O'Connell Summer Reading Kickoff Party (O'Connell)
Join us to celebrate the beginning of summer and sign up for Summer Reading! We will have small seed planting kits for you to decorate & use, some coloring pages, and dance party music! All ages welcome.
Budget
The Budget Office’s primary responsibility is the preparation of the annual Operating and Capital budgets for submission by the City Manager to the City Council.
Cambridge Senior Center
Located at 806 Massachusetts Ave., the Cambridge Senior Center offers programming, events, lunches, and recreational options to Cambridge residents age 60 and older.
Office of Procedural Justice
The Office of Procedural Justice will give the community the ability to see how the Department and its officers are interacting with the public.
Land/Mark: Enslavement, Resistance and Revolution (Main)
Join the Cambridge Public Library for a symposium exploring themes of the Revolution and the history of Mark, Phillis and Phoebe. Mark and Phillis were two enslaved people who were publicly executed in Cambridge in 1755 after being found guilty of fatally poisoning John Codman, the man who enslaved them. After the execution, Mark's body was gibbeted, displayed publicly in chains on Charlestown Common, for many years.
Symposium participants will include Kyera Singleton, Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters and Postdoctoral Fellow at Tufts University's Slavery, Colonialism, and their Legacies at Tufts Initiative, as well as Brandeis University legal historian Dan Breen and others. The keynote speaker for the event will be Kellie Carter Jackson, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and the Chair of the Africana Studies Department Wellesley College. Registration is required.