History Café 4: City People and Old Cambridge People

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A conversation with author Katherine Howe and Society board member Ed Rodley, 4th generation Cambridge Irish-American, about two defining Cambridge types—Brahmins and City People—at the heart of where Cambridge is from.

Also featuring a peek into the Society’s archives with a brief look at the Susan Nichols’ journals from the late 1800s, with Archivist Maggie Hoffman and Intern Lydia MacKay. Susan raised her family in the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House on Brattle Street and was a member of the West Cambridge community for all of her adult life.

Light refreshments included.