In celebration of National Poetry Monthwe are posting a poem a day. If you have a favorite, please email it to frank@mytownmatters.com.
Baseball by John Updike
It looks easy from a distance,
easy and lazy, even,
until you stand up to the plate
and see the fastball sailing inside,
From May 9th through the end of the month, local painter Diane Sawyer will display her work in the Wotiz Gallery of the Milton Public Library. She received a BFA from the Boston Museum School and Tufts University in 1979, and has completed additional coursework at MassArt, Museum School, and Bennington College. She has also studied with numerous artists.
The Wakefield Estate’s April Stone Soup and Speaker event on April 30th will offer a portrait of one of the estate’s pride and joy: the Dove Tree. Not commonly seen in most gardens, the dove tree or Davidii involucrata , is also known as the handkerchief or ghost tree because of its large white “handkerchief”
by Frank Schroth
The Milton View, a local online site from Phil Matthews, provides commentary and analysis of Milton. There is a recent post that looks at key economic metrics across a number of communities to illustrate where Milton ranks in comparison to other towns.
Join Maria Trozzi for a presentation on Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 7pm in the Pierce Middle School Auditorium. Participate in an interactive and enlightening conversation about the new stresses of parenting our children today and evidence-based strategies for building resilience. Parents of young children often worry that if they are not doing everything as parents, they are doing nothing.
Twenty-three restaurants under one roof on one night for a great cause. If you have been before, you know this is an event to savor. If you haven’t yet made it to Taste of Dorchester, this is the year.
In celebration of National Poetry Month we are posting a poem a day. Today’s poem was submitted by Annie Davis who notes, “The anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is observed as Yom Ha’Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Hebrew word shoah means catastrophe. This year, Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed beginning at sunset of Wednesday, April 15th and continues through Thursday, April 16th.” If you have a favorite poem (or two) send it along to frank@mytownmatters.com.
Holocaust by Barbara Sonek
We played, we laughed
we were loved.
We were ripped from the arms of our
parents and thrown into the fire.
On Sunday, April 19, at 10 am, St. Michael’s Episcopal Church honors Earth Day by inviting children to participate in an engaging and informative celebration of clean water! Join church school leader Marilyn Cheney, her daughter and environmentalist Claire Cheney, and her son, Emmy-nominated and award-winning documentary filmmaker Ian Cheney,
At 2 PM, Saturday, May 2nd, the Milton Public Library will host a one-hour concert with the Quincy Choral Society. A number of Milton residents will perform in a program called “Swingin’ into Spring!” This will feature the music of George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, and Jimmy Van Heusen.
Spring is here – and so are fun things for kids to do at the Milton Public Library! In addition to our regular storytimes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we have this exciting program for the young people in your life happening during the week of April 26 – May 2: