May 17: Main Street Ideas and Innovators Tour
Sat May 17, 2025
2-3:30 pm
“Main Street Ideas and Innovators” Guided Tour
With Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta
Saturday, May 17, 2025
2-3:30 pm
Free; registration required
Meet outside the new inbound entrance to the Kendall Square MBTA station (next to the Ripple Cafe at 314 Main Street)
Limited space available
Weather date: Sunday, May 18 at 2 pm
About the tour
This guided tour on and around Main Street in Cambridge, between Kendall Square and Central Square, will highlight Cambridge’s legacy of innovative people and businesses, including sewing machine inventor Elias Howe; candy factories that have produced Junior Mints, NECCO wafers and Charleston Chews; 19th century journalist and author Margaret Fuller; and Polaroid founder Edwin Land. Cambridge residents and authors Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta will lead this journey through time and space, exploring the history of innovation in Cambridge and perhaps its future.
This 90-minute tour will begin at the new inbound entrance to the Kendall Square MBTA station (next to the Ripple Cafe at 314 Main Street) and end at Lafayette Square (371 Massachusetts Ave).
This tour is supported by the City of Cambridge and MA 250.
