Join the Boston Preservation Alliance Young Advisors, in partnership with the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Franklin Park Defenders, and historian Ethan Carr, for a walking tour of Franklin Park, Boston’s largest public park and a beloved site for community celebration, recreation, and urban respite.
Today, Franklin Park and its surrounding communities are presented with renewed opportunity but also face major threats, many of which echo the same official neglect and disregard that defined the twentieth century. This walking tour will explore the park’s history, its relationship to the adjacent communities of Roxbury, Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain, and the present-day challenges that threaten its continued role as a beloved community space.
