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WEST ROXBURY MDC STILL EYEING BROOK FARM DUKAKIS BUDGET PLAN WILL CARRY $3M TO BID FOR LONG-SOUGHT PARCEL
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Brook Farm in West Roxbury, once home to a 19th-century utopian
community and now the last large tract of undeveloped land in
Boston, may yet be purchased by the state despite years of delays.
The 175-acre site, located on Baker Street near VFW Parkway,
is owned by the Lutheran Service Association of New England, which
operates Gethsemane Cemetery there. Since 1974, the association and
the Metropolitan District Commission have conducted on-again,
off-again negotiations over the sale ...
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WEST ROXBURY MDC STILL EYEING BROOK FARM DUKAKIS BUDGET PLAN WILL CARRY $3M TO BID FOR LONG-SOUGHT PARCEL
The Boston Globe
; Brook Farm in West Roxbury, once home to a 19th-century utopian community and now the last large tract of undeveloped land in Boston, may yet be purchased by the state despite years of delays. The 175-acre site, located on Baker Street near VFW Parkway, is owned by the Lutheran Service Association
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Hundreds gather at Brook Farm to celebrate ideas that inspired it
The Boston Globe
; Hundreds of people yesterday explored the grounds of Brook Farm, where Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson lived and worked about 150 years ago as part of an ambitious but short-lived experiment in socialism. The Brook Farm commune, founded in 1841, also attracted feminist Margaret Fuller,
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After the touch-up, whither utopia? For Brook Farm, no solid plans, just dreams
The Boston Globe
; ... looking for information, according to John Demotte, cemetery office manager, who keeps a small collection of old pamphlets and maps on a rack in his office. "More so in the nicer months, folks will come in. We give them whatever we have," he said. In its short ...
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Brook Farm being spruced up for 150th birthday
The Boston Globe
; For weeks now, members and friends of the West Roxbury Historical Society have been rummaging through documents, books and their attics to find clues to help them reenact the sights, sounds and ambiance of Brook Farm, an intellectual and social experiment in West Roxbury between 1841 and 1847. They
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WEST ROXBURY
The Boston Globe
; Today, West Roxbury is Boston's version of a leafy suburb. At one time, it was Utopia. Indeed, during the 1840s, Transcendentalists built a community for themselves called Brook Farm, which influenced the world view of American writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson, among others,
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The last puritans.(Review)(Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia)(Book Review)
Public Interest
; BROOK Farm was the most visible, and in some ways most successful, of the many American secular utopian experiments of the 1840s. This decade, as Sterling Delano explains in Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia, ([dagger]) was one of our nation's most distinctive, infused as it was by the idea of
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Wamps swamp Brook Farm
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; BRAINTREE - The Braintree High School boys basketball team took advantage of Brook Farm's misfortune on Friday night. The fifth-seeded Raiders, who represent the West Roxbury Educational Complex, lost 16 players this season to a variety of eligibility issues. They dressed mostly underclassmen in
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AFTER 14 YEARS TRYING, MDC BUYS BROOK FARM
The Boston Globe
; After 14 years of failed efforts and negotiations, the Metropolitan District Commission has purchased historic Brook Farm in West Roxbury from the Lutheran Service Association of New England. The 175-acre site, once home to a 19th-century commune that included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David
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Mayoral race keys on West Roxbury Active electorate
The Boston Globe
; The political powerhouse of West Roxbury is emerging as a critical battleground in the race for mayor this year because while it boasts more voters than any other ward in the city, it lacks a home-grown candidate to back in this campaign. Last Friday night, a waving Suffolk County Sheriff Robert C.
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02131, 02132 A long time ago, a bunch of West Roxbury neighbors were plunked down into the Roslindale ZIP code. Now they're finally going home.
The Boston Globe
; CITY WEEKLY Eight years ago, Gail Curley decided to move to West Roxbury. She looked at newspaper ads listed under "West Roxbury." When she saw a promising place, she called a West Roxbury realtor. She drove to West Roxbury and fell in love. But then, as she got ready to sign the legal documents
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