Make Way for Ducklings
Nancy Schön’s bronze of Mrs. Mallard and her eight ducklings (1987), forever mid-waddle toward the lagoon — dressed by Bostonians for every season and cause.
Part of the connected record of this place — 2 relationships link it into the wider graph, each one a thread worth pulling.
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Now, then, future
Every object is temporal: what it feels like now, what it used to mean, and what it can become next.
lively. Best now: one good detour.
1588: Puritan lawyer and first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588–1649), who led the 1630 fleet and framed the settlement as “a city upon a hill.
Future2026: America’s 250th — July 4, 2026.
How it feels right now
Indoor escapes within a few blocks.
Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.
How strongly the nearby graph reads as campus life.
Fame, landmark pull, and visitor-facing assets.
Older records and historical edges around this object.
Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.
Routes with a point of view
Chosen moves from here
Human recommendations
What this meant before
- Established
- 1987
- Address
- Public Garden, Boston
- Graph connections
- 2
In the graph 2 relationships — first-class data, not links
Explore Make Way for Ducklings in the interactive Graph Explorer — click to expand every connection →Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk
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Make Way for Ducklings is linked, through the graph, to Boston — city, 13 min walk away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.
Keep exploring graph-powered — every path below is a real relationship, not a guess
One record, 1 framing cross-property publishing — never duplicated
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Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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