2010 Calendar

January

• Sunday January 24, 2010
  Cambridge Historical Society's 105th Annual Meeting
  2-4 p.m.
  The Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, 159 Brattle Street
  Election of council, officers and advisors and featuring a talk:
  
  

  Preserving Four Centuries of New England Homes: Historic New England and Its Stewardship Program by Joseph Cornish, senior stewardship manager for Historic New England.
  Joseph Cornish will discuss the history of Historic New England’s stewardship program, which now protects 76 privately owned historic properties across New England. Historic New England has also owned and preserved the Cooper-Frost-Austin House (pictured left), the oldest house in Cambridge, since 1912.

February

• Sunday February 21, 2010 2-4 PM
  At 159 Brattle Street
  The Cambridge Historical Society is happy to host a program by the Cambridge African American Heritage Alliance: The Next Health Frontier: Chronic Diseases in Africa by Dr. Michelle Holmes, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
  
  
  
• Sunday February 28, 2010 2-4 PM
  At 159 Brattle Street
  Folk Records
  The History of Folk Music in Cambridge
  Click here for photos of the event.
  
  

March

• Wednesday March 31, 2010
  Film screening of Perkins 28: Testimony from the secret court files of 1920 followed by question and answer with Michael Van Devere, the film's director. At the ART Theater - Zero Arrow Street - Harvard Square

  
  Click here for more information.

  As of 1:00 PM 3.31.10, this event is SOLD OUT. Sorry.

April

• Sunday April 25, 2010
  Dana Fellows Event
  Tour of 75 Henry Street in Cambridgeport with owner Frank Shirley, author of New Rooms for Old Houses: Beautiful Additions for the Traditional Home (National Trust for Historic Preservation).

May

• Sunday May 16, 2010
  2:00-4:30
  Athenaeum Press Building
  215 First Street, Cambridge
  

  

  
  
  Printed in Cambridge:
  From the First Printing Press to Digital Books, the History of Publishing and Innovation in Cambridge

  Featuring representatives of Google, the Cambridge Historical Commission, Ambit Press, and Firefly Press

  Cambridge was the home of the first printing press in the Americas. In a community known as the city of "firsts" - with the first sewing machine, the first center isle train car, and the first successful American use of a smallpox vaccine - the printing press was one of the most important. The Glover family brought it from England in 1639 with Stephen Daye, to operate it.

  Soon the city housed the second and third printing presses in North America and, by the nineteenth century, a thriving publishing industry. As the times have changed, so has Cambridge. The city was one of the primary sites where the World Wide Web was created, and now the city supports many of the companies in the forefront of digital information management.

  Tickets are $75 and the proceeds will help support the mission of the Cambridge Historical Society. To purchase tickets, Click here and return reply card with a check to:
  The Cambridge Historical Society
  159 Brattle Street
  Cambridge Mass 02138

June

• Sunday June 13, 2010
  The Hooper-Lee-Nichols House will be open for participants in the "Secret Gardens Tour" hosted by the friends of the Cambridge Public Library.

July

• Open Archives Tour
  Featuring a behind the scences look at four archives in Cambridge
  

August

The Cambridge Discovery Days

Each year a group of organizations and tour leaders in Cambridge team up to provide free tours and activities all across the city on two Saturdays.

Click here to learn more

• August 7, 2010
  
  Culinary Cambridge - Our City's Role in Shaping America's Love of Fine Food
  See photos and more information
  
  The Cambridge Historical Society's Second Annual Photo Scanning Day:
  More information
  
  Conversations with Margaret Fuller: “. . . food
  and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
  By Jessa Piaia, Women in History Programs
  See photos
  
  
• August 14, 2010
  
  William James in Cambridge
  See photos
  
  

September

• September 12, 2010
  Rounder Founders Remember Recording Records
  2:00 - 4:00
  
  Rounder Records has been one of the great producers of folk and traditional music recordings since the early 1970s. “The Rounders” were inspired by the Cambridge folk scene as much as anything and the label was based in Cambridge for almost all of its 40-year existence.
  
  The three Rounder founders are pleased to present the New England Folk Music Archives and the Cambridge Historical Society with a collection of their recordings that comprises the bulk of their work. The Rounder founders will make the presentation and discuss the history of the label and the diverse musical genres that they have produced and preserved.
  
  Sunday September 12, 2010 2:00-4:00
  At The Cambridge Historical Society
  159 Brattle Street Cambridge
  Please RSVP (rsvp@cambridgehistory.org)
  This is a free event
  

October

• October 2, 2010
  12:00-7:00 in Dana Park
  Cambridgeport History Day
  See details here
  This is a free event
  
  
• October 14, 2010
  6:30 - 9:30 at the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House
  Antiques, Heirlooms and Keepsakes
  Appraisal Reception
  The Historical Society will host a benefit and reception with a focus on antiques. Carl Nordbloom of CRN Auctions will be on hand to help you determine the value and understand the history of family heirlooms.
  Tickets are $50; $20 for each item appraised

November

• November 3, 2010
  6:00-7:30 at The Brattle Theater
  Left on Pearl: Women Take Over 888 Memorial Drive
  Preview and Question and Answer with the filmmaker
  In 1971, Women’s Day marchers took over a Harvard building at 888 Memorial Drive, declaring it a Women’s Center. This documentary film highlights this significant event in Second Wave feminist history.
  Tickets will be available by October 1, 2010

December

• December 1, 2010
  6:00-8:00 at the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House
  How To Workshop: How to digitize and archive historic photos, art and memorabilia
  This workshop will teach the correct way to digitize historic images to create an archival quality file without damaging the original. This program will be hosted by Cynthia Brennan, former Rights and Imaging Coordinator for the American Antiquarian Society and currently in charge of the IMLS grant funded photo digitization project at CHS.
  Registration is required

• December 8, 2010
  5:30-8:00 at the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House
  Holiday Party