Play Reading: ‘Sophia Hayden Deserves Better’

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…

JPHS Tour of Monument Square

Tour a residential area that includes a National Historic District. View architecture that spans three centuries; the oldest community theater company in the United States; and an elegant 18th-century mansion that once served as the country’s first military hospital. Learn about the monument that commemorates fallen Civil War soldiers from West Roxbury and about Pauline Agassiz Shaw who established the class that became the model for free, public kindergarten education. We will visit a house…

Eliot Schoolyard Concert: Phil Sargent & Brian Friedland

Date: August 21 Time: 4:00-5:30pm Venue: Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts, 24 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain Guitarist Phil Sargent joins pianist Brian Friedland for jazz improvisation with a “boundary-pushing,” “modernist” bent. Jazz Review says, "Sargent’s musicality is asymmetrical parts beauty and power. He also incorporates melodic hooks into the mix, where superior technique, cunning interactions, memorable song-forms and seething solo jaunts attain a near-flawless symmetrical presence.” Friedland's music has been described as "inspirationally crafted,…

Garden Blues Concert

Minton Stable Community Garden 110 Williams St., Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Close out the summer with a beautiful night of music and dancing! Guitarist and vocalist Willie J. Laws and pianist Bruce Mattson bring a unique blend of funk, blues, and jazz to Minton Stable Garden in JP on Thursday, August 25 from 5-7PM. Local beer and wine will also be available for purchase. This is a family event, and kids are free! Tickets & more info at https://thetrustees.org/event/78782/. Walk-ins also welcome. BYO chairs, blankets, picnics,…

JPHS Tour of Sumner Hill

Developed as a suburb by General William Hyslop Sumner in the mid-nineteenth century, this National Historic District includes one of the finest collections of Victorian houses in the area. The tour includes the ancestral home of the Dole Pineapple Company founder as well as the homes of progressives who were active as abolitionists and women suffragists. Leaves from Loring-Greenough House, 12 South St. Click here to see photographs for the Sumner Hill tour. Developed as…

Eliot Schoolyard Concert: Trio Let’s Vamos

Date: August 28 Time: 4:00-5:30pm Venue: Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts, 24 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain Trio Let’s Vamos is a unique Brazilian-American musical collaboration playing Forró Pé-de-Serra, featuring rhythms such as baião, xaxado and samba. Forró became famous in the 1940s and ‘50s with tunes steeped in the stories and culture of Brazil’s arid Northeast, the Sertão. Accordion, voice and percussion play melodies influenced by the vocal calls sung by cowboys herding cattle…

Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter

First Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain 633 Centre St, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Before heading into the long Labor Day Weekend, please join us for the September 1 Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter, with speaker Mark Scott, Director of the Division of Violence Prevention at the Boston Public Health Commission and President of the Board of Directors, Massachusetts Coalition to prevent gun violence. Following his remarks will be a “call and response” reading of names of victims of racist violence and a 20-minute standout along Centre…

JPHS Tour of Stony Brook (in English y Español)

Jamaica Plain Historical Society Tour of Stony Brook (in English y Español) Explore a fascinating industrial area at the geographic heart of Boston that includes 19th-century tannery and brewery buildings, the homes of early German settlers, and today’s Boston Beer Company, the brewers of Samuel Adams. In the 1970s, a coalition of community groups joined together to block construction of the Southwest Expressway through Jamaica Plain and other Boston neighborhoods. Today, the Southwest Corridor Park…

JPHS Tour of Hyde Square (in English y Español)

Jamaica Plain Historical Society Tour of Hyde Square Learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood with their businesses, schools, and institutions. See how in the early 1960s, Hyde Square changed again when Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants transformed it into Boston’s first predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. This tour also takes us to the home of Maud Cuney Hare, a prominent music historian and one of only two black women…

Roger House’s Block Party Fundraiser

Rogerson House's Block Party Fundraiser will be on Sept. 11 from 11 am to 2 pm at 434 Jamaicaway. Proceeds Support Team Rogerson House's Walk to End Alzheimer's Fundraising Efforts

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