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The Quincy Green Map highlights the cultural, natural, and sustainable living sites of Quincy, MA.
Begun May 2008
Updated: 1 year ago
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Is the large Richard J. Koch Park & Rec Complex, which includes the only real and accessible waterfronts within Merrymount Park, open to the general public? The RJKP&RC is fenced in and has a main gate which is sometimes left open, at other times closed. Over the course of 2 decades I have hardly ever seen people walking in or out, recreating or working in the RJKP&RC. The main visible activities I have noticed are motor vehicles of the Department of P&R rushing through the gate entering or leaving the RJKP&RC.
If the RJKP&RC is indeed open to us ordinary citizens, should it not be much more explicitly marked as such, because its setting and appearance suggest otherwise?
If it is true that the RJKP&RC is not meant for public use and enjoyment, then I wonder why? What and who are the city-owned, city-maintained land and facility in the heart of Merrymount Park for?
Maybe I am wrong, but in my understanding the Richard J. Koch Park & Rec Complex was built and is owned by the city of Quincy and named "Richard J. Koch Park & Rec Complexin" to honor the memory of Richard J. Koch, an erstwhile Quincy resident, politician and official, the Richard J. Koch Park & Rec Complex was neither paid for, acquired nor owned by Mr. Koch or his family.
To Tom Galvin My brother Dan and I took a very interesting tour of the Mt Wollaston Cemetery with you a couple of summers back and I was wondering if you be familiar with the magnificent elm tree situated on Hancock Street at Merrymount Park. The tree, while lovely to look at and providing a 125 ft canopy of shade, life giving oxygen and housing for birds as well as an asset to the neighborhood, is slated for demolition as part of the new middle school project. It seems the tree will stand in the way of the parking lot. I have been told by the mayor that the tree is in decline - although it has bloomed beautifully again this year. It looks like a bit of pruning would do it good. Because the tree is alone in its space It has been free of Dutch elm disease and has survived likely close to two hundred years only to fall to a bulldozer in the name of progress. Hugh Sidey wrote years ago in Time magazine of the tree's "cousin" transplanted to the White House grounds and which survives to this day. We should be making the effort to save the elm in its home town don't you think?
My brother, who lives near the tree site, and whose grandson will attend the future school,and I, would love to see the tree incorporated into the plans for the school. What better focal point of Merrymount memorial park than its historic tree. If you have information on this tree I would appreciate your sharing it with me so I may gather information for an argument to the tree's removal.
Thank you
Millicent Broderick
millicent0224@hotmail.com
In response to the March 6 writer, dogs do run that does not mean they are out of control. If dogs are vicious that's a different thing. If you met my dog, you would not want her to leave and there are many dogs like that.. Dogs need a little piece of ocean to themselves, SOMEWHERE around here, and us dogs owners do too. Dogs need to get a good run, it's as nature intended. And they keep most of us going with their unconditional love. So people in Quincy don't clean up after their dogs, that mostly tells me there's a high chance of them having worms. There are actually a variety of ones. But I don't know a person who doesn't clean up after their pup. I have to go check this place out sometime. Just debating whether to bring my dog and subject them possible infection.