Celebrating Boston Common, 6 June

The Friends of the Public Gardens and a bunch of nearby historic organizations celebrating the history of Boston Common on Monday, 6 June, from 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. They’re particularly inviting area schools to this “Making History Day,” honoring America’s “first public park.”

Here are some of the organizations scheduled to be at the event:

• Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers
• Historic New England: Colonial Games and Trades
• Codman Family Farms: Meet an Animal
• Freedom Trail Foundations: Colonial Punishments
• The Commonwealth Vintage Dancers
• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
• The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment

Above is a reproduction of Christian Remick’s view of the Common in 1768, looking from modern Tremont Street up the slope toward John Hancock’s mansion and the beacon on Beacon Hill at upper right.