canvas of a Duke Harten is an undergraduate
fiery ocean and a ship in the distance. student in the Northeastern University School
“See if you can tell me what’s going on of Journalism.

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For them, New wave ended in shipwreck

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by Stephen Brophy
between lenox & stockbridge, ma
rench films don’t collectively earn as much of the world box office receipts as
American films, they have arguably been at least as influential over the course of
cinema history. The world’s first paying audience for moving pictures gathered in
France in 1895. The “New Wave” of the late 1950s to mid-60s (itself influenced by
Italian neorealism) taught the world’s filmmakers how to get out of the studio and onto the keith lockhart michael tilson thomas rafael frühbeck de burgos lisette oropesa hei-kyung hong
streets. And if the crop of recent films in this year’s installment of the MFA’s annual French
Film Festival are any indication, French directors continue to earn the right to be emulated. Boston Pops Boston Pops Concert
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The festival, the 15th, runs July 8-25 and features film by veterans like Claude Chabrol, Concert Join us as we celebrate the 125th anniversary
Claire Denis, Jacques Rivette, François Ozon, Alain Cavalier, Bruno Dumont, and Christophe july 2, fri 8:30Pm of the boston pops with special guests broadway
Honoré, as well as work by up-and-comers. Recent box-office hits (in France) like Little star idina menzel, trumpeter doc severinsen, and
pianist michael chertock.
Nicolas, Heartbreakers, and The French Kissers are on the schedule, and Christian Carion will The Canyon Ranch Concert
show his film, Farewell, on opening night plus discuss it with the audience afterwards. In all,
24 films will grace the Remis Auditorium screen. Opening Night at Boston Symphony Orchestra
michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Since I came of age as a film lover (or cinéaste, if I lived in Paris) about a decade after the Tanglewood layla Claire, soprano
inception of the New Wave, I was particularly interested to see in the line-up a documentary july 9, fri 8:30Pm Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano
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about the movement’s two leading proponents, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. In Two
in the Wave director Emmanuel Laurent shows how these disparate characters came together,
revolutionized French film criticism, and then helped each other make two of the seminal films
in cinema history—The 400 Blows and Breathless.
Fittingly, they met in a movie theater, noticing that they liked to sit in the same row and
attend multiple screenings
of the same films. They
consolidated this part of
their relationship at the
Cinèmathéque Française,
Paris’s astounding film
museum. Along with
other young friends like
Claude Chabrol and
Jacques Rivette, they
started writing criticism
for Cahiers du Cinema, a
journal founded by André
Bazin, himself possibly
the most influential film
critic ever. The “Young
Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, while they were Turks,” as they were called,
still friends. Image provided by the MFA’s Film Program developed such a harsh
critique of the prevailing
French film style that Truffaut was banned from the Cannes Film Festival in 1957. But he was
back a year later, collecting the Grand Prize for The 400 Blows.
Soon after, Truffaut helped Godard get Breathless produced and exhibited, and world
cinema was never the same. Two in the Wave traces the shared work of these two friends over
the next decade, and documents how their friendship fell apart. Poignant use is made of the
experience of the young actor Jean-Pierre Leaud, the star of The 400 Blows, who enjoyed
working with both directors and became one of the bones of their contention. We see Truffaut
and Godard work together to restore the Cinèmathéque director to his job after he was fired
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, john Oliver, conductor
mahler symphony no. 2, Resurrection
All-Beethoven Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Program Gerhard Oppitz, piano
july 10, sat 8:30Pm all-beethoVen program
King Stephen overture; piano concerto no. 3;
symphony no. 5
The Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers Concert
Zukerman Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
plays mozart Pinchas Zukerman, violin
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Stravinsky Boston Symphony Orchestra
michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
and mozart Soile Isokoski, soprano
july 16, fri 8:30Pm Kristine jepson, mezzo-soprano
Russell Thomas, tenor
jordan Bisch, bass
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, john Oliver, conductor
straVinsky Symphony of Psalms
moZart requiem
mahler: Tanglewood music Center Orchestra
Symphony No. 3
michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
july 17, sat 8:30Pm Women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, john Oliver, conductor
American Boychoir, Fernando malvar-Ruiz, music director
mahler symphony no. 3
The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
The 2010 Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert is supported by generous
endowments established in perpetuity by Dr. Raymond and Hannah H.
Schneider, and Diane H. Lupean.
Boston Pops Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith lockhart, conductor
Orchestra with Arlo Guthrie, special guest

by France’s culture minister (in the process shutting down the 1968 Cannes festival), and then special guest Alec Baldwin, narrator
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, john Oliver, conductor
see and hear the final letters between them as they renounce their friendship. Truffaut died in Arlo Guthrie Program to include
BOYER/AHRENS The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers
1994; Godard is still making movies. july 18, sun 2:30Pm (commissioned for the Boston Pops 125th Anniversary)
Laurent makes all this interesting with a framing device—an attractive and studious
young woman who pores over the back issues of Cahiers and looks at old pictures of the All-mozart Boston Symphony Orchestra
johannes Debus, conductor
directors, which sets up the movie clips and other archival footage through which the story is Program lisette Oropesa, soprano (Konstanze)
told. If you want to become a cinéaste, or think you are one already, you must see this film. It july 23, fri 8:30Pm Ashley Emerson, soprano (Blonde)
Eric Cutler, tenor (Belmonte)
screens on Friday, July 16, at 6 p.m. and the following day at 1:30 p.m. For information on the Anthony Stevenson, tenor (Pedrillo)
festival, visit www.mfa.org/calendar. morris Robinson, bass (Osmin)
Tanglewood music Center Vocal Fellows
moZart The Abduction from the Seraglio
Concert performance; sung in German with English supertitles
> WAR from page 6 faster than the speed of sound. “Then comes All-Brahms Boston Symphony Orchestra
in Afghanistan. Nearly 70% of the bombs a flurry of sick little snaps and the inevitable Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
dropped in Afghanistan were in the Korengal
Program Peter Serkin, piano
staccato sound in the distance.” He likened all-brahms program
Valley. “They don’t put bad groups in bad the sound to rubber bands popping against a july 24, sat 8:30Pm piano concerto no. 1
symphony no. 2
situations,” Junger noted. plastic bag.
The Jean Thaxter Brett Memorial Concert
He described the paradox of Afghani The author mentioned Doc Juan
people. They loved when the Americans freed Restrepo, who bled from shots in the face in All-Strauss Boston Symphony Orchestra
them, but at the same the village cemetery. He Hans Graf, conductor
Program lynn Harrell, cello
time, hated foreigners in would play guitar when Steven Ansell, viola
july 25, sun 2:30Pm
their country, particularly the men were depressed r. strauss Don Quixote
Joh. strauss ii overture to Die Fledermaus;
the Korengalis, who are or take their shifts when Amid Thunder and Lightning, polka; Roses From the South, Waltz;
related to the people of they were sick. Restrepo Annen-Polka; At the Hunt, polka; Emperor-Waltzes
Nuristan. was so well-respected Joh. strauss Radetzky march
He tells the stories that the soldiers named The Beatrice M. Cabot Memorial Concert
from the soldiers’ point an outpost after him.
of view. The men existed
Glinka, Tchaikovsky Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sergeant Brendan Charles Dutoit, conductor
with no women, alcohol, O’Byrne told Junger,
and Prokofiev Kirill Gerstein, piano
glinka overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
sports, no Internet, no “People back home think july 30, fri 8:30Pm tchaikoVsky piano concerto no. 1
running water, no phone. we drink because of the prokofieV suite from Romeo and Juliet
The weather was both bad stuff, but that’s not The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert
hot and cold in the valley, true…we drink because
with the area infested we miss the good stuff.”
Berg, Strauss Boston Symphony Orchestra
juanjo mena, conductor
with tarantulas, scor- The good stuff is being and mahler Hei-Kyung Hong, soprano
berg three pieces for orchestra
pions, and flies. They responsible for others. july 31, sat 8:30Pm strauss four last songs
fought boredom by trying It is not the addiction to mahler symphony no. 4
to be both funny and vulgar at the same time. combat but the connection to other that drives The Linde Family Concert in honor of Edward H. Linde
“Who will die today?” they often joked. Fake these men.
tarantulas were often thrown. Junger concluded, “When men say they Friday-night lawn: $9*
photo id SEASON GRASS PASS; $250, valid for lawn admission to bso and pops classical concerts only. also available,
The worst part, I think, is not having miss combat, it is not that they actually miss a photo id BERKSHIRE RESIDENT SEASON lAWN PASS; $75 lawn admission for year-round berkshire residents. some
a shower or a change of clothing for over a getting shot at—you’d have to be deranged— blackout dates apply. *except 7/2 and 7/9
month. Ugh! it’s that they miss being in a world where box office is open from 10am–6pm, mon–sat, through intermission on event days, and 10am–intermission on sunday.
ACCESSIBlE SEATING accessible seats are available. please contact our access services administrator at 617-638-9431,
Junger, who is 47, embedded with men everything is important and nothing is taken tdd/tty 617-638-9289.
young enough to be his sons and who often for granted. They miss being in a world where no refunds or exchanges. all programs and artists are subject to change. free parking. subject to a $5.50 handling fee.
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teased him about giving him a heart attack. human relations are entirely governed by
He likened himself to a babysitter up to no whether you can trust the other person with
good or a dorm counselor. your life.” 888-266-1200 l tanglewood.org
Strange as it sounds, Junger once Junger left me feeling that War is a tough
revealed he didn’t know when they are being boston symphony orchestra
but must-read book.
fired at. The bullets from an AK-47 shoot james levine music director The Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Lisa Fay lives in the West Fenway. is proud to support Tanglewood and its education
initiatives for Massachusetts students.
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Fri, Jul 2-Thu, Jul 9: It’s the last week of
“Beside Ourselves,” an annual exhibit that
offers a taste of the art created through
the Museum School’s continuing educa-
tion art courses and workshops. The juried
exhibition features 55 works—from draw-
ing, metals and photography to animation,
painting, sculpture and more—by over 40
artists of all ages. Grossman Gallery, 230
the Fenway; special hours: Mon–Thur,
11 am–7 pm; Fri 10 am–5 pm. For more
information, visit www.smfa.edu/
+ exhibitions or call 617-369-3644.
FREE
Fri, Jul 2: New England Conservatory Jazz
Trio opens the Concert in the Courtyard
series at the Boston Public Library in
Copley Square. Jazz vocalist Emily Wolf
is joined by guitarist Will Graefe, bassist
Oliver Watkinson, and drummer Moses
Eder. They have studied with musicians
such as Dominique Eade, Ran Blake, Jerry
Bergonzi, and George Garzone, and will
perform jazz standards, ballads, and blues.
The concert continue through August; see
+ the schedule at www.bpl.org/news/
concerts.htm. 12:30 p.m. FREE
Sun, Jul 4: Butterflies and BBQ in the
Sat, Jul 10: The Fenway News holds a sum-
mer book sale next to 73 Hemenway St.
Paperbacks $1, hard covers $2. Proceeds
support the oldest nonprofit community
newspaper in Boston. If the weather is in-
clement, we’ll move to the community room
at 73 Hemenway (enter from the park side of
the building). 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Sat, Jul 10: Sargent’s Murals in the Museum
of Fine Arts. Boston has a rich selection of
John Singer Sargent’s work, but many critics
consider his MFA murals the capstone of
his career. This gallery talk, let by Lillian
Gould, focuses on Singer’s work in the
Museum’s rotunda. Meet in the Sharf
Visitor Center, noon-1 p.m. Included with
Museum admission.
Sun, Jun 11: Berklee Tower of Power
Ensemble Concert. With some of Berklee’s
top students, this 17-piece ensemble—
famous for its high-powered performances
and tight ensemble work—performs the
funk and R&B of Tower of Power. Five
vocalists front seven horns and a five-
piece rhythm section. 7:00 p.m., Berklee
+ Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave.
FREE
Wed, Jul 14: Celebrating its 10th year,
the Boston Landmarks Orchestra kicks
of a summer-long festival at the Hatch
Shell with a performance of Beethoven’s
Available to seniors 60 and over, the Rest playground is located down the stairs
program includes trainer-supervised from the Boylston Street Bridge in the Back
exercise sessions, a trainer-supervised Bay Fens. Picnics and folding chairs are
Yoga class, a health seminar, and periodic encouraged, and the event is wheelchair
consultations with a nutritionist.
Hospitality begins at 2:30 PM; program at + accessible. Rain date: Wednesday, July
28. FREE
3:15; refreshments and socializing until Mon, Jul 26: Randy Felts and visiting
5:30 PM; $2 donation at the door. For vocalist/composer Ron McPhatter present
more information, call 617-447-2344; visit an evening of classic and modern R&B at
Roxbury Answers Sundance, July 29-31
The term “film festival” may conjure up images of Hollywood stars and Joan
Rivers dissing everyone on the red
carpet, but the 12th Annual Roxbury
International Film Festival (RIFF)
will feel a lot more home-grown and
accessible. Beginning July 29, it runs
through the weekend at five Fenway-
friendly locations: The MFA, Mass.
College of Art, Wentworth Institute
of Technology, Roxbury Center
for the Arts (184 Dudley Street in
historic Hibernian Hall), and the
Haley House Cafe, also in Dudley
Square. This year’s schedule features
more than 50 films, including local
director Robert Patton-Spruill’s Do It
Again, a documentary about Boston
Globe critic Geoff Edgers’s quixotic
quest to reunite the British band The

Photographer Jacob Okada

Victory Gardens. For details, see front
page.
Thu, Jul 8: Picasso and Braque Go to the
Movies. This 2008 documentary explores
the influence of technology—specifically
aviation and the creation of cinema—on
artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
With narration by Martin Scorsese (who
produced) and interviews with scholars
and artists, including Chuck Close and
Julian Schnabel, the film looks at the col-
lision between film and art at the dawn of
the 20th century. Remis Auditorium, Mu-
seum of Fine Arts, 3:30 p.m. $6-$7
Thu, Jul 8: “Boomers’ Night Out.” If you’re
50+ and would like to relive some of the
wonderful movies of the 1960s, come to
the Peterborough Senior Center for the
first of several biweekly screenings. The
series kicks off with the Beatles in A Hard
+ Day’s Night (1964). Details below in
the Senior Calendar. 7 p.m. FREE
9th Symphony. Weekly concerts,
focused on Beethoven, will continue
through the summer on the Esplanade.
For more information, visit www.
+ LandmarksOrchestra.org or call 617-
520-2200. 7 p.m. FREE
Thu, Jul 15: Eclectic Massachusetts band
Live Radio, performs at Summer Concerts
on the Plaza at One Brigham Circle.
The show starts at 6:30 p.m. and runs
approximately two hours. On July 29, local
band Skye headlines. For more information,
contact Mission Hill Neighborhood
Housing Services at 617-566-6565, or visit
+ http://missionhillnhs.org. 1620
Tremont St. FREE
Sat, Jul 17: Monthly meeting of Boston
Prime Timers, an educational, cultural and
social support network for mature gay and
bisexual men. AIDS Action Committee’s
Emerson Miller will explain the PALS
Program (Positive Aging, Lasting Strength).
Kinks. Other activities include acting
workshops, a conversation with Peter
Allen and Latoyia Edwards, Youth
Day programs, and the popular
“Dinner and a Movie” night at Haley
House. Image from the film Off and Running.
RIFF is co-produced by The Color of
Film Collaborative and ACT Roxbury, a program of Madison Park Development
Corporation. To purchase festival passes and for more information on guests,
panels, and other festival events, visit www.roxburyfilmfestival.org.
www.bostonprimetimers.org, or email Berklee, featuring new songs written by the
pair, a selection of new songs by McPhatter,
bostonprimetimers@uses.org.
and a couple of classics as recorded
Wed, Jul 21: Mothers Rest welcomes
its 12th summer concert at 6:00
by the Drifters (featuring McPhatter’s
father, Clyde McPhatter, a member of the
p.m., courtesy of Berklee College of Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame). A 12-piece
Music, Fenway Civic Association,
ensemble blending faculty and Boston-area
and ParkARTS. Swingin’ in Mothers
professionals will assist. Many Berklee
Rest feature renowned world music
faculty will contribute their talents, as well.
performers Christiane Karam & the
ZilZALA Ensemble and Gian Aurelio + 7:30 p.m., David Friend Recital Hall,
921 Boylston Street. FREE.
Faraone and his Quartet. The Mothers

line Ave., Annex Bldg., Rm 3D. For info,

Tue, Jul 6: Christian Science Plaza
Revitalization CAC working session, 8-10
a.m., Christian Science Publishing House,
210 Mass Ave. (use Monitor entrance)
For more info, email ines.palmarin.bra@
cityofboston.gov
Wed, Jul 7: Fenway liaison for Mayor’s
Office of Neighborhood Services, William
Onuoha, holds office hours: 3:30-5:30
p.m. YMCA, 316 Huntington Ave. No
appointment necessary.
Thu, Jul 15: Congressman Capuano’s
representative holds office hours: 4-5 p.m.
Fenway Health Center, 1340 Boylston St.
Fri, Jul 16: Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz’s
representative holds East Fens office
Hours: 8-9 a.m. Expresso Royale Cafe,
44 Gainsboro St. For more info, call
Stephanie Everett at 617-722-1673 or
email her at stephanie.everett@state.
ma.us.
Sat, Jul 17: Celebration of Lisa Rein-
Woisin’s Life. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Peterborough
Senior Center. For more info, call 617-536-
7154, Mon-Thurs, 9:30-2 p.m. Refresh-
ments.
Tue, Jul 20: East Fens Community/Police
Meeting, 6 p.m. Morville House, 100
Norway St.
Tue, Jul 20: Audubon Circle Neighbor-
hood Association board meeting, 6:30-
8:30 p.m., Harvard Vanguard, 131 Brook-
call 617-262-0657.
Tue, Jul 20: Ward 4 Democratic
Committee meets to endorse statewide
candidates for office. 6:30 p.m., South End
Public Library, 685 Tremont St.
Wed, Jul 21: Fenway liaison for Mayor’s
Office of Neighborhood Services, William
Onuoha, holds office hours: 3:30-5:30
p.m. YMCA, 316 Huntington Ave. No
appointment necessary.
Wed, Jul 21: West Fens Community/Police
Meeting, 5 p.m. Landmark Center (corner
of Park Drive & Brookline Ave.), 2nd
fl, District 4 Police substation (next to
security desk).
Wed, Jul 21: Swingin’ in Mother’s Rest,
concert co-sponsored by Berklee Col-
lege of Music, City of Boston Park ARTS
program and Fenway Civic Assoc., 6 p.m.
Mother’s Rest park just across from Bos-
ton Conservatory. Bring a lawn chair or
blanket and picnic. RAIN DATE: Jul 28.
Mon, Jul 26: Longwood Medical Area
Forum, 6:30-8 p.m. For location or to
verify that meeting will be held, email
Laura at lfogerty@masco.harvard.edu.
Tue, Jul 27: Symphony Neighborhood
Task Force, 6 p.m. TENTATIVE. To verify
that meeting will be held and/or, location,
call Councilor Mike Ross’s office, 617-
635-4225.
The following events take place at the
Peterborough Senior Center, located two
blocks from Boylston between 100 and 108
Jersey St. (walk down the alley and look left).
For more information, call 617-536-7154.
Recurring
Mondays
• 9:30 a.m: Breakfast Club with Matti
• 11:30 a.m: Film—July 5, Center closed;
July 12, Ace in the Hole (1951); July 19, Last
Tango in Paris (1972); July 26, As Good as
It Gets (1997)
• 2:15 p.m: Yoga
Tuesdays
• 11 a.m: Exercise with Mahmoud
• 12 noon: Documentaries—July 6, A Mighty
Wind (2003); July 13, Arctic Tale (2007);
May 20, The TAMI Show (1964); July 27,
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005)
Wednesdays
• 9:30 a.m: Yoga with Julie
• 10 a.m.-noon: Blood pressure check with
Joyce
Thursdays
10 a.m: Knitting with Nan
SPECIAL EVENTS
Jul 1:
• 10 a.m. How to Eat Healthy and Cheap
• noon: Barbecue with Matti; potluck
desserts
Jul 5: Center closed for Fourth of July
Jul 6: 10 a.m. Planning meeting
Jul 7: 11 a.m. Short stories by Yukio
Mishima and Tim O’Brien—discussion
Jul 8:
• 10 a.m. How to Eat Healthy and Cheap
• noon: Lunch
• 7 p.m. Boomers Night Out—A Hard Days
Night (1964)
Jul 13: 10 a.m. Senior Task Force
Jul 14: noon. Art class with Bill and Olga
Jul 15: 8:30 a.m. Gloucester trip—beach and
lunch
Jul 21:
• 11 a.m. Short stories by Chinua Achebe
and Nadine Gordimer—discussion
• noon. Lunch and July birthdays.
Jul 22:
• 10:30 a.m. Take a walk somewhere in
Boston, with lunch.
• 7 p.m. Boomers Night Out—Cool Hand
Luke (1967)
Jul 25: no yoga today
Jul 28: Current Events with Suzanne
Jul 29:
• 10 a.m. How to Eat Healthy and Cheap
• 11:45 a.m. What are our thoughts about
relationships? Discussion with Penina