Water Fountains
Install four accessible drinking fountains for residents and visitors in high foot traffic neighborhoods and parks.
Great Books Book Group (Main/Virtual)
This week's selection: Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Reading Interests: We concentrate on Great Books in the following areas: a long novel over the summer, two sections of poetry and short stories, a book of the Bible, a Shakespeare play, an ancient and modern drama, a work of science, a smaller work of fiction, an even smaller work of fiction, and a rotating mix of politics, philosophy, and religion. Authors read in the past five years include Dickens, Keats and Yeats, O'Connor and Munro, Ecclesiastes, Sophocles and August Wilson, Darwin, Austen, Duras, The Federalist Papers, and Arendt.
How to get the print book: Copies of the reading are set aside at the Main Library. Visit the Main Library at 449 Broadway during current service hours and a staff member can help you get a copy.
How to register: Registration is required. Click the registration link below to register.
This is a hybrid event. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants 1 hour before the event.
For more information, contact Drew Griffin (dgriffin@cambridgema.gov)
Drag Story Time (O'Neill)
Kick off Pride Month with Drag Story Time at the O'Neill Branch! A special guest will present songs and stories about what makes each of us fabulous.
This program is for children and their caregivers.
No registration required.
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The Small Business Challenge Grant offers Cambridge businesses, business associations, and groups of neighborhood businesses the opportunity to secure one-time grant funding in increments of $1,000 for well-designed projects that bring together neighborhood business interests around shared goals of improved design, promotion, and business resilience in a commercial area.
MA250 Event: "Born In Cambridge" Tours - West Cambridge
Join authors Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta for a walking tour of West Cambridge that brings Born in Cambridge to life, highlighting the people, places, and pivotal moments that reveal how this small city became a powerful engine of innovation, reinvention, and revolutionary ideas across four centuries.
MA250 Event: "Born In Cambridge" Tours - Cambridgeport
Join authors Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta for a walking tour of Cambridgeport that brings Born in Cambridge to life, highlighting the people, places, and pivotal moments that reveal how this small city became a powerful engine of innovation, reinvention, and revolutionary ideas across four centuries.