Posts Tagged ‘Oral History’
2021 History Café Recap
This spring, thanks to the generous support of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati and a grant from the Bridge Street Fund, a special initiative of Mass Humanities, History Cambridge was able to host two History Cafés exploring the rich history of the city’s Black community. Graduate intern Eshe Sherley created our Early Black Cambridge…
Read MoreCambridge Love Letters
Join us this summer at Starlight Square! We’re sharing your Cambridge Love Letters on June 8 and August 10.
Read MoreA Close-up of Huron Avenue
We always say, Everyone is a history ambassador. “A Close-up of Huron Avenue” shows just how true that is, no matter how old—or young—you are. Around 1980, Fayerweather Street School students, ages eight to eleven, conducted a five-month study of their neighborhood. At that time, the school was located at 74R Fayerweather Street (it moved…
Read More“Sweet Souls” Roundtable Discussion
Held on October 22, 2019 at the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House In 2019, the Cambridge Historical Society and the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, along with The Loop Lab, partnered on the Sweet Souls Oral History Project to document the role of the Fuller House in Cambridge. At the Roundtable Discussion, narrators and the project team…
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Sweet Souls, Voices from the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House in Cambridge Our 2019 Sweet Souls oral history project offers answers to questions of local engagement: What is the role of a settlement house institution like the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House in the history of engagement in Cambridge? How has the Fuller House–and the community that…
Read MoreRecap of 10/22/2019 Oral History Round Table
On Tuesday, October 22, the Cambridge Historical Society Oral History project team hosted a roundtable event at the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House. Diana Lempel, the Doing History curator at Cambridge Historical Society, led the oral history narrators, interviewers Katie Burke and Lina Raciukaitis, and Loop Lab recording team through a reflection on the Sweet Souls…
Read More“Sweet Souls” Oral History Project Underway
The Cambridge Historical Society has launched an oral history project, in partnership with the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House and The Loop Lab. This summer, “Sweet Souls, Voices from the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House in Cambridge” will be documenting the life stories of twelve people, or “narrators,” closely affiliated with the 117-year-old settlement house in the…
Read MoreMass Humanities Oral History Grant
In March, Mass Humanities awarded the Cambridge Historical Society $7,500 to conduct an oral history project. “Sweet Souls, Voices from the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House in Cambridge” will gather the personal stories and experiences of twelve people affiliated with the 112-year-old settlement house in the Port. Interviews will be conducted by Katie Burke and Lina…
Read More05/17/18: Past — Listening is Emotional Labor: For History and Culture Workers
We want to thank all of the listeners who participated in Diana Lempel’s workshop, part of our “doing” history series.
Read MoreWhen Sweet Flavors Filled the Air
by Michael Kenney When Orra L. Stone compiled his History of Massachusetts Industry in 1930, he counted no less than 29 candy-manufacturing firms in Cambridge. There were giants like the New England Confectionary Co., whose 1,400 workers produced some 500 varieties of candy, including the iconic NECCO wafers, at its plant on Massachusetts Avenue, and…
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