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    Celebrate the Restoration of Boston’s Statue of Robert Burns

    Invite you to celebrate
    the restoration of Boston’s statue of
    Robert Burns

    with recitations of Burns’s work and
    a performance by
    Maureen McMullan and Friends

    Wednesday, October 30 | 2-4pm
    Back Bay Fens

    See map below for exact location, or follow this link to a google map.
    We will be at the intersection of Agassiz Road and The Fenway.
    Paid public parking is available at the Westland Avenue garage.

    Refreshments to Follow
    Free and Open to All

    RSVP to mail@ntsusa.org

    Robert Burns Statue, Back Bay Fens, Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection, Historic New England.

    Please join us for a celebration of the restoration and re-installation of Henry Hudson Kitson’s statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns and his dog, Luath. The statue will be making its triumphant return to its original location in the Back Bay Fens from Winthrop Square this month.

    Several streets surrounding the The Fens (Kilmarnock and Queensberry) were given the names of Scottish cities and towns mentioned in Burns’s poetry. In 1910, The Burns Memorial Association of Boston held a competition to design a statue of Burns in that neighborhood. The winner was artist Henry Hudson Kitson. He completed the statue in 1919, and Governor Calvin Coolidge dedicated it the next year. The piece was moved from The Fenway to Winthrop Square in the Financial District in the summer of 1975.

    Our celebration will include music, recitations, and speakers from British and cultural institutions across Boston. Learn more about Burns and NTSUSA’s work to preserve his birthplace museum here.

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    Boston's Robert Burns Statue Celebration

    10/30/2019
    2:00 pm

    Back Bay Fens - Intersection of Agassiz Road and The Fenway

    Refreshments to Follow
    Free and Open to All

    RSVP to mail@ntsusa.org.

    Published: 8 October 2019

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