The free, family-friendly festival will feature canoeing and kayaking on the Neponset River, along with food trucks, live music, children’s activities, environmental exhibits, and other attractions.
Award-winning independent film producer Phil Keefe of Dorchester is a key part of the success of “Cotton Fever,” a feature film that recently won top honors at New York City’s legendary Tribeca Film Festival.
Veteran Boston newspaper and TV journalist Chris Lovett connects the dots of a raging debate about American identity with a Dorchester lens from the pre-Civil War resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act through present-day.
Tom McKenna and Mary Dyer will host a Meet & Greet on Thursday, July 30, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Eire Pub, where attendees can meet both writers, purchase signed copies of their books, and reminisce about the neighborhood that inspired their work.
The event, organized by Build Together, Epiphany School, Melville Park Neighborhood Association, St Mark’s Area Civic Association, and Greater Ashmont Main Streets, will take place from 1 to 4 p.m.
Last month, a few of former ‘GBH “Zoomers” were back together, at an event hosted by The Record Co. on Morrissey Boulevard.
