FWB
Facts
Purpose:
The Friends of Wollaston Beach (in Quincy MA) is an
organization promoting public use of Wollaston Beach, preserving and protecting
the fragile ecosystems, and addressing the quality of life issues relating to
the Beach. The goal of the
Association is to promote the wise use and preservation of the Beach,
encouraging volunteerism, alerting others to issues affecting the Beach through
educational, cultural, social and civic programs, and advocating on behalf of
Beach users.
Officers for
2008:
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President: Neil McCole |
Treasurer:
Maureen Mazrimas |
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Vice-President: Scott Smith |
Recording Secretary: Robert Verney |
Past President: Kristen Awed-Ladas, Past VP:
Richard Herbert
Updated Bylaws:
Please click
Here!
Dues:
$10 per ‘voting’ member per year. No
distinction made for organizations, families, business etc.
Contact/Mailing methods: email if an
address is provided, otherwise via US Mail.
Members shall not be ‘penalized’
if they choose not to use email.
Confidentiality/Privacy: All
membership information (names, email/home address, phone numbers) shall be held
in strict confidence. Emails sent
out to the group at large shall not divulge the email address of any other
member or recipient, without explicit prior consent.
Meetings: Quarterly:
Publicity (to be notified) QATV, City of Quincy
‘Quick Links’, Quincy Sun, Patriot Ledger.
Web Contact:
Assistant Webmaster:
Rich Joyce (617) 653
9787 info@wollastonbeach.org (site content
composed by same)
FWB 'start up'
History:
August 22, 2006
Public Meeting to get
input, feasibility
October 11, 2006 Public
Meeting By-Laws
approved.
November 14, 2006 Public Meeting: First official meeting:
January 4, 2007
Speakers: Karl Pastore and Nate Skrocki of DCR.
March 1, 2007 Water Quality, Plantings, a little bit of History
April
5, 2007
Events Brainstorm, Logo Unveiling, Reservations about the ‘Welcome’ sign…
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A very brief of history of the first
100 years (and few before) of Wollaston
Beach:
The "Mount
Wollaston River" bridge at Blacks Creek was completed in 1925, and the bridge
was dedicated to the memory of Sgt. Philip Greenberg USMC (WWII)
in 1961. The Greenberg Bridge was rebuilt in 1974. At that same time, Blacks
Creek was dredged, and the order came for it to be dug out to several
feet below Low Tide Level so as to 'alleviate' flooding upstream at the
mouth of Furnace Brook. This order came from a politician and not an engineer,
because this action did nothing to stem the flooding and only served to
undermine the new approach to the Bridge, until the engineers managed to stop
the digging.
Black's Creek was named for Moses
Blacks, a good friend and neighbor of President John Adams and Abigail
. (Abigail's letters spelled his name as 'Blacks'). He lived in the
"Dorothy Q" house on Butler Rd.
Ruffs (or Rufes) Hummock was named for
Rufus Davis, essentially banished to live there when his wife died and he
took up with too much 'spirits and loose women'.
Gull Island
is now known as Caddy Park, dedicated to the memory of Sgt William Caddy USMC
(WWII, posthumously awarded Congressional Medal of Honor).
Pageant
Field was named from the celebration of Quincy's Tercentenary (ter CEN
ten ary) in 1925. "Lower Merrymount" was chosen for the site of "The Pageant of
Quincy" : 3-hours in length, and truly a cast of thousands
of Quincy residents, to depict 'The 300 Years of Quincy'. All of the
several performances held during the week long celebration were a huge
success. The concept could have led directly to the notion of the HBO
mini-series, but once 'talking pictures' took hold, the "Grand Pageant" was no
more. But the name "Pageant Field" stays on. The scene depicted on the official
Seal of the City of Quincy is essentially the view from Pageant
Field.
Wollaston Beach 'Reservation'?
Quincy Shores Reservation? FoWBR?
Nope,
they are just typo's on signs here and there. The
'Shores' typo has persisted sporadically probably
because so many other DCR properties are named in that pluarlistic
fashion, such as "Lynn Shores" . But the original land
plans clearly say "Quincy Shore ...". Even FWB got caught up in the
mix, as our original charter called for "The Friends of Wollaston Beach
Reservation" (FoWBR). When it was realized that in fact there was no Wollaston
Beach Reservation and thus we risked our legal standing(*), there were no
reservations to dropping the R (phonetically easy for most of us
anyway), but we didnt stop until we completed the clean look by dropping the
little 'o' as well. FWB became a capital idea. Lucky for us we didnt order
T-shirts too early.
(*) even though we never did have a 'legal standing'
in a corporate sense.
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Photo/Graphics Credits: Photos without explicit ‘citation’ are property of FWB (an un-incorporated, legally non-existant, entity). "Reconizable" subjects in all photos appear only with their full knowledge and consent; they have given permission for posting on this web site only. Exceptions for photos that have been previously published. All Copyrights are implied.