Fall Community Day: Sunday October 6, 11-2.
Each spring and fall the Friends organize work parties to remove the trash, and invasive plants and restore the sanctuary with new plantings. The 2024 Fall Community Day will be Sunday October 6, 11-2.
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Hall’s Pond I-Spy for Spring 2024
As you walk around the sanctuary, can you see us?
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Spring Bird Walks at Hall’s Pond
Three consecutive Mondays -April 29, May 6, and May 13, 7:00 to 8:30 AM Friends of Hall’s Pond will conduct guided bird walks timed for spring migration, on an easy half-mile loop, led by Neil Gore. Whether it’s sunny, cloudy, or light rain!
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2014 Annual Meeting Highlights
June 16, 2014, At the Annual Meeting we were treated to a superb presentation by historian Susan Helms Daley who shared her continuing research on Minna Hall’s partner in the creation of the Massachusetts Audubon Society entitled “Who Was Harriet Hemenway.”
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2010 Annual Meeting Highlights
June 16, 2010, Friends of Hall’s Pond Service Awards and A Presentation by Priscilla Geigis, Assistant Commissioner and Director of the Division of State Parks and Recreation at the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
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2009 Annual Meeting Highlights
June 10, 2009, Debbie Raptopoulos, a long term supporter and board member of The Friends of Hall’s Pond Sanctuary, gave a memorable review honoring Nancy and Ferris Hall at the June Annual Meeting of The Friends of Hall’s Pond.
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2008 Annual Meeting Highlights
Monday, June 16, 2008, New and old Friends gathered together at the Annual Meeting of the Friends of Hall’s Pond on June 16, 2008. The Friends awarded the MIT Epsilon Theta Fraternity an Outstanding Service Award.
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2007 Annual Meeting Highlights
Our good friend and advocate, Barbara Mackey, retired from our board in Spring, 2006 after years of loyal service. The Friends honored Barbara at our Annual Meeting on June 11, 2007.
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2001 Annual Meeting Highlights
Joan W. Goodwin was honored at the Friends’ annual meeting in March 2001.
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“A Plan for Hall’s Pond Sanctuary” (PDF)
Prepared for Brookline Conservation Commission Town of Brookline, Massachusetts
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Friends of Hall’s Pond
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Thank you for joining us for the 40th Anniversary Celebration and Annual Meeting
Please join us for a very special 40th Anniversary Celebration and Annual Meeting
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Sunday, June 12, 2016 3 – 5 pm
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Bird Walk Observations
Birds year round at Hall’s Pond include many regulars. Herring Gulls overhead. Starlings, Pigeons and Mourning Doves on the ball-field. Bright-red Cardinals wheet-wheeting in the trees, House Sparrows chirping in the bushes. The local Red-tailed Hawk being pestered by crows and jays.
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Fall/Winter 2014 Newsletter
2014 was busy all year long, and with the May 4th Community Day, the May 18 dedication of the Eris Doorneweerd Entry to the Sanctuary, and the June 16 Annual Meeting (featuring historian Susan Helms Daley’s presentation “Who Was Harriet Hemenway”) the Friends have been active not only in the sanctuary but also out in the community on behalf of the sanctuary.
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