Born in North Cambridge: A Guided Tour

Saturday, May 17, 2025
2-3:30 pm
Free; registration required
Limited space available
Weather date: Sunday, May 17 at 2 pm

About the tour
Join authors Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta for a series of free walking tours exploring Cambridge’s legacy of innovation, adaptation, and revolutionary ideas. Based on their book Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators, these tours will uncover the people, places, and events that have shaped the city’s unique role in history. Explore the “secret sauce” that has made Cambridge the home of so many creative people and new ideas.


On May 17th, 2025, Weintraub and Kuchta will lead a 90 minute walking tour of the North Cambridge neighborhood. The tour will start and end at the entrance to the Russell Field playground on Rindge Avenue. They will share stories about the 19th century ice industry, brick making in North Cambridge, celebrity chef Joyce Chen, pioneering author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, the first email, the early days of the electronic spreadsheet, and other North Cambridge ‘firsts’.

This tour is supported by the City of Cambridge and MA 250.

You may also like the following events from History Cambridge:

• This Tuesday, 13th May, 06:00 pm, History Café: Squire’s Meat and East Cambridge’s Fight for Change in Cambridge
• Next month, 21st June, 02:00 pm, Pioneering Poets of Cambridge: A Guided Tour in Cambridge

Also check out other Arts events in Cambridge, Literary Art events in Cambridge, Food & Drink events in Cambridge.