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URL:https://wellesleyconservationlandtrust.org/events/spring-2011-the-bake
 r-estate-fairyland-of-the-beautiful-and-bizarre/
SUMMARY:Spring 2011: The Baker Estate - "Fairyland of the Beautiful and Biz
 arre"
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gloria Polizzotti Greis\,\nExecutive Director\, Ne
 edham Historical Society\n\nGloria Polizzotti Greis\, Executive Director o
 f the Needham Historical Society delivered a powerpoint lecture The Baker 
 Estate - "Fairyland of the Beautiful and Bizarre\,"  She introduced the hi
 story of the Baker Estate and illustrated her lecture with the extensive c
 ollection of Baker Estate photos in the Needham Historical Society.\n\nIn 
 the 1860s\, William Emerson Baker retired from his sewing machine business
  with a vast fortune and purchased nearly 800 acres in Needham - the famou
 s Ridge Hill Farms. Widely regarded as America's first amusement park\, Ri
 dge Hill Farms embodied Baker's extraordinary passion for social and econo
 mic reform\, experimental agriculture\, bad puns\, and practical jokes.  E
 very attraction had its sharp point – and he used it to needle politicia
 ns\, soldiers\, scientists\, and priests. After Baker’s death\, several 
 attempts were made to keep the attractions going\; but fires and lack of f
 unds eventually doomed the effort\, and today there are few traces left of
  Baker’s “Fairyland of the Beautiful and Bizarre.”\n\n[gallery link=
 "file" columns="2" size="medium" ids="4058\,4059"]\n\nGloria Polizzotti Gr
 eis has been Executive Director of the Needham Historical Society since 20
 02. Prior to the Historical Society\, she was Peabody Research Fellow at t
 he Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard) (2001-2002)\, and
  Collections Manager for the Peabody’s Archaeology and Human Osteology C
 ollections (1989-2001). \n\nMs. Greis holds a PhD in Anthropology\, specia
 lizing in the archaeology of prehistoric Europe\, and is the author of two
  books on archaeology\, a book on local history\, and several articles on 
 history\, archaeology and various other topics.  She also serves as a memb
 er of the Needham Historical Commission\, and the Needham Tercentennial Co
 mmittee.\n\nWCC's Guernsey Sanctuary\, a 25 acre woodland maintained in it
 s natural state\, is a part of the original Baker Estate.  Guernsey Sanctu
 ary was a gift to the Wellesley Conservation Council in 1961 by Mr. and Mr
 s. William G. Guernsey.\n\nPhotograph of Sabrina Lake 1875 courtesy of Glo
 ria Polizzotti Greis    
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CATEGORIES:Semi-Annual Meeting
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