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Let’s take a look at the events of the 1630s when speculators drove up the prices of tulip bulbs to dizzying heights. The development of Dutch flower painting and the phenomenon known as “tulipmania” share the same root causes in 17th century Netherlands; that is, an interest in objects of great appeal and rarity, whether just for their beauty or their scientific notoriety. But what was really happening and has it been overblown in history? We will discover where the practice of flower painting began for the Dutch, in response to the value of live flowers; a practice of painting beautiful still lives that continues today.

Join the Cambridge Public Library for the 51st Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture with Dr. Brandon M. Terry. Dr. Terry is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Co-director of the Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. He is the author of Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement and is coeditor, with Tommie Shelby, of To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and editor of Fifty Years Since MLK. Registration is required.

The City of Cambridge invites you to attend a virtual community meeting to learn more about the plans for the City-owned space at 135 Sherman Street

Cambridge Sidewalk Poetry integrates infrastructure repair with the poetry of the people

Cambridge Sidewalk Poetry integrates infrastructure repair with the poetry of the people

As part of the ongoing redevelopment of the Volpe Parcel, now known as Kendall Common, and of Eversource's Greater Cambridge Energy Project, Broadway will undergo significant traffic and pedestrian changes to support the construction project and establishment of the new substation.

You are invited to learn about the City's Affordable Rental and Homeownership Programs at an information session presented by the Housing Division of the Community Development Department

You are invited to learn about the City's Affordable Rental and Homeownership Programs at an information session presented by the Housing Division of the Community Development Department

You are invited to learn about the City's Affordable Rental and Homeownership Programs at an information session presented by the Housing Division of the Community Development Department

You are invited to learn about the City's Affordable Rental and Homeownership Programs at an information session presented by the Housing Division of the Community Development Department