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Bostonist has had a few too many close encounters with tourists on Segways (maybe they, not bikers, are the real danger in town) on the Charlestown Bridge. As you can tell, we’re into Boston history. But getting mowed over by tourists on Segways? Not so much. We love a good historic tour, but they can often be gimmicky and touristy.
Starting tomorrow, the Historic Cambridge Collaborative is offering a series of tours and events that is more what we’re into—no Segways and Minute Man-led tours. Just history and architecture, led by people active in the local historic preservation community. A collaboration between the Cambridge Arts Council, the Cambridge Office for Tourism, the Cambridge Historical Commission, the Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the Cambridge Historical Society, and the Longfellow National Historic Site, the Historic Cambridge Collaborative is hosting two Saturdays of historic walking tours and events—August 8th and 15th.
The tours and events are taking place all over Cambridge: Harvard Square, Central Square, Inman Square, Cambridgeport, Fresh Pond, and Mount Auburn Cemetery. Events will be taking place at historic houses associated with many notable Cambridge residents, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Margaret Fuller, and James Russell Lowell. Some tours are more thematic, with titles like “Cambridge and Heresy,” “Folk Music in Cambridge,” and “The Women of Central Square.”
All of these events are free, and they take place rain or shine. A full schedule (PDF) is available for download.
We’ll definitely be taking advantage of these events. We’re hoping they’ll help us forget about the Segway incidents.
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J.L. Bell is leading walks on both Sunday's and I highly recommend those.
Wow so this person has had a full glass of Hatorade this week! They beleive since there opinion of how public space should be used is the only one that counts. Let me remind some people who want to remember history. The true test of an american is to stand idle by while one person tears apart something you spent your whole life building! Take a step back relax and enjoy the Segway PT's roll by. Hey try it you just may like it! More importantly you dont own or control the sidewalk and the Segway PT is legally and I might add Federaly legislated as a pedestrian level Electic Mobility Personal Assistive Device.
If one thing history has showed us is there will always be an upgrade. Are you still using windows 95? Try walking 8.0 (Segway PT). By the way stay to the right of the sidewalk.