Marcine Karon, 96, looks back contentedly on a life in Cambridgeport and says she wouldn’t have wanted to spend her life anywhere else.

In National Native American Heritage Month, remember that Indigenous stories are still being created as well as commemorated in the past. The story of Indigenous Cambridge is still being written.

The Washington Elm might be called a dead metaphor – it’s invoked, but those who invoke it largely have no clue of its origins and meaning.

It is worth remembering its origins as Armistice Day and understanding the sense of hope that accompanied the end of World War I and what the world hoped would be a new dawn of international peace and security.

An almshouse and entire Poor Farm property was Influenced by the American prison reform movement of the 19th century to be a place where those who were able could be “redeemed” and lifted out of poverty through vigorous physical labor, especially farming.

Public meetings this week look at Participatory Budgeting and American Rescue Plan Act funding, zoning for noise relief, giving the city more control over public health and removing a church weathervane for repairs.

What was the Washington Elm, and how did it attain such a powerful hold over the popular imagination over generations in Cambridge and well beyond?

Does the American Revolution matter? What, if anything, can it teach us today? Who and what has been left out of previous commemorations, and how can we ensure that we tell a more complete version for all of Cambridge?

The cast and crew of “We Were Here” saw an opportunity to go beyond the written record to explore the lives and experiences of these women – as workers, but also as mothers, daughters, sisters and friends.

A debate begun before the Covid pandemic reached a landmark as Cambridge’s City Council accepted changes about the forming and running of Neighborhood Conservation Districts, boards that consider developments and reconstruction in architecturally significant neighborhoods.