Photos of the Wake Up the Earth Festival at South-West Corridor Park at Stony Brook in Jamaica Plain, Boston, today. The festival was founded in 1979 to celebrate a grassroots movement’s defeat of a highway that would have been constructed along what is now the park.


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Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
School of Honk performs at Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
School of Honk performs at Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Maypole at Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Maypole at Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
School of Honk performs at Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
School of Honk performs at Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Foundation Movement performs at Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Foundation Movement performs at Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)