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Are you curious about Cambridge? Participate in an upcoming event. You’ll learn something about your City’s history and why it matters.

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The Basket Club and Mask-Making: The Fabric of Mending in Cambridge
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2021Time: 7:00-8:00 p.m. Place: Via Zoom (register below!) In 1873 Emily […]
Five Senses Over Five Centuries Tour
Engage all your senses as you explore the c.1685 Hooper-Lee-Nichols House with costumed guide […]

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Keeping #CambridgeMA curious for over 100 years! Headquartered at the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House at 159 Brattle St. #historymatters #EngageCambridge

Our friends at @cambridgepubliclibrary are hosting

Our friends at @cambridgepubliclibrary are hosting Linked Descendants: African American Genealogy Prior to 1870 tomorrow. Register: https://buff.ly/3sKoQ9e⠀
#blackhistory #localhistory #cambma #africanamericanhistory

#ICYMI watch The Basket Club and Mask-Making: The

#ICYMI watch The Basket Club and Mask-Making: The Fabric of Mending in Cambridge with Deputy Superintendent Pauline Wells of the @cambridgepolice. https://youtu.be/kD1ZaNx-Vug⠀
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#cambma #handwork #covid19 #pandemic #masks #handwork #localhistory

Happy Easter! #happyeaster #easter #easter2021 #sp

Happy Easter! #happyeaster #easter #easter2021 #spring

Last night's event, The Basket Club and Mask-Makin

Last night's event, The Basket Club and Mask-Making: The Fabric of Mending in Cambridge, was fantastic. Programs Manager Beth Folsom kicked things off by asking what everyone's favorite mask is. One attendee held up her lobster-patterned mask, made by her mother-in-law.⠀
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Special guest Deputy Superintendent Pauline Wells of the Cambridge Police Department shared some fascinating and heartwarming stories about her experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Wells estimated that the Cambridge PD gave out over 30,000 masks through the first few months of the pandemic. "It's the hardest I've ever worked in my life," she said. ⠀
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Wells shared the story of a couple from West Cambridge. She remembered that the husband was a cab driver who served as a translator in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan and asked if his wife could make masks for the police department. She delivered 400 handmade masks that had "Cambridge Police" emblazoned on them.⠀
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"They were people of meager means, helping us at the police department," said Wells.⠀
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#covid19 #pandemic #cambma #cambridgepolice #handwork #masks #handmade

Join us TONIGHT for The Basket Club and Mask-Makin

Join us TONIGHT for The Basket Club and Mask-Making: The Fabric of Mending in Cambridge on Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 7 PM EDT⠀
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Register for the Zoom link: https://buff.ly/2P6H3zl⠀
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In this program, we will peer into our archives to discuss the legacy of the Basket Club and how Cantabrigians created handmade donations in times of crisis. We will also be joined by Deputy Superintendent Pauline Wells of the Cambridge Police Department who will discuss the City's mask drive and its effect on both the makers and recipients. We hope you will join us for a thoughtful and informative discussion of the role that handmade donations can make in the mending of a community during challenging times⠀
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#localhistory #cambma #handwork #mending

Join us TOMORROW for The Basket Club and Mask-Maki

Join us TOMORROW for The Basket Club and Mask-Making: The Fabric of Mending in Cambridge on Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 7 PM EDT⠀
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Register for the Zoom link: https://buff.ly/2P6H3zl⠀
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In this program, we will peer into our archives to discuss the legacy of the Basket Club and how Cantabrigians created handmade donations in times of crisis. We will also be joined by Deputy Superintendent Pauline Wells of the Cambridge Police Department who will discuss the City's mask drive and its effect on both the makers and recipients. We hope you will join us for a thoughtful and informative discussion of the role that handmade donations can make in the mending of a community during challenging times⠀
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#localhistory #cambma #handwork #mending

Chag Sameach - Happy Passover #passover2021 #happy

Chag Sameach - Happy Passover #passover2021 #happypassover #chagsameach #matzoh #seder

@cambridge_cf remembers Humanitarian Tunney Lee. H

@cambridge_cf remembers Humanitarian Tunney Lee. He was a pillar in Boston Chinatown and he dedicated much of his life to preserving the neighborhood and strengthening community bonds for future generations.

https://cambridgecf.org/cambridge-remembers-tunney-lee/

William Henry Lewis, a graduate of Amherst College

William Henry Lewis, a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, was an outstanding athlete and an orator for his college class (1892). He carried on a successful law practice in Boston, served on the Cambridge City Council, was elected to the Massachusetts legislature, and was appointed assistant attorney general of the United States.

When a barber refused to serve a Black man, Lewis contemplated filing a lawsuit; later, he took even more effective action.

The Cambridge and Boston press followed the event closely. On Friday, March 26, 1893, the Boston Daily Globe quoted the barber as saying, “I’m sorry the event happened, but I cannot do anything about it now. I think it will all blow over in a few days.”

#otd #OnThisDay #localhistory #CambMA #BIPOC #BlackHistory

https://cambridgehistory.org/research/william-henry-lewis-1868-1949-lawyer-athlete-public-servant/

Today is your last chance to see our COVID-19 Memo

Today is your last chance to see our COVID-19 Memorial to honor the Cantabrigians lost to the pandemic. Our display at our headquarters comes down today. Visit us at the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, located at 159 Brattle Street.⠀
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This March 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 in the mosaic of stories that together make up the history of Cambridge. The installation will be up through March 26. ⠀
https://buff.ly/2PQmd7f #covid19 #memorial #cambma

History Hive: Anne from North Cambridge was listen

History Hive: Anne from North Cambridge was listening to our North Cambridge Self-Guided Tour and wondered about the dump on Smith Place in the Highlands - what are your memories of it?⠀
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#historyhive #cambma #northcambridge #tour #tours⠀
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https://buff.ly/3cm4ZY6

Join us for The Basket Club and Mask-Making: The F

Join us for The Basket Club and Mask-Making: The Fabric of Mending in Cambridge on Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 7 PM EDT⠀
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Register for the Zoom link: https://buff.ly/2P6H3zl⠀
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In this program, we will peer into our archives to discuss the legacy of the Basket Club and how Cantabrigians created handmade donations in times of crisis. We will also be joined by Deputy Superintendent Pauline Wells of the Cambridge Police Department who will discuss the City's mask drive and its effect on both the makers and recipients. We hope you will join us for a thoughtful and informative discussion of the role that handmade donations can make in the mending of a community during challenging times⠀
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#localhistory #cambma #handwork #mending

Celebrate International Women’s Day with a thoug

Celebrate International Women’s Day with a thoughtful discussion with Mayor Siddiqui. Our mayor is an accomplished woman with deep roots in Cambridge and interests in issues that impact our City's residents. The United Nation's announced this year's theme as Women in Leadership; Achieving an Equal Future in a COVID-19 World. It celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the pandemic. Cambridge Council on Aging. Free. Learn more: https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Files/DHSP/COA/CoaNews.pdf

Live online
Tuesday, Mar 30
1:00–2:00 pm

Because the enslaved women associated with our hea

Because the enslaved women associated with our headquarters, the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, have been lost to the historical record, we are taking this moment to honor and remember them and their contributions to Cambridge history.

#BlackHistoryMatters #womenshistorymonth2021

This March marks the one-year anniversary of the C

This March 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 in the mosaic of stories that together make up the history of Cambridge. The installation will be up through March 26.⠀
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https://buff.ly/2PQmd7f #covid19 #pandemic #cambma #localhistory

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