Boylston Section

This guide to the Boylston Section of the Fenway Victory Gardens in Boston follows the seven acres of rented topsoil reclaimed from marshland along the Muddy River, and a name scratched off a ballot the night before a Victory Garden Board election in the late 1960s. It traces what a gardener running for that seat was accused of doing to his neighbors' plots, and how the community judged him without a trial. Look for the padlocks and wire mesh guarding today's beds, still a running theme decades later.