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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 4., Elizur Wright and the Middlesex Fells. (search)
ially appointed in behalf of a park or parks for Boston. The paper he read was one which bears the name he had given his Fells, Mt. Andrew Park. The outcome of the meeting which was held in December was the passage of a law in 1870 which allowed l in vulgar phrase, had cut her nose off to spite her face. Mr. Wright, whose hope was for lungs,—large oxygen exhaling Fells and Blue Hills lungs,—wrote of this action April 26, 186: The well guarded park bill of last year, which submitted the who the purity of the air and the protection of water sources, it seemed all important to him that the entire 4,000 natural Fells acres should be taken at one time, and thus be under a wholly unitary control, and to this end his plan proposed to securpe, he determined those grand old saviors of mankind should perish only to save their brother trees, and his work for his Fells was redoubled. He had already established Forest Festivals, which were held yearly and in different parts of the Fells,