The Swellesley Report

The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College has released plans for new exhibits beginning this March and for a couple more in the fall.

Beginning March 11, the Museum will showcase “Prints in an Age of Artistry,” which features 16th and 17th century Italian prints, like this one, dubbed Sleeping Cupid.

Also on tap is Michal Rovner’s “fictional documentary” called Borders shot along the border of Israel and Lebanon.

An opening reception for the public will be held March 11 at the museum from 6-8pm. (Also on view will be art from the permanent collection.)

Looking further out, the museum next fall is scheduled to have exhibits called “21 Etchings and Poems” and George Legrady, Cell Tango. This work by this new media artist is an evolving exhibit fueled by contributions from cell phone users.

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Wellesley Free Library offers up a few good reads about Wellesley’s birds, geology and more.

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The Wellesley Trails Committee will be your guide. Meet at 8am at Wellesley High parking lot and bring some water/snacks and sturdy shoes. If you can’t do the whole grand tour of 10 miles (most of it on Wellesley’s trails), there are places you can bail if you situate your cars or bikes right. The walk figures to wrap up between noon and 12:30pm.

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One online tool you can use to break out of your routine and try a new route is the MapMyRun website. Users of the site have created more than 500 maps for running/biking routes in or through Wellesley. You can also add your own.

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The town is known locally for having a slew of the oldest trees around, but bugs and age are taking their toll on these champion trees, according to this Boston Globe piece:

“We did have many champions,” said Cricket Vlass, who has served Wellesley as a town landscape planner for more than 25 years, “but one by one we’re losing them. Some were very mature.” And, much as you try, she said, “you can’t make a tree last forever. It’s so hard to see them decline.”

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Babson College last week formally dedicated Wellesley’s newest spectacular outdoor space: Barefoot Park, which is a newly landscaped area in the upper quad on the Babson Campus.

The park honors ex-Babson president Brian Barefoot (2001-2008), who had the foresight to have such a park-friendly name. No offense, but a park named after current Babson president Leonard Schlesinger just wouldn’t have the same ring to it.

And if you’re thinking Barefoot Park sounds familiar, you’re probably thinking of the Neil Simon play converted into a 1967 movie starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.

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Wellesley Country Club is auctioning off everything from fox hunting paintings to toilet paper dispensers to chandeliers and furniture today as it makes its move from the old clubhouse to the new one, seen here. Inspection at 9am/auction at 11am. More auction details here.

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How Wellesley College students get down the treacherous Severance Hill….

How visitors from MIT do it:

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The town will present an outdoor showing of “The Ant Bully” at Warren Park on Friday night (Sept. 12) when it gets dark. Bring along a picnic and blanket and hunker down.

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Noticed the playground over near the tennis courts on Washington St. near the Hunnewell Field is in quite a state. Orange “Danger” signs are posted on the play structure, the black metal fence around it is crushed and a very guilty looking tree is sliced in half and partially uprooted…

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