“As a park, it’s an impertinence. Who ever heard of a park seven row houses wide, enclosed rather sketchily by low brick walls?” That is how Sara Azrael in 1958, writing for the Roland Park Company’s Gardens, Houses and People magazine, characterized the little Bolton Hill garden now known as John Street Park.
With a great burst of new year optimism, the BHCA Greening Committee is calling attention to a wide array of 2021 outdoor activities for neighborhood parks, along with a new map that pinpoints where each park is located.
A volunteer team from Home Depot worked on and provided materials for a spruce up at Congressional Medal of Honor Park, on Nov. 20.
Beginning in July, Neal Friedlander, Doug Kelso and Lee Tawney undertook a census of the neighborhood parks and gardens and are doing an update to the city survey of tree wells, the spaces alongside sidewalks where trees exist.
A Veterans Day Program will be held on Wed., Nov. 11 at 11:00 am in Congressional Medal of Honor Park on Bolton Hill’s southern edge.
Plans are underway for a major renovation of Contee-Parago Park, at the southern end of the neighborhood at Bolton Street between Dolphin Street and Dolphin Lane.
In a time when many surely miss the opportunity to go to Oriole Park at Camden Yards this summer and watch our Orioles engage in our national pastime, it seems like a good time for the baseball-starved fan to reflect on the rich history of baseball in Baltimore.
The City Parks and Recreation Department is accepting applications for gardens in Druid Hill and 10 other parks around the city.
All you need to know about composting
Christina Garrrahan and Compost Crew are working on bringing composting to the city and setting up pickup and processing sustainable systems.
