Afternoon Tea: Exploring the History of the Quabbin with J.R. Greene

Join us in 2019 once a month at Look Park for Afternoon Tea! Each monthly tea will feature a different speaker or activity. Tickets are $10.00 per person and reservations are required. Teas will take place at the Garden House during the colder months. As the weather gets warmer, we will move outside. For questions or reservations, please call 413-584-5457. 

J.R. Greene, a life long resident of Athol, is a graduate of the University of Mass – Amherst. He is the author of 21 books; sixteen relating to the history of the Quabbin Reservoir and the towns destroyed to build it, three relating to the life of Calvin Coolidge, and two on Mass. railroads. He is chairman of the board of directors of the Friends of Quabbin (and their member of the Quabbin Watershed Advisory Council) , and the Quabbin – Ware River Watersheds representative on the Metro Water Resources Advisory Board.

The narrated slide program lasts a little over an hour, and relates the story of how the Metro Boston Water system reached out to take the Swift River valley to build the Quabbin Reservoir.  The towns and villages destroyed to build it are shown, and what life in them was like.  The author will have copies of his books on sale (autographed upon request) at the program.