All posts tagged "Cambridge"
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2.3K6Arts and LeisureJulia 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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3.5K2MassachusettsApril 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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5.7K3Business and LaborA 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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5.3K9MassachusettsWilliam 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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7.4K4Arts and LeisureU.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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11.4K13Business and LaborThe 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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4.3K5Arts and LeisureThe 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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4.7K3MassachusettsHow 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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13.3K6Business and LaborWhen 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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4.5K10MassachusettsTwo 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...
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