Forest Hill Park in Style Weekly
Nothing earthshaking and certainly nothing we don’t already know from Style Weekly but it is nice to see some press.
Change has also taken place across the river at Forest Hill Park. The weekly farmers’ market is drawing crowds here, but there are quieter pleasures, too.
The newer of the two parks, Forest Hill became city property in 1933 after having served for more than 40 years as a privately owned amusement park at the terminus of a major street car line. Before that, it had been farmland and a country estate, Boscobel, which means “beautiful woods” in Italian.
I do miss seeing the wider variety of wildlife that was there before the dredging was done.
Me too, but everyone treated me like I had two heads when I brought that possibility up before they started dredging.
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