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Bring the Family

The history of Jamaica Pond runs deep

WHO: Globe staff member Janice Page, daughter Zoe (age 9), sister Carol Ostrum.

WHERE: Jamaica Plain.

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In the article you say: "A highlight for the children was playing in and on sculptor Matthew Hincman's guerrilla installation of an upturned park bench, which resembles a wooden bathtub and always draws smiles, except from officials who have sought to remove it over the years." The park bench as installed today is no longer a guerrilla installation. That was back in 2006. The city no longer seeks to remove the bench and allows it "to temporarily reside for the Summer and Autumn months." In the link you provide it says: "Jamaica Pond Bench, 2006 This is the original guerrilla installation of May 13, 2006 of the Jamaica Pond Bench. It took the City of Boston approximately one week to discover that the bench was there, and then another four days to figure out it wasn't a City approved project. Duly reprimanded, the City, led be Boston City Parks Director of Facilities, Bernie Lynch, re-installed the bench at the Jamaica Pond for the rest of the Summer of 2006. In 2009, I approached the City again about installing the sculpture, and the City poured a concrete footing for the bench to temporarily reside for the Summer and Autumn months."