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The urban village in repose
By adamg on Wed, 08/19/2015 - 7:59am
Steve shows us there were plenty of places to sit in Roslindale Square's Adams Park - at 4:30 in the morning.
Copyright Steve. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
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Whose park??
Whose park??
Adams St. in Dorchester?
Shades of our ex-mayor.
Heh, well, since you asked ...
Named for Irving W. Adams.
My respects to him
First MA man to die in WW1 was in 1918???
"Established in 1920 when the City of Boston purchased the land, the park was named in honor of Irving William Adams, reportedly the first Massachusetts man to die in World War I. He lived at the corner of Edgemont and South Streets and attended Longfellow School. Irving W. Adams was born on December 23, 1893. Before enlisting in the Army as a young man of 23, Adams was a leather salesman. He was killed at Rambucourt, France on February 9, 1918."
Could they mean 'last'? Or first Rosi guy?
Don't know.
Our first troops did not arrive ...
... at the front lines until 1918 (mostly not until spring 1918).
First US troops didn't land in Europe until mid-1917
And that was just a few thousand, and mostly in support roles far from the front. It was October 1917 before the first full US units were involved in frontline action, and it really wasn't until 1918 that American troops started to take part in the fighting in serious numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces
OK
I'm really a history nut, know a bit about the Revolution, Civil War and WW2. When I was a kid, I read about the Somme. A million casualties. Flanders, 50,000 British casualties in one day.
I gave up on WW1, it was just too much for me. I didn't realize how late in the war we were. So, I learned something today, from an offhand jest about Adams Park.
Of course....
... there were quite a few Americans (including some who died) who participated in WW1 before 1917-18. I think the three main groups were a sort of French foreign legion operation, a medical/ambulance corps and an air corps. I had a great uncle (or something of the sort) who was in that ambulance corps -- my grandmother told me he was never the same after he came back. (He died long before I was born). It was apparently against the law for Americans to fight in France prior to our entry into the war, but some Americans did so anyway.
Cool pic!
Cool pic!
Great pic! ...
Reminds me of something I've been curious about. The past few years, I've noticed that in Boston parks, benched with backs have been replaced with backless benches. Anyone know if there is a reason for that?
Backless benches are uncomfortable to sit on for any period of time. So I thought maybe the City wanted to discourage people from lingering. But on the other hand, backless benches are much better for sleeping, which usually requires much more time than lingering.
Why backless benches?
At least in the case of Adama's Park
...it means that you can comfortably sit facing either direction. Since this park is heavily used for so many different purposes, being able to sit facing out to the paths or in to the green spaces makes a lot of sense.
What's the deal with the
What's the deal with the giant hammock in Adams Park? Is it new this summer, or did I just never notice it before?
new this summer, just for next couple weekends.
Weekends in August, courtesy of BRACE (Building Research + Architecture + Community Exchange)
Short, nice video about it by a Rosi neighbor here.