Frederick Douglass Society Marks Juneteenth with “Bear Me Into Freedom” Event

Frederick Douglass Society Marks Juneteenth with “Bear Me Into Freedom” Event

​ Frederick Douglass Honor Society to Commemorate America’s 250 Celebration on Juneteenth by Sponsoring Bear Me Into Freedom: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for America’s Promise at the Historic Asbury United Methodist Church On Juneteenth of 2026, June 19, in the year that is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Frederick Douglass […]

Wine of the Week: La Capranera Fiano Campania IGP

Wine of the Week: La Capranera Fiano Campania IGP

​ Ciao Tutti! This weekend at Piazza Italian Market, we will taste a white wine from Campania on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the La Capranera IGP Campania Fiano ($17.50, ABV 13%) from the Azienda Agricola San Salvatore estate in the Capaccio-Paestum area. The distinctive label of wavy black lines creates a body of […]

Living With Uncertainty: Flood Mitigation in Cambridge

Living With Uncertainty: Flood Mitigation in Cambridge

​ Drone photo of Cambridge’s West End, with the addition of a computer rendering of the proposed shoreline modifications. Image courtesy of the Make Cambridge Resilient project. Cambridge City held a public meeting at the Dorchester County Library’s Cambridge Branch this week, originally scheduled for February 24th.* The reason for the delay is explained below. […]

Food Friday: Hot Dog Season

Food Friday: Hot Dog Season

​ Mr. Sanders and I have flown the coop for a couple of weeks. We are off to visit Scotland. Will I try haggis? I doubt it. But I will certainly save room for Tunnock’s Tea Cakes, dark chocolate, please. This is a piece from last year, and I hope it will get you in […]

Cambridge Time Machine: The Chronicle Building

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The Cambridge Chronicle was actually the name of several related newspapers over the course of the 19th century. The earliest known version began publication as a weekly paper around 1822.  A later version began in 1828 and evolved through several title changes before being absorbed into another Cambridge paper around 1855. Then, another newspaper using […]