Scott Kirsner has come up with another great idea to get people together, and this one is truly old fashioned: A picnic! The aerial photo above shows Charles Park. Be there!
Check out details here on Greenhorn Connect.
An excerpt:
WHEN & WHERE?
Come to Charles Park in Cambridge any time between 5:30pm and 8:00pm on Wednesday, August 18th. (If it turns out to be rainy that evening, we’ll shift to August 25th. Check the @bostechpicnic Twitter feed for weather-related updates.) Charles Park is a five-minute walk from Kendall Square or the Lechmere T stop, and also pretty easy to get to by walking over the Longfellow Bridge from Boston
Some Historic Maps and Photos Centered on Charles Park
And because I love old maps, here is that area from 1955, and then from a recent aerial, and also with a 1775 map overlay.
Cambridgeport, 1955 (USGS Aerial Photo)
You can view these aerials by here: Follow Link (a mapping system I designed in a prior life.)
This map is made using the Flash client for the MapJunction mapping system that we made at www.futureboston.org.
It allows aligned overlays of old and new maps.
Follow Link to see this map live in the mapping system. Check and uncheck the layers to "travel through time."