Cambridge From the Couch: Get Outside!
When I told my therapist a while back that I had been pretty depressed and didn’t know why, she said it was common to feel that way because of the lack of sunlight in the winter. Well, the sun’s out now, and we’ve been getting some warmer days. It’s time to shake off the blues […]
Cambridge Time Machine: Pine Street Marchers
The Pine Street School Green Hornets Drum and Bugle Corps was popular entertainment in the Second Ward, as when they marched up Pine Street during the 1947 Schools-on-Parade event.
Cambridge Time Machine: FDR Honors the Choptank Bridge
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s yacht Sequoia passed through the brand-new Emerson C. Harrington Bridge in Cambridge on October 26, 1935. Read all about it here.
Cambridge From the Couch: Why the Spy
When I sit down to write for The Cambridge Spy, I’m always aware that local journalism in a city like ours is not a luxury. It’s a necessity. In a community of roughly 13,000 people, many of the stories that shape daily life rarely receive attention from larger regional or national outlets. City Council decisions, […]
Cambridge Time Machine: Remains of Oakley Farm
Oakley Street refers to the 100-acre Oakley Farm that started with its original patent in 1683, a year before Cambridge was first laid out and made a port of entry. The land was patented as Foulkes Content, but it would become over the years Lockermans Regulation, Oakly Farm, Oakley Farm, and finally The West End. […]
Cambridge Time Machine: Cambridge Junior High
When Cambridge needed a new school and people needed jobs in the late 1930s, the city took advantage of President Roosevelt’s Public Works Administration, which paid 60% of the wages of workmen employed to build public buildings. Architect Edwin Wilson Booth was hired, and the work of constructing the school went forward under the direction […]
Cambridge Time Machine: Old Pine Street
This 1928 photo shows the intersection of Pine and Washington Streets, looking north. The house on the left was owned by Lula Earle, and on the right was Lewis Bayneum’s house and funeral home. Bethel Church can be seen farther down the street.
Cambridge Time Machine: Blizzard of ‘79
If you think the lingering snow and ice in February 2026 is inconvenient, you should’ve been here (or maybe you were) at almost exactly this time in 1979 when a blizzard piled around 20 inches of snow on Cambridge. This view of Willis Street is a sample.