History Hub has stories of women to celebrate changing Cambridge since Battle of Bunker Hill
As this Women’s History Month draws to a close, History Cambridge invites you to learn more about some of the women who have had an impact on the community and to think about stories that haven’t yet been told.
The Tot Lot child care nears a 50th anniversary with the same cooperative model from its birth
Tot Lot was the first child care center in 1970s working-class Cambridgeport, and was designed to have parents working in the classrooms alongside the teachers.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Pi Day celebrations to a ‘Cherry Orchard’
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Pi Day arrives (one event starts at 3:14 p.m.), there are nature walks and seed plantings, board game nights and cozy teas, sacred songs and the scoring of a silent film, St. Patrick’s Day, a “Cherry Orchard” staging and the chance to break a world record.
Family of Peter Valentine will sell house of artist to be turned into affordable homes by Just A Start
The colorful Cambridge home of late artist Peter Valentine, who transformed the property into a public art piece called Cosmic Moose & Grizzly Bearsville, will be transformed again into at least a dozen affordable homes, the nonprofit developer Just A Start said.
Decision nears on the future of an artist’s home, with some aspects of origins in the 1980s murky
The death of eccentric artist Peter Valentine, whose mystically decorated house has been proposed as an arts center, has resurrected the tangled history of rent control in Cambridge and exposed conflicting stories about Valentine’s financial resources.
Urgency around civilian crisis response team grinds to a halt over whether it takes 911 calls
An order underlining support for a new, citizen-led unarmed emergency response team known as Heart will wait at least two weeks for a vote, after it was pulled temporarily from consideration for “a little more time to work out concerns” about wording.
Cambridgeport’s Sub Zero Nitrogen Ice Cream finally gets its grand opening event this month
Dessert lovers who got excited about a Sub Zero Nitrogen Ice Cream shop coming to Cambridgeport can finally look forward to a grand opening March 21, including a raffle with a chance to win free treats for a year.
Growing up in Cambridgeport has been idyllic, but Gen Zers see the area changing around them
Neither Nora Sokolovska nor Katrina Pallais can imagine a better place to grow up than Cambridgeport. And the 17-year-olds don’t just mean in comparison to other Cambridge neighborhoods. They mean on the face of the earth.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from ‘Birnam Wood’ to ‘Podcast But Outside’
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, author Eleanor Catton visits from “Birnam Wood” and Margaret Atwood tells of “Old Babes in the Wood”; there’s music, comedy, a Maple Syrup Boil Down and queer wrestling, an end to “Bittersweet” art and the “Podcast But Outside” guys set up in Davis Square.
The War of 1812 sank trade in Cambridgeport, risking good livings at sea for Black residents
The military and diplomatic skirmishes of the early 19th century created greater opportunities for Black sailors, as shipowners and captains took any able-bodied men they could find, regardless of race.
