Students from the JFK Elementary School in Jamaica Plain visited the 23-acre Wakefield estate in Milton at the end of the school year to learn about science and nature, while teens (bottom right) took part in a two-week archeological dig on the property.
(Photos By Kayana Szymczak for The Boston Globe)
A will to learn
Milton widow left a unique estate — and mandate to explore it
Students from the JFK Elementary School in Jamaica Plain visited the 23-acre Wakefield estate in Milton at the end of the school year to learn about science and nature, while teens (bottom right) took part in a two-week archeological dig on the property.
(Photos By Kayana Szymczak for The Boston Globe)
M ILTON — When 90-year-old Mary May “Polly’’ Binney Wakefield died in 2004, she left behind a 23-acre estate that had been in her family for almost 300 years, and all they’d collected in that time — everything from towering piles of junk mail to leather-bound books dating from the 1600s. (Full article: 952 words)
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