Kathleen Rowe

Charles River Bridges

Charles River Bridges

What a great view of the annual Head of the Charles Regatta from the Eliot Bridge in Cambridge! Standing on the north side of the bridge, we can watch the scullers and crews approaching as they round the turn at tree-covered Riverbend Park, pass the Cambridge Boat Club, then disappear beneath the Eliot Bridge, to emerge again on the other side rowing alongside […]

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Charles River Crossings

Charles River Crossings

Charles River Crossings One of the most famous Charles River crossings memorialized in Longfellow’s poem happened on a moonlit night in April 1775 when Paul Revere quietly rowed across the Charles from Boston to Charlestown, a short time before British Regulars disembarked from their ships in Boston Harbor to cross the Charles and begin their cold, […]

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Vikings Landing on the Charles?

Vikings Landing on the Charles?

The blog entry “Welcome Summer on the Charles” (May 2016) described many opportunities to “take to the water,” on the Charles River, including the availability of canoe and kayak rentals at the historic Norumbega* boathouse in Newton. You may also want to walk around the adjoining thirteen-acre Norumbega  Park, managed by the Newton Conservators. In the late 1800s, […]

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Fourth of July on the Esplanade

Fourth of July on the Esplanade

If you have ever had the experience of participating in the Fourth of July celebration at the Hatch Shell by the Charles River in Boston, you know how exciting that can be with the Boston Pops playing from the band shell, fireworks reflected over the water, flag-waving crowds, and cannons fired during the climactic moments […]

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Welcome Summer on the Charles

Welcome Summer on the Charles

While April brings back the sailboats at Community Boating in Boston, May marks the beginning of the paddling season, with the opening of Charles River Canoe and Kayak in Cambridge, Brighton/Allston, Waltham, and Newton and the training of new scullers and crew teams at Community Rowing in Brighton. Both of these opportunities are described in the […]

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Stewards of Our Waterways

Stewards of Our Waterways

After years of industrial growth and expansion, fueled by world wars, the 1960s was a period of growing awareness and concern about our environment. Marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson who published Silent Spring in 1961 had already written Under the Sea Wind, The Sea Around Us, and The Edge of the Sea, all with the awareness of our interdependent relationship […]

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Cruising on the Charles

Cruising on the Charles

“Sailing for All” has drawn people of all ages to Boston’s Community Boating, Inc., docks to learn about rigging a sail, “heading up into the wind,” and tacking across the ever-changing winds that blow across the water from the wind tunnels created by the buildings of Boston’s skyline. From April to November the staff at […]

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Mount Auburn near the Charles

Mount Auburn near the Charles

Our earliest visit to Mount Auburn Cemetery was on a beautiful spring day when the trees had burst into bloom – pink, yellow, crimson, and white, with the sun illuminating the new green of the trees. We walked with our four-month-old son in his stroller along winding lanes past intricately carved monuments, bordered by ponds and pathways with botanical names […]

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Sir Richard’s Landing

Sir Richard’s Landing

We recently spent time at the Mt. Auburn Hospital and found ourselves in a room with a scenic view of the Charles River along Memorial Drive.  An occasional sculler glided along the Charles in the early morning, a walker or runner followed the path by the river on some of the milder days, and we could […]

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Follow the River!

Follow the River!

Take a self-guided walking tour from Boston or Cambridge through history and today’s active city. If you are in Boston for a short time, begin in front of North Station (MBTA) on Causeway Street that was once a walkway for Native Americans and then Colonists during low tide. Get a close-up view of the Zackim […]

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