Frederick Hastings Rindge, Cambridge’s most important individual benefactor, was a ‘‘townie’’ who entered Harvard in 1875 and left soon after – yet still made a series of significant financial gifts to the city used by current residents every day.

After just 22 women were admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. officials decided to improve the environment and resources available for female students. Katharine Dexter McCormick, from the Class of 1904, stepped in to bridge a gap between intention and construction.

In 1807, Harvard Street, heading from the West Boston Bridge toward Harvard College, had reached the eastern edge of Judge Francis Dana’s 50-acre estate, between today’s Lee and Hancock streets. Dana came up with a scheme to stop it there.

In the national spectrum of the “underground” press, the Old Mole was more toward the “politico” than the “hippie” end, but all the papers swam in the same countercultural sea. This Cambridge-based tabloid drew its name from an obscure speech by Karl Marx.

History Cambridge’s Fall Conversation heard from four speakers about the local food scene from the 20th century to the present, exploring how we ate, drank and found community in the restaurants, coffeehouses and ice cream shops.

History Cambridge seeks a young storytelling fellow to help identify, gather, interpret and amplify the experiences of what it’s like to grow up in our city.

At Thanksgiving, people blessed with plenty were called upon to extend aid to those less fortunate through donations of food, clothing and money. In its emphasis on family unity and charitable giving, it was a more prominent holiday even than Christmas.

Hear a panel discuss the coming of Asian, African, Latin American and Middle Eastern restaurants affected Cambridge in the 20th century. To what extent did they create a deeper awareness of the struggles and contributions of immigrants? How did eating “new” foods affect the political climate?

Veterans Day is an appropriate time to pay homage to the role North Cambridge and its residents have played in the military history of Massachusetts and the United States.

Richard Buckminster Fuller was an architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist – and a notoriously flop as a Harvard College student. But he had more positive experiences in Cambridge, including a stint as a visiting Harvard professor in the early 1960s.