As part of the successful Outside// programming, MASCO announced that food trucks will continue to be available for lunch in the Longwood Area for October. Food trucks will be at 2 Blackfan Circle Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Please wear a mask and stay socially distanced from other people when visiting a food truck. The October schedule can be found at longwoodoutside.org and regular updates, including how to order ahead, will be posted on twitter.com/MASCOLMA.

Laura Oggeri will be joining MASCO as its first Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs.

It’s officially summer and you know what that means! Outside//, the MASCO and member-sponsored placemaking program, is returning for its second year Monday, July 13^th, 2020.  The yellow umbrellas are back along with outdoor furniture and fun things to do around the LMA.

Outside// began in 2019 with the goal of providing opportunities for those who work and visit the LMA to take a pause from their day.

For over three decades, MASCO has made the Longwood Medical Area greener. As a health-focused community, this is just one of the many ways that MASCO and its members have combined sustainability with the mental and physical wellbeing of the community and its visitors.

David Sweeney has been appointed President and CEO of MASCO, the Medical, Academic and Scientific Community Organization for Boston’s 210-acre Longwood Medical and Academic community, the LMA. Currently Chief of Staff to Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Sweeney is a longtime public servant with significant public policy and operational leadership experience who was selected after an extensive regional search.

Photo: William Bossen

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Food Truck Fridays is a MASCO sponsored program that began in the summer of 2016. A variety of vendors are invited to 375 Longwood Avenue from 11am-2pm each Friday from May-September.

For the summer of 2019, two trucks came each Friday: a lunch truck paired with a dessert truck, to make sure that everyone's cravings were satisfied. The vendors and schedule for the summer of 2020 are not yet available, but will be published in the spring of 2020.

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Dana-Farber modernized its logo and that of the Jimmy Fund with a blue and gold palette. The logos have not been changed in more than 20 years.

TUESDAY, September 10th Author Christina Thompson is OUTSIDE and will discuss her latest book THE POLYNESIAN TRIANGLE, which delves into an area of ten million square miles, defined by the three points of Hawai‘i, New Zealand, and Easter Island. All the islands inside this triangle were originally settled by a clearly identifiable group of voyagers: a people with a single language and set of customs, a distinctive arsenal of tools and skills, and a collection of plants and animals that they carried with them wherever they went.