Walk for a New Spring:
WAKE UP PEACE!
The Leverett Peace Pagoda and friends are walking across Massachusetts, bringing a message of peace to the State House, City Hall and the Federal Building on March 21. For more information, contact Sunny Miller at Traprock Peace Center - 413-773-1633, or Jo Comerford at Western Mass AFSC - 413-584-8975. AFSC is gauging support for a bus to Boston on March 21.
February 25
Plainfield (or Savoy) -- West Hawley -- Charlemont
Kate Stevens, 625.6967
February 26
Charlemont -- (Heath / Colrain) -- Greenfield
Potluck and evening program
First Baptist Church
118 Federal Street, Geenfield
Traprock Peace Center, 773.7427
February 27
Greenfield -- Great Falls -- Millers Falls -- Wendell -- New Salem
Lunch at St. John‰s Cathedral Church
Church Street, Millers Falls
5:30pm Potluck and evening program
New Salem Town Hall
Sarah Thayer, 978.544.3594
February 28
New Salem -- Orange -- Athol
5:30pm Potluck and evening program
Community Center - the Central School
34 N. Main Street
Orange
Pat Larson, 978.544.7035
March 1
Athol -- Royalston -- Winchendon
Walking in the morning from Hayley‰s Antiques: 488 S. Main Street
Lunch Royalston Public Library (on the common)
5:30pm Potluck and program
Church of the Unity (UU), 218 Central Street
Winchendon - next to post office
Patty Stanko, 978.297.0996
March 2
Winchendon -- Winchendon Center -- (Baldwinville) -- Gardner /
Westminster
6:00pm Potluck and program
Gardner Unitarian Church
66 Elm Street, Gardner
Pam Boudreau, 978.827.4408
March 3
Gardner / Westminster -- Mt. Wachusett -- Princeton (or Sterling)
Clifford Reiss, helping with evening program, 508.753.2520
Maia Duerr, exploring housing, 413.563.5197
March 4
Rest Day
March 5
(Sterling) -- Clinton -- Still River --Fruitlands -- Harvard
March 6
Harvard -- Stow -- Maynard -- StarMet -- Concord
March 7
Concord -- Carlisle -- Chelmsford -- Lowell
8:00am to 9:00am, vigil, Concord Center
March 8
Lowell -- Raytheon -- North Andover -- Haverhill
Noon to 1:00pm, Vigil for Justice in Lawrence
Arthur Brien, 978.686.4418
Raytheon Vigil (time pending)
Evening program, L‰Arche Irenicon
Swanna Champlin, 978.374.6928 / 978.372.2477
March 9
Haverhill -- Merrimac -- Newburyport
Contact: Kristina Olsen, 978.462.3446
March 10
Newburyport -- Rowley -- Ipswich -- Essex
Lunch, First Church, UCC
North Green of Ipswich, Rev. Brown
5:30pm Potluck at St. John‰s Episcopal Church, Gloucester
7:00pm Evening program - Brayton Shanley on Faith in the Face of
War
Overnight, Unitarian Universalist
Lisa Leland, 978.768.7006
March 11
Essex -- Beverly -- Salem -- Swampscott / Marblehead
St. Andrews Episcopal
135 Lafayette Street, Marblehead
6:30pm Potluck and Evening Program
Rev. Bean, 781.631.4951
March 12
Rest Day
Sara Lincoln Harrison, 781.631.1667
March 13
Swampscott -- Revere -- Chelsea -- Charlestown -- Dorchester
8:30am St. Andrews, blessing and prayer send off
March 14
Dorchester -- Quincy -- Hingham -- Cohasset -- Scituate
March 15
Scituate -- Marshfield -- Kingston --Plymouth
March 16
Plymouth -- Plympton -- Halifax --Bridgewater
March 17
Bridgewater -- Mansfield -- Foxboro
March 18
Foxboro -- Wrentham -- Franklin --Bellingham -- Milford
March 19
Milford -- Holliston -- Sherborn -- Natick
March 20
Natick -- Wellesley -- Newton --Cambridge
March 21: The
First Day of Spring!
Cambridge -- Downtown Boston --State House -- City Hall -- JFK
Plaza
Two Peace Walks Arrive in Boston
Wake Up Peace! sponsored by the Nipponzan Myhoji Buddhist Order
and
the Interfaith Spring Walk for Peace sponsored by Women of Faith
at Mt. Holyoke College
8:15am, Assemble at Christ Church, 0 (zero) Garden Street (Harvard
Sq. MBTA stop on the Red Line)
8:30am, begin walk down Mass Ave.
9:00am, Cambridge City Hall, Mass Ave. near Inman Street (Central
Sq. MBTA stop on the Red Line)
Then follow Mass Ave. across the river to Boston; left at Commonwealth
Ave.; right at Dartmouth Street
10:30am, Trinity Church, Copley Square (Copley Square stop on
Green Line or Back Bay stop on Orange Line)
11:30am, Massachusetts State House, Beacon Street (Park Stop on
Red and Green Lines)
12:00pm, Interfaith Ceremony with Elected Officials, Boston City
Hall Plaza near City Hall and Federal Building (Government Center Stop on Green
Line)
