Public unveiling of the White Pine Gathering Circle monument design featuring the Wampanoag Singers and Dancers
MEDIA CONTACT: Steven Peters | Lead Designer, SmokeSygnals | steven@smokesygnals.com | 774-219-9747
BOSTON, MA -- The Wampanoag Consulting Alliance and project partners will publicly unveil the final design for the White Pine Gathering Circle, a proposed monument and gathering place for Scarboro Hill in Franklin Park. The event will include a performance by the Wampanoag Singers and Dancers. The design emerged through a community-driven process with the state and federally recognized Wampanoag Tribes and centers the Creation Story and its continuing teachings about reciprocity, balance, and stewardship of land and water. SmokeSygnals, a Native American production company, led the monument design and will lead fabrication and installation if funding is realized.
Learn more at https://smokesygnals.com/white-pine-gathering-monument
WHAT
A public ceremony and presentation unveiling the final White Pine Gathering Circle monument design, including a performance by the Wampanoag Singers and Dancers, remarks on the community process, the Creation Story, the selected Franklin Park location, and the project's next stages.
WHO
Representatives of the Wampanoag Consulting Alliance, Tribal leaders and community members, the Wampanoag Singers and Dancers, project advisors, SmokeSygnals, the Native American production company that led the monument design, invited City of Boston partners, artists, educators, historians, and members of the public.
WHEN
Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 2:00 PM.
WHERE
Scarboro Hill, Franklin Park, Boston, Massachusetts.
GPS/Parking: Franklin Park Tennis Courts
Circuit Drive, Boston, MA 02124
Follow event signs from the parking area.
WHY
The White Pine Gathering Circle is intended to restore Indigenous presence to Boston's civic landscape through a monument shaped by the Tribal communities whose history, living culture, and responsibilities are connected to this place. The project is conceived as both a major public artwork and a functional setting for gathering, teaching, reflection, and intertribal connection.
Design Overview
The approved concept includes an outer ring of live White Pine trees, Corten steel columns that step down toward circular stone seating, and a central water element surrounding a large coil-built clay cooking pot representing Maushop. Red light beneath the pot evokes fire, while small stone puckwudgies are placed among the columns as details discovered within the landscape. The monument is designed to function as a living gathering circle rather than a static object. SmokeSygnals will lead fabrication and installation if funding is realized.
