Author: Jorge Schuhmacher

Monarch Butterflies

Monarch Butterflies

As they do every year, monarch butterflies visited the park this summer adding new life and color to the gardens. This article from Karen Usas, a long time IPP volunteer, gives an excellent insight on the wonders of these insects. Unfortunately, the extensive use of 

Dassault Systemes Day of Service

Dassault Systemes Day of Service

Many thanks to the amazing group of Dassault Systemes volunteers for all the weeding , pruning and cleaning in park on Friday, September 16. Your ongoing commitment to the park is much appreciated!

Climate Crisis Call to Action

Climate Crisis Call to Action

As part of the Sierra Club nationwide climate crisis call to action and to Celebrate Earth day, Friends of India Point Park organized an event at the park, inviting visitors to call our RI senators and to urge them pass comprehensive climate legislation. Many stopped 

2022 Earth Day celebration!

2022 Earth Day celebration!

Many thanks to the 20 plus volunteers that came to the park Saturday for a morning of hard work, cleaning and sprucing up the pedestrian bridge and ramps. The result: a park that looks as ready as ever for a blooming spring and the new 

RISD Alumni Club of RI Founder’s Day service

RISD Alumni Club of RI Founder’s Day service

Thank you for a second year of fantastic volunteer work at India Point Park! Together, you trimmed all the ornamental grasses and cleaned the bridge gardens, making them ready for a new season to spring forth!

Why aren’t the waterfront power lines buried?

Why aren’t the waterfront power lines buried?

Don’t miss the Op-Ed in the Providence Journal today (2/27/2022) “Why aren’t the waterfront power lines buried?” and if interested to go deeper, there is a lot of related info here.  

Dassault Systemes Day of Service

Dassault Systemes Day of Service

A group of 13 volunteers from Dassault Systemes were at the park on September 17 clearing invasive weeds, mulching, taking down invasive trees, thinning aggressive native trees, and pulling out massive invasive vines. Thank you so much for your hard work and helping us to 

New Faces !

New Faces !

Volunteers from the Adopt-A-Spot program were hard at work weeding and mulching the pedestrian bridge and ramps this last weekend,  May 4 & 5. Lila and Shaquan recently joined the program and are part of the large group that signed up this spring to volunteer. 

Spring Planting

Spring Planting

More than 30 new plants were added to the ramps and the pedestrian bridge on May 15 under the guidance of our landscape designer Tysh McGrail and volunteers from the Adopt-a-Spot program.   The list includes azaleas, salvias, two large Hawthorns, junipers, hydrangeas and many 

Second Annual Bird Walk

Second Annual Bird Walk

Thirteen  bird watcher enthusiasts participated in our second annual FIPP bird walk, Saturday May 8. We recorded 19 species and one of the highlights was watching an egret and a great blue heron fly up from the shoreline near us. Big thanks to Lisa Maloney