The Commission has recently begun an exciting new oral history project on Area 4, also known as the Port. Interviews for the project will include many of the older residents whose families came from Ireland, Greece, and from Barbados or the southern states, as well as more recent immigrants from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. Please call Oral Historian Sarah Boyer at 617 349-6171 if you or someone you know would like to participate in the project.
The
Historical Commission is pleased to announce the publication of its latest
oral history: Common Cause, Uncommon
Courage: World War II and the Home Front in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Oral historian Sarah Boyer interviewed more than 125 veterans and home front
participants about their experiences during this critical time in our nation’s
history. The book honors these men and women for their struggle and sacrifice
on behalf of our country and hopefully speaks to a younger generation about
World War II and the accomplishments of their grandparents. Available at
the Historical Commission office ($25) and at local booksellers.Call Sarah
Boyer at 617-349-6171 for more information. Download publication
order form here.
Check
out the website, cambridgearchives.org,
which is a combined listing of the archival collections at the Cambridge Historical
Commission, Cambridge Historical Society, and the Cambridge Public Library,
as well as links to other local libraries and institutions.- Rediscovering the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House by the Cambridge Historical Society.
- Cambridge Police Department by Superintendent David J. Degou, Images of America Series, Arcadia Publishing.
- Fresh Pond: The History of a Cambridge Landscape by Jill Sinclair. The MIT Press.
- Growing up in North Cambridge: A Journal of Stories from 1900 to the 1980s edited by Steve Surette, Surette Graphic Services.
- Cambridge in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Daphne Abeel, Cambridge Historical Society.
