Starting Monday, March 10: Amelia Szymkowicz Pictures from Hall’s Pond Photo Gallery Brookline Bank
A breathtaking photo journey exploring the wildlife that inhabits Brookline’s jewel box Conservation Sanctuary, Hall’s Pond. Starting Monday, March 10, at Coolidge Corner, 1324 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02446. Sponsored by Arts Brookline and Brookline Bank.
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2024 December Newsletter
HALL’S POND continues to amaze, amuse and entertain us with its cycle of seasonal changes. If 2023 was marked by abundant summer rains, 2024 was drier and ended in a mild drought. The Sanctuary remained nonetheless exuberantly green. Our flora and fauna cycled through the seasons, and we had regular visits from blue herons and cormorants.
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“She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!” Illustrated Book (PDF)
Minna Hall and Harriet Hemenway, two very well bred Boston ladies, decide that something must be done. Fashionable ladies are parading around town with dead birds on their hats! So Minna and Harriet gather together the most prominent women and men in town and form a club to protect the birds. Thus is born the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
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Fall 2004 Newsletter
Hall’s Pond Sanctuary and the adjacent neighborhood, Cottage Farm, are part of the National Register of Historic Places (1978) and the first local (Brookline) historic district (1979). The Sanctuary, located behind 1120 Beacon Street, is administered by the Conservation Commission with financial and maintenance support by the Friends of Hall’s Pond. The Friends group has been a model for more than a dozen subsequent “ friends” organizations in the Town which support a variety of neighborhood sanctuaries, parks, gardens, woods, and playgrounds. An extensive restoration of the Sanctuary was completed in 2002, at which time Hall’s Pond (3.5 acres) was combined with the adjacent Amory Woods parcel (1.6 acres).
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About the Friends
The Friends partners with the Conservation Commission as stewards of the sanctuary. Their initiatives include Community Work Days, tending the Formal Garden and raising funds for the Horticultural Fund.
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Bird Walks at Hall’s Pond
Please check back in the Spring for dates. 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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Sanctuary Work Plan
In 2009, The Commission, the Town Parks & Open Space Division, and the Friends of Hall’s Pond volunteer group developed this work plan to guide ongoing collaboration, to preserve and protect the sanctuary, and to express a management approach based on respect for wildlife areas as natural habitat.
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Spring 2004 Newsletter
This is the first of a series of historic vignettes relating to Hall’s Pond Sanctuary and the neighborhood surrounding it, Cottage Farm.
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Things to See
The sanctuary is used for habitat for plants and animals, environmental education and passive exploration.
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Photographs
Photographs: Pond Birds, Amory Woods; Garden Sanctuary
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September / October 2003 Newsletter
Hall’s Pond is one of two natural ponds remaining in Brookline. Purchased by the Town in 1975, Hall’s Pond is historically significant for having been owned by Minna Hall, a co-founder of the Massachusetts Audubon Society in 1896. The Hall’s Pond area has long been valued in Brookline for its open space qualities.
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