WEWCA to meet July 10
The West End Civic Association (WECA) will meet on Thursday July 10, at 6:00pm in the Community Room of the Amy Lowell Apartments, 65 Martha Road.
Guests will be candidates running for the four councilor-at-large seats in the September 9, 2025 Preliminary Municipal election.
All West End residents are welcome. Bring your voice to West End concerns! Masks are encouraged.
The Advent School advocate for the African Meeting House
Second Grade students at the Advent School in Boston met with State Representative John Moran this week to raise awareness and advocate for the African Meeting House, which is facing a significant drop in federal funding.
The students, along with teachers Emily Guterman and Bridget Parker, visited the Meeting House on a field trip as part of ongoing research and investigation into their classroom theme, “Changemakers and Social Movements.” The visit made such an impact on them, they were motivated to use their collective voices to help. In addition to meeting with Representative Moran (Suffolk 9th District), the students created a letter appealing to the broader community.
We are Second grade students at the Advent School in Boston. This year our class has been studying Changemakers and Social Movements. We have learned all about how social movements are formed and groups of people can come together to make change happen. We are writing to you with a big problem that you may be able to help with. The African Meeting House in Beacon Hill is losing much of its federal funding which is critical for the museum to stay open and be able to share the important history of the Abolitionist movement with the public and kids like us.
On our visit to the meeting house we learned so much about the people and artifacts that were such important parts of this movement. We saw a real copy of the Liberator newspaper and stood in the same room that housed the first public school in the country for African American children. We walked parts of the Black Heritage trail and even had the chance to stand on the same pulpit as Fredrick Douglass and share what freedom means to us.
This field trip made a huge impact on us and helped us better understand this important part of our country’s history. We think it’s really important to do what we can to help support the African Meeting House and use our voices to ask for your help.
Upcoming programming offered by West End Museum
The West End Museum, located at 150 Staniford St., Suite 7,
will offer ‘Now is the Hour: A Tribute to Buddy Clark’ on Sunday, June 29, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at The Hub on Causeway Community Room at 52 Causeway St.
This musical tribute celebrates the life and legacy of West Ender Buddy Clark, one of the golden voices of the 1930s and ‘40s performed live by talented vocalist Dan Gabel, accompanied by Josiah Reibstein and The Hubtones.
Visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1359635720039?aff=oddtdtcreator for more information and tickets.
The museum will also host ‘Boston Sports and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equity’ – a lecture by Dr. Mark Herlihy of Endicott College on the athletes who pioneered diversity and inclusion in Boston sports – on Wednesday, July 9, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $12.51 each and available at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-sports-and-the-struggle-for-racial-and-gender-equity-tickets.
FCNY was awarded $81,500 from MassDEP
The Friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard is excited to be a recipient of a Massachusetts Department of Transportation Trust Fund Grant to support improvements to the Harborview dock in the Navy Yard. The improvements will include updating the water transportation signage and improve wayfinding along the Harborwalk. We would like to thank Councilor Gabriela Coletta Zapata, Representative Dan Ryan, and Senator Sal DiDomenico for their support. It is our hope that these improvements will help stimulate demand, increase ridership, create more water transportation options on Boston Harbor, and better connect all of the waterfront neighborhoods whether it be for work or recreation.” – Michael Parker, Chair FCNY.