All posts tagged "Cambridge"
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1.9K6MassachusettsJulia Child Falls in Love in Ceylon
Julia Child would never have become Julia Child, The French Chef on WGBH, had she not gone to the jungles of Ceylon...
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2.7K2MassachusettsApril 8, 1775: The Provincial Congress of Massachusetts Resolves To Raise an Army — And To Tell Everyone
Eleven days before the shot heard ‘round the world, a committee of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts met in Cambridge and resolved...
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4.6K3MassachusettsA Sweet Story About Conversation Hearts
Centuries before a Cambridge, Mass., candy company started making conversation hearts in 1901, British men and women exchanged ‘kissing comfits’ to sweeten...
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4.1K9UncategorizedWilliam Tudor Falls In Love With A Loyalist
William Tudor fell in love with a loyalist. It was an awkward position for a rebel who would become the first judge...
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5.4K4MassachusettsU.S. Figure Skating: From a Flooded Field in Cambridge to the Olympic Games
Figure skating in America owes much to the flooding of a field belonging to a daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the...
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9.2K13UncategorizedThe Middlesex Canal, New England’s Incredible Ditch
The Middlesex Canal, now largely forgotten, was a 27-mile waterway that drove the industrialization of the Merrimack Valley for 50 years starting...
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3.5K5MassachusettsThe Boston Pops Orchestra Takes a Sleigh Ride
The much-loved Christmas song Sleigh Ride was written during an August heat wave for the Boston Pops Orchestra. It didn't even have...
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3.8K3MassachusettsHow the Longfellow Bridge Got its Name
Elbridge Gerry was the first person allowed to walk over the new West Boston Bridge connecting Boston and Cambridge 220 years ago...
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10.2K6UncategorizedWhen New England Candy Was King: 15 Sweet Facts
New England candy ruled the American confectionery industry from colonial times right through the mid 1900s. Many candy makers made their sugary...
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3.6K9MassachusettsTwo Different Bostons Shaped Malcolm X and MLK (Pt. 1)
When Martin Luther King, Jr., moved to Boston in 1951 to study for his graduate degree in philosophy, Malcolm X was already...