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  June 22, 2025 – Please join us to celebrate the 50th Anniversary!

  Please join us to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the designation of Hall’s Pond as a Nature Sanctuary in Brookline on Sunday, June 22, 2025, from 10AM to Noon at the Hall’s Pond Sanctuary Formal Gardens. Enjoy music, food, pop-up talks, and family fun in honor of this special occasion.

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  Starting Monday, March 10: Amelia Szymkowicz Pictures from Hall’s Pond Photo Gallery Brookline Bank

  A breathtaking photo journey exploring the wildlife that inhabits Brookline’s jewel box Conservation Sanctuary, Hall’s Pond. Starting Monday, March 10, at Coolidge Corner, 1324 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02446. Sponsored by Arts Brookline and Brookline Bank.

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  Monday, February 3, 6-8 pm: The View from Hall’s Pond: Fifty Years of Conservation Efforts in Brookline

  Date: Monday, February 3, 6-8 pm
  Diana Stelin Gallery
  1386 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02446

  Speakers will discuss the emergence and development of conservation efforts in Brookline with a focus on the transformation of Hall’s Pond into one of the first, and certainly the most frequented, nature sanctuaries in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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  2025 Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 12, 6-8PM

  Guest Speaker Lane Turner is an Award winning Boston Globe Photographer and Brookline resident who visited Hall’s Pond repeatedly over the course of 2024 and has produced images that surprise, delight and reveal various perspectives on the life of the pond. Join him as he discusses his experiences.

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  2024 Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 20, 7-8:30 PM

  Friends of Hall’s Pond Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 20, 7-8:30 PM at the Coolidge Corner Library Meeting Room. Featured Speaker Ken Liss: Public Squares and Parks Reserved:
  A History of Brookline’s Open Space, Parks, and Playgrounds.

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  2023 Annual Meeting on Wednesday, June 14, 6-8 PM

  Friends of Hall’s Pond Annual Meeting on June 14, 6-8 PM at the Brookline Senior Center, 93 Winchester Street. Guest Speaker Susan Helms Daley: “Harriet Hemenway and Brookline’s Pivotal Role in the Bird Protection Movement”

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  2022 Annual Meeting on Zoom on June 29, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

  Tom Brady, Town Conservation Administrator, will give us an update on the state of the Sanctuary and our Guest Speaker, Arlene Mattison, President of Brookline Greenspace Alliance, will fill us in on the larger issues of Brookline green space and how BGSA is addressing them.

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  History of Cottage Farm and Hall’s Pond” by Ferris Hall

  Slides presented at Friends of Hall’s Pond Annual Meeting, June 2019

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  2024 December Newsletter

  HALL’S POND continues to amaze, amuse and entertain us with its cycle of seasonal changes. ​ If 2023 was marked by abundant summer rains, 2024 was drier and ended in a mild drought. ​ The Sanctuary remained nonetheless exuberantly green. ​ Our flora and fauna cycled through the seasons, and we had regular visits from blue herons and cormorants.

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  2023 December Newsletter

  OVER THE YEARS, the seasons at Hall’s Pond are similar, yet each year has its own signature. If 2022 was dry, 2023 was marked by abundant summer rains. The Sanctuary was exuberantly green. Our avian visitors cycled through the seasons, and we were blessed with families of Wood Ducks and Mallards. The Wood Duck family was the first one in a very long time and successfully added three new members to their community.

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