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Harvard Square
Cambridge
Red
Brick everything. Buskers in the pit, chess in the kiosk, a 388-year-old college around the corner, and tourists rubbing John Harvard's foot for luck (it's the wrong foot, by the wrong sculptor).
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What to do
- •Free student-led Yard tour
- •Chess in the pit
- •Bartley's Burgers
- •Sanders Theatre concert
- •Brattle Theatre indie double feature
- •Wandering the Glass Flowers at Harvard Museum of Natural History
Walking trails
From Johnston Gate around the Yard, through Memorial Hall to the Science Center.
West on Brattle past historic homes to the country's first garden cemetery.
Events
- •Harvard Square May Fair (May)
- •Oktoberfest (Oct)
- •Honk! parade pass-through (Oct)
- •ArtsFirst (May)
Fun facts
- ✦John Harvard statue has 'three lies': Wasn't the founder, isn't actually Harvard (no portraits existed), wrong founding date.
- ✦Harvard is the oldest U.S. university (1636).
- ✦The Cambridge Common is where Washington took command of the Continental Army (1775).
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