There are flying squirrels in the dark overhead, with occasional visits to backyard bird feeders
Did you know there are flying squirrels in Cambridge? If you haven’t seen one, it’s probably because flying squirrels are nocturnal. If you have, it might be because the squirrel visits your bird feeder at night.
‘Bones and All’: Searching for where she belongs consumes this cannibal teen
Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All” is definitely not a movie for a family, but it about family, roots and tradition, no matter how troubling that tradition may be.
Pillars of abolitionism and of their communities, but the family home is paved, the Clary name lost
An obituary described Francis Prince Clary as “custodian of the Harvard Chemical Laboratory for nearly his entire adult life”; a “natural musician”; “prominent in Masonry”; and a man who “held the esteem of the entire community.”
Games, grub and bluegrass at Lily P’s
Between the CambridgeSide mall and Kendall Square, Lily P’s is where you can lob cornhole beanbags, listen to bluegrass and nosh on buttermilk-battered fried chicken.
Harvard’s Cooke led new chemistry department, but Francis Prince Clary was who made it bubble
Today, Cambridge is a world center of biotechnology and biochemical engineering – but in the 1850s, Harvard was still building what would become one of the most forward-thinking university chemistry departments in the country. Francis Prince Clary was there.
Asian cone ice cream and mochi doughnut shop soft opens on Church Street in Harvard Square
Taiyaki NYC and The Dough Club are in a soft opening at 6 Church St., Harvard Square, and will open officially Dec. 2, a manager said Wednesday. Taiyaki sells ice cream in warm, fish-shaped cones made out of waffle batter; The Dough Club sells fluffy, chewy mochi doughnuts.
Francis Prince Clary was tireless in his advocacy, and even the music he performed was for equality
No personal writings left behind by Francis Prince Clary tell us his feelings about participating in some of the most important political and moral struggles in this country’s history. But the petitions he signed and events he took part in give a good idea of his zeal for justice.
Writer Amy Baron sees through her kids’ eyes, and through a bulldozer that paves its own path
The hero of Amy Baron’s “The Gentle Bulldozer” dreams of something bigger than working at construction sites – as Baron did as an optometrist who loved to write.
Francis Prince Clary is the 1800s Black chemist written out of Harvard and Cambridge history
Francis Prince Clary was known by some as a “character” – a person at Harvard but not considered by lore-keepers to be of Harvard. Yet Clary played an unusual and historic role at the university, and off campus he was a well-recognized figure in the Black abolitionist community.
Blank Street Coffee, known for bland efficiency, to open in a former Harvard Square Starbucks
Coffee is coming back to the Harvard Square location that Starbucks left a year ago – but in place of that two-story space with lots of room for studying and first dates it marks the coming of a chain known for being no place at all: Blank Street Coffee.
