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✍️📸🤳✨ for boston parks & rec department
passionate about knitting, reality tv, and a livable future 🌎
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jamaica plain, ma
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Are you coming? ✨ Our Wicked movie night flies to the Boston Common THIS Friday!

📅 Friday, Sept 26 | Party 5:30 p.m. | Movie 7:00 p.m.
📍 Boston Common
🧹 Costume contest, giveaways, trivia, popcorn & more!

🍿Don’t miss this thrillifying night: boston.gov/movie-nights
Still from Wicked movie shows Glinda and Elphaba holding hands during Defying Gravity. Text reads song lyrics "Come with me. Think of what we could do together." With BPRD logo.
September 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Noooo that's my emotional support Untitled google doc
September 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This one was so fun to make!! 🍦
parks.boston.gov Boston Parks Department @parks.boston.gov · Jun 4
Me too? Yes, you too! 🍦

Stop by the newest addition to America’s oldest park and enjoy pastries, soft serve, hot dogs, and more from Flour Bakery and Cafe.
June 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Something different every day lol
parks.boston.gov Boston Parks Department @parks.boston.gov · May 12
Last week we helped release 1,000+ trout into Jamaica Pond with Mass Wildlife! 🎣

Alongside students from the @bostonschools.boston.gov Curley K-8, we continued a 25-year tradition that connects youth to nature and keeps urban fishing alive.

#BostonParks #RecreationalFishing #MassachusettsWildlife
May 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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My coworkers are so talented 😭🌷
parks.boston.gov Boston Parks Department @parks.boston.gov · May 6
Tulip Mania is in full bloom in #Boston! This spring, our incredible horticulture team planted 🌟26,000🌟 tulip bulbs.

🌷Check out some of our faves:
May 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Happy #ArborDay Boston!
A family has a picnic under a yellow and green ginkgo tree in the boston public garden Massive northern red oak at Franklin Park during a snow storm Newly planted trees turning colors for the fall season at O’Day Playground in the South End. Flowering bradford pear tree (yes, the ones that smell funny) in Mission Hill. It’s hard to make out but there’s also a piece of litter stuck in the tree which is bad
April 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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If you saw me kneeling down on the sidewalk to take these.. no you didn’t 🌷
Tulips at Copley Square Tulips at Boston Public Garden
April 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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🌎 Happy Earth Day, Boston! We’re proud to protect and celebrate the green and open spaces that help our city thrive.

Huge thanks to our incredible community partners who care for and steward these parks all year long. Let’s keep working together to care for our planet 💚
Waterfront landscape at Condor Street Urban Wild Volunteers clean up wooded area during Urban Wilds program Pathway into Sherrin Woods Urban Wilds Volunteers smile with trash collected at Urban Wilds cleanup
April 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I’m ngl I’ve become a little magnolia-pilled since starting my job for @parks.boston.gov

Today after the swan boats kicked off, my mom and I did our own little comm ave magnolia stroll 🤩 #boston #backbay #bostonphotography
construction fence with a hole for the mags My mom smiling in front of a magnolia tree and fence My mom looking up at a bright pink magnolia tree in front of a Comm Ave brownstone Light pink magnolia trees in Boston’s back bay
April 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I love this weekend and I love Boston 🥹🫶
parks.boston.gov Boston Parks Department @parks.boston.gov · Apr 19
First official Swan Boats ride of the season with @mayorwu.boston.gov in the #BostonPublicGarden! 🌸🦢

boston.gov/swan-boats
April 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Tea was spilled #Boston250
drone show in boston shows tea being dumped into the harbor
April 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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2 rainbow, 3 decker
double rainbow over a row of triple deckers
April 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🏆 Behold the Duck Boat Cup! 🦆💪 Who will claim Boston glory at the 1st-ever Duck Boat Pull?

🗓 TOMORROW, Sat, April 12 @ 11 a.m.
📍 Boston Common
🔥 Pulling for FREE Parks sports programs!

Get involved: boston.gov/duck-boat-pull

#DuckBoatPull #Boston #BostonParks #BostonSports
Photo of the Duck Boat Pull Championship Trophy in front of a hand-painted mural of the Boston Common.
April 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This is good I give it 5 big blooms
parks.boston.gov Boston Parks Department @parks.boston.gov · Apr 9
Spring is starting to bloom across Boston! 🌸

Here's your guide to the flowers popping up now and the ones on the way: 🧵(1/9)
April 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Just a girl with canva pro and a dream 🎨
parks.boston.gov Boston Parks Department @parks.boston.gov · Apr 3
Boston’s parks are bursting with color! 🎨 Inspired by the spring colors of our open spaces, here’s a #Pantone palette straight from the parks.

What’s your favorite? What colors should we add? 🌼💚 #BostonParks #ColorsofNature #Boston #ParkARTS
A photo of daffodils with a yellow swatch titled "Daffodil Bloom" A photo of tulips in front of the Swan Boats at Boston Public Garden with a white swatch titled "Swan Boat Ivory" A photo of the Ellicott Arch at Franklin Park with a green swatch titled "Ellicott Emerald" A photo of tulips in front of the George Washington Statue at Boston Public Garden with a coral swatch titled "Commander Coral"
April 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Mayor Wu: “In a City of sports champions, this is a historic victory…Together, after so many years of broken promises, we will give our young people and all our residents the scale of investment and opportunity that Franklin Park and our City deserve.”
dotnews.bsky.social DotNews @dotnews.bsky.social · Apr 2
Judge rules in favor of city’s White Stadium renovation project www.dotnews.com/2025/judge-r...
Judge Matthew Nestor in court last month. Seth Daniel photo
April 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Going back to jamaica plain after being downtown
morgan wallen’s ig story after SNL states “get me to god’s country”
March 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Boston, are you ready for a challenge? 🔥💪

This April, we’re raising money for youth sports with the first ever Duck Boat Pull!

📢 Sign up now: boston.gov/duck-boat-pull
March 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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This #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re celebrating the women who shaped Boston’s parks! Today, meet Mary Ellen Welch✨

A lifelong East Boston resident & teacher, she fought for affordable housing, public schools & environmental justice. (1/3)
Women's History Month 2025 - Mary Ellen Welch
March 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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“What the hell, sure” meme
March 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Federal immigration authorities late Tuesday detained a Tufts PhD student who is a Turkish national, her attorney and community activists said.
Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student - The Boston Globe
In an email Tuesday night, Tufts University President Sunil Kumar said the school received reports that the student was taken into custody outside an off-campus apartment building in Somerville.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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happy bos nation name change day to all who celebrate 🥳
March 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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America’s oldest public park mentioned on the daily show by @mayorwu.boston.gov 😍
March 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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This #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re celebrating the incredible women who’ve shaped Boston’s parks, starting with the legendary Elma Lewis! 🎭✨

A Roxbury icon, she founded the Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park at Franklin Park and dedicated her life to the arts and community.
A graphic highlights Elma Lewis in a photo with Mayor Kevin White. Text reads: Women’s History Month 2025 - Elma Lewis.
March 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Wish I was there to lib out at this suffrage victory parade that the globe described with "crowd breaks though ropes; several women faint."
Sunday globe from October 17, 1915.
March 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM