2nd Annual BSLUG Clambake August 25 in Nahant

Save the Date--Aug. 25 for 2nd Annual BSLUG Clambake

If you missed this last year, don't let it happen again--join us for this extraordinary event!  Check out the fabulous photos from last year taken by Steve Vincent.

On Saturday, August 25, on Canoe Beach at East Point, Nahant (location of the Northeastern Marine Science Center), we will participate in creating an authentic New England clambake.

Under the direction of Joe Ayers, clambake organizer extraordinaire and Northeastern professor at the Marine Science Center, we will cook lobsters and steamer clams using traditional techniques.

This is the drill: we dig a pit, fill it with rocks and cord wood, light it and let it burn down. We then cover it with fresh seaweed and place frames containing lobsters, steamer clams, codfish, salmon, Fenway franks, corn on the cob, sweet onions and potatoes. We then cover this with a tarp soaked in seawater, seal the edges and let it steam.

We'll pull this off for $20-25/person (children negotiable), with an additional infusion of BSLUG funds.

For those of you who want this real experience, it will be an all day affair. Otherwise, dinner will probably be ready around 6:30 p.m. Pray for great weather!  Last year it was so warm and lovely we went swimming at what felt like our own private beach.

All family and friends are welcome. RSVP DEADLINE SAT. AUGUST 4

Questions? Just send Beata an email (beata dot panagopoulos at verizon dot net)

Photo Album from Boston Holocaust Memorial Tour, May 5, 2012

Check out the photos from the Boston Holocaust Memorial Tour led by Colin Flavin, (Flavin Architects).  Thank you for a fabulous morning, Colin!

New England Holocaust Memorial Tour

Colin Flavin, AIA (Stevenson ’80, Art & Environmental Studies) and The Boston Chapter of the UCSC Alumni Association Invite you to a special tour of the New England Holocaust Memorial and the Boston Greenway Saturday, May 5, 2012, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm No-host lunch to follow at Faneuil Hall. Please meet at the Memorial at Congress and Hanover Streets.  Alumni, students, parents and friends of UC Santa Cruz are most welcome! Please RSVP online by April 27, 2012 The New England Holocaust Memorial has received international acclaim for its moving design, touching words and names, and its one-of-a-kind, outside location. Created and funded entirely by the greater Boston community, the Memorial is situated on a lovely walkway that has been transformed into an extraordinary place of remembrance. Colin Flavin, AIA, is the Founding Principal of Flavin Architects in Boston and uniquely qualified to lead this special tour of the Memorial. In a world of computer-generated design work, he still goes back to his UCSC roots of being an avid sketch artist, hand-drawing interesting buildings or architectural details that continually expands his repertoire. At MIT, where Colin received his Masters of Architecture, he was awarded the Chamberlain Prize for Design Excellence. Prior to founding Flavin Architects in 1991, he was an Associate at Benjamin Thompson & Associates, working as a designer on projects that included Union Station in Washington, D.C. and South Street Seaport in New York City, as well as some of the firms unique beach houses on Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod.  Under his stewardship, Flavin Architects has won state and national design awards and the firm's work has appeared in a number of publications.