Join Jamaica Plain History Society on Zoom for a reading of the play Sophia Hayden Deserves Better by Stephanie Alison Walker. In 1891 a brilliant 23-year-old woman from Jamaica Plain won an architecture contest to design the Woman’s Building for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. What should have been the start to a flourishing career in architecture became career-ending. Throughout the two-year process of building The Woman’s Building, the architect quietly endured bullying, micromanaging…

Over the last two decades, JPNDC, Urban Edge and The Community Builders have developed hundreds of affordable homes in the Jackson Sq. neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. Part of this work includes the creation of a new Greenway and a new plaza that will improve the quality of life of thousands of residents across the city. Please join us on Thursday, August 11, at 6pm, for a follow-up community meeting for the Jackson Sq. Greenway. This is…