EVENTS

Summer Fair at the Dorchester Meetinghouse
Saturday, June 19, 2010; 11 AM–4 PM

In the church yard at First Parish Church in Dorchester
10Parish Street, Dorchester
Church white elephant sale – BBQ - Artisan Fair - Kids games -
Farmer's market - Baked goods.
Featuring local artisans including:
Sandy Coleman, Susan Krause, Raine Newman, Mike Ritter, Sharon Armour, David Mynott.
Special: Live Music – Delta Blues. $1.00 entry fee for adults and children over 12. Rain date: Sat. June 26.

Ashmont/ Peabody Square Farmers’ Market

To be held on Fridays from 3–7 p.m., July 9–October 29, on the brand-new Ashmont Station plaza. Active DAC members may have use of a vendor table at no charge one day this season! For more info, please contact the DAC 617.839.6734.

Pearl Street Cooperative Gallery (PSG)

11 Pearl Street is a project of the The Dorchester Arts Collaborative (DAC). For more info, please call 617-839-6734 or go to pearlstreetgallery.org

Dorchester Historical Society, 195 Boston Street

The purpose of the Dorchester Historical Society, founded in 1843 and incorporated in 1891, is to collect, preserve, and disseminate knowledge of the history of that section of the City of Boston which was formerly the Town of Dorchester; to hold, and aid in the preservation of, historic buildings and sites in the area; to care for, and from time to time, exhibit such articles of historic or antiquarian interest as may come into its possession. For more info, call 617-265-7802 or go to dorchesterhistoricalsociety.org

The Moon Will Sleep in Peabody Square

Fundraising is about three quarters completed for the installation of the Peabody Square Sleeping Moon by Ashmont Hill resident and world renowned sculptor Joe Wheelwright. This $125,000 project was started in 2004, and the neighborhood hopes the installation will be complete in time for Dorchester Open Studios 2009. Joe Wheelwright describes his Sleeping Moon as follows. “The small park in Peabody Square is being enlarged and redesigned to welcome the residents and visitors of this increasingly lively and sophisticated crossroads of neighborhoods. The much-loved clock in the square requires a companion artwork which is elegant and friendly, and which relates to time. I have proposed a “Sleeping Moon” in bronze, floating on its back as if waiting to again patrol the heavens. The moon after all is the original timepiece. The work will be modeled after one of the 28 small bronze moons in my series of 28 moons begun in 1980. Enlarged to eight or nine feet from chin to the top of the head, the ‘Sleeping Moon’ will be cast, reworked, and patinated a dark green, then mounted on a stainless steel post rising from - and mostly hidden by - new shrubbery. The moon and the clock will relate sweetly and quietly in a ‘timeless’ dance, and admirers will find new seating at the base of the clock.”