Event
Born in Cambridge: 400 Year of Ideas and Innovators
Karen Weintraub, USA Today, and Michael Kuchta
This is a hybrid event. The program will begin at 6:00. Register for how you plan to attend below.
In person, $10 per person fee, no charge for virtual, MHS Members or EBT Cardholders.
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city of “firsts”: the first college in the English colonies, the first two-way long-distance call, the first legal same-sex marriage. In 1632, Anne Bradstreet, living in what is now Harvard Square, wrote one of the first published poems in British North America, and in 1959, Cambridge-based Carter’s Ink marketed the first yellow Hi-liter. W.E.B. Du Bois, Julia Child, Yo-Yo Ma, and Noam Chomsky all lived or worked in Cambridge at various points in their lives. Born in Cambridge tells these stories and many others, chronicling cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations that all came from one city of modest size across the Charles River from Boston.
Hybrid Event
The program will begin at 6:00.
Masks are now required inside the MHS building. Learn more about our COVID-19 protocols.
The virtual program begins at 6:00 PM and will be hosted on the video conference platform, Zoom. Registrants will receive a confirmation message with attendance information.
