Park Alert:

Public ferry service to the Boston Harbor Islands will be suspended on Thursday, June 12, and Friday, June 13 due to a unique combination of waterline repairs on Georges Island, vessel limitations, and a previously scheduled private event on Spectacle Island. Service to Spectacle Island will resume on Saturday, June 14. Georges will remain closed until repairs are complete. We appreciate your patience and will be offering an additional free ferry day later this season.

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Activities, ranger tours, and most programs are included with your ferry ticket.

Book Party

Celebrate the launch of A Boston Harbor Island Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891 with views of Great Brewster Island.

In a special book party on Saturday, July 15, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., on Georges Island, the Friends of the Boston Harbor will celebrate the 132-year anniversary of the beginning of a journey to Great Brewster Island with four intrepid women. Their story is told in the just-published A Boston Harbor Island Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891, a volunteer effort led by author Stephanie Schorow to print and annotate the remarkable journal the women created. Come and talk to the authors of the book, purchase a signed copy, and hear a special reading from the journal at 1:30 p.m., with Great Brewster Island in the background.

 

A photograph from the 132-year-old journal shows four women sitting out on the island. The journal inspired a group of modern-day sleuths to try to uncover their identities.

Harvard Schlesinger Library

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