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.

Public meetings this week look at administering the latest (and next) elections; the school district’s teen health survey; a real estate “linkage” fee leap; spending $65 million in American Rescue Plan money; and plans for – and protections of – the city’s Gas-Light and American Friends buildings.

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?

The Abbot, a four-story block of retail, offices and restaurants due to open early next year in the heart of Harvard Square, is already signing leases – including one that brought groans from Historical Commission members.

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.

Public meetings this week look at bike lane installation issues, a freeze on labs and offices around Alewife, a new universal playground at Danehy Park, a bunch of potential landmarking and property tear-downs, raising developer linkage fees, redesigning Cambridge Street and much more.

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.

Public meetings this week look at upgrading the city’s fleet if vehicles for hazardous materials crises and to allow in more electric and hybrid options; Gas Light Building landmarking and hotel plan; and bringing a full pet hospital to the Fresh Pond area.

Unless you have a parking space in Stone Court, chances are you have driven right past it without noticing. In olden times you would have shuddered as you passed – because then it was known as “The Way to Gallows Hill.”