FBHI Past Events

FBHI 2024 Annual Meeting Took place on Deer Island

October 20, 2024 — The FBHI Annual Meeting was held in the Historic Pump Station at the MWRA Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant from 2:00-4:00pm. There will be social time, a brief business meeting and the election of Board members. The guest speaker will be Cyrus Marion, whose currently teaching "On the Edge of the World: An Archaeological History of the Boston Harbor Islands" for the UMass Boston Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Light refreshments will be served.

The MWRA staff will offer elevator tours up to the top of the digesters before the meeting. The tours will begin at noon and go through 1:30.

Registration is required. Your name and everyone in your party attending must be on the registration list when you check in at the MWRA Security Gate. RSVP by Wednesday, October 16th COB. Click here to go to the registration page.

Come early, pack a picnic and explore the perimeter park. The perimeter park has 5 miles of trails. Parking for the perimeter park has a separate parking lot than where the Friends meeting will be held. You may explore the park first and then drive in through the Security Gate to the Historic Pump Station for the meeting. Of course, you may explore the perimeter park after the meeting too.

Public transportation is available via the MBTA Blue Line to Orient Heights. Change to bus #712/713 to Point Shirley which is the last stop. This stop is the entrance to the perimeter public access trail and road to the Security Gate. We will provide a car shuttle from the bus stop to coordinate with the bus departures at 11:40am, 12:20, 1:00 and 1:40pm.

It is approximately 2/3 of a mile walk to the Security Gate and the Historic Pump Station from the bus stop.

A VOYAGE BACK IN TIME TO GREAT BREWSTER ISLAND

July 20, 2024 – FBHI author volunteers presented a program onboard the MV Columbia Point about "A Boston Harbor Islands Adventure - The Great Brewster Journal of 1891." The book highlights a remarkable tale of four women who sojourn on Great Brewster in 1891. The tour had views of Long Island Head Light, Deer Island (aid-to-navigation), historic day-marker, Nixes Mate, Boston Light and Graves Light. Low tide also enabled views of the nearly 1.5 mile sandspit extending from Great Brewster Island.

Copies of the book are available online from History Press.

MV Columbia Point docking following the trip to Great Brewster Island.

2021 ANNUAL MEETING OF FBHI

The 2021 Annual Meeting was held virtually on October 23, 2021. Click on the title screen below to watch the video of that meeting.

The meeting included a conversation with authors Pavala Simkova and Stephanie Schorow followed a short business meeting with short presentations by Chairman Walter Hope, Founder Suzanne Gall Marsh and Volunteer Coordinator Carol Fithian, and election of FBHI Board of Directors.

Urban Archipelago - An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands a 2021 publication from the University of Massachusetts Press is available.