Excerpt from “Sketches of Boston, Past and Present”, by Isaac Smith Homans, 1851
July 14, 2009
Excerpt from “Sketches of Boston, Past and Present”
The Honey Wagon
I found this 1950s vintage photo of a DPW garbage truck (a.k.a. “honey wagon”) in an MIT collection. There used to be separate food waste, i.e. garbage, collection back then. As one native Cantabrigian commented, “I remember the simple pleasures of youth sitting with my grandfather on the front porch on garbage pick up day on a hot summer’s day. The pungent smell would wrap the entire neighborhood and every fly was on escort duty above the truck.” Keep Cambridge Clean!
This Old Land of Cambridge
This Old Land of Cambridge – The true story of the geological history of Cambridge – by George Ehrenfried
Political History of Cambridge
Political History of Cambridge in the 20th Century
written by Glenn Koocher, November 2004 edited by Robert Winters, July 2006 [An alternate edit of this essay appears, along with many other valuable essays, in a centennial volume published by the Cambridge Historical Society in 2007.]
Which People’s Republic
written by Bill Cunningham, 1999