“If This House Could Talk…” 2011

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What happened in your neighborhood two, twenty, two hundred years ago? In October Cambridgeport residents, businesses and non-profits will post signs in front of their properties telling interesting tidbits from their recent or distant, personal or public past.

In October of 2009 over seventy signs cropped up for the first “If This House Could Talk…”; in 2010, over 110 signs. Signs told about whatever local residents found interesting:

  • Residents, including writers, social activists, Shakers, and “regular people”;
  • Houses extensively renovated or virtually untouched, built as wedding gifts or boarding houses;
  • A church where Martin Luther King and J.F.K. once spoke; and
  • Gardens that grow potatoes for homemade fries or colorful dahlias--and plots that grew wartime vegetables.
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We hope you will take part this year. Participation is easy:

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  • Contact Cathie Zusy (cathzusy@gmail.com or 617-868-0489), and let her know you are interested. She will deliver to you a sign, sign post, and balloons. Or, starting September 13, you may pick up a blank sign yourself in the Morse School lobby or at Gallery 263 (corner of Pearl & Putnam).
  • By September 29th, tell Cathie you are participating, and your location will be put on our official sign map.
  • By October 17th, e-mail your sign text to Cathie, and it will be included in the tour list posted on the Cambridge Historical Society website.
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If you want to research your building, please visit our handy list of resources, available here: "If this house could talk..." Resources

“If This House Could Talk…” is part of Cambridgeport History Day, organized by the Cambridgeport History Project, and is sponsored in part by the Cambridge Trust Company, the Cambridge Savings Bank, Forrest City and the Riverside Boat Club.

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