May 7: Jerry’s Pond Fest

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History Cambridge is pleased to co-sponsor Jerry’s Pond Fest. The Friends of Jerry’s Pond are celebrating their 7th Earth Day and you are all invited. There will be music, Bangladeshi dance, food, arts & crafts, Native American Fish Weir, and many activities for both kids and adults. Meet your neighbors to celebrate the planned reopening of Jerry’s Pond, and meet members of the IQHQ team and community groups. Come make art, see Audubon’s animals, remove invasive species, weed native gardens, clean around the pond, and, of course, stop by the History Cambridge table!

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The Downside of Progress

By Doug Brown, 2017 Cambridge has made a lot of things over the centuries, not all of them valuable. Our manufacturing history has its dirty, dangerous downside, and dealing with the hazards and by-products of production has always been a challenge in this jam-packed, 7.1-square-mile city. By the end of the 19th century, the technological…

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Series V. North Cambridge

Links to all the Postcard Collection gallery pages and the Finding Aid can be found by clicking here. *Postcard was used.

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Chestnut Trees in Cambridge by Jason Weksner, Arborist

American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) have all but vanished from Massachusetts landscapes, thanks to the fungal pathogen Cryphonectria parasitica, commonly known as chestnut blight. The lovely horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) from Europe, although a different genus from our native chestnut tree, has now established itself in the local landscape. While smaller than the American chestnut,…

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