Posts Tagged ‘COVID-19’
History Cambridge looks back on ‘Good Riddance 2020’ event
Did you participate in our “Good Riddance 2020” event? How do you look back at that event three years later? Have your hopes for 2021 (and beyond) come to fruition? What do you see as the legacy of these past several years in the Cambridge community?
Read MoreHistory Café Recap: Pandemic Roadshow
As 2021 and our year of asking “How Does Cambridge Mend?” came to a close, we invited you to think about the objects that have symbolized the pandemic experience for you, your family and your community. On December 16 we gathered via Zoom to share objects and discuss the importance of tangible symbols of the…
Read MoreCOVID-19 Memorial
March 2021 marks the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. To honor the Cantabrigians who have died, we are installing markers on the lawn of our headquarters, the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House. Each marker, a butterfly, a symbol of hope and the shape of Cambridge itself, represents a life lost to the virus and a missing piece…
Read MoreBusinesses Well Lived
As part of our ongoing work to capture Cambridge history, we partnered with Cambridge Local First to reach out to local small business owners and find out how the pandemic has affected their livelihood.
Read MoreThe Pandemic Post: Youth in Cambridge Respond to COVID-19
Over the last several months, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned all our worlds upside down. But what has this upheaval looked like for young people in Cambridge? This spring, students at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School created The Pandemic Post, an online newsletter in which they reflected on their experiences through art, poetry and prose.…
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Read MoreSmallpox, cholera, influenza around Cambridge: How the region endured pandemics of the past
By Martha HenryApril 2020 Reproduced from cambridgeday.com with permission We’re weeks into the Covid-19 pandemic, most of us stuck at home, trying to work, educate children or, when that all seems futile, just clicking “next episode” on whatever escapist show we’re binging on Netflix. Our coronavirus, social-distancing spring seems unprecedented. But it isn’t. New England has…
Read More100 Years Ago: Cambridge leading up to the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
Red Cross workers make anti-influenza masks for soldiers in camp. Boston. Courtesy National Archives, photo no. 165-WW-269B-026 By Elizabeth Adams Lasser, April 2020 During the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020 as we quarantine at home, we have seen many references and comparisons in the national media to the influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919. What was happening…
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