Planning and executing an outdoor festival for 1,000 people isn’t your typical teenage summer job, but 100 Boston-area teenagers employed as junior counselors in the Phillips Brooks House Association’s (PBHA) summer camps pulled it off without a hitch.
The junior counselors, who have been earning paychecks at a dozen Harvard student-run day camps in Cambridge and Boston neighborhoods this summer, were the brains and brawn behind a midsummer celebration that transformed the sleepy green hills of Stony Brook Park in Jamaica Plain.
“This is one of the only events in Boston and Cambridge that intentionally brings our different neighborhoods together to celebrate and support each other,” said Maria Dominguez Gray, Class of 1955 Executive Director of PBHA.
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