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Stories written by Gavin KleespiesCambridge native Gavin Kleespies is director of programs at the Massachusetts Historical Society, former director of the Cambridge Historical Society, and editor of Saving Cambridge: Historic Preservation in America’s Innovation City.
How our city's history helped shape what we eat
The secret history of a present-day bar
Tracking down the hometown birthplace of the Internet
Some things you never knew about a Boston Bridge
How a noise complaint made Boston history
When being gay could get you thrown out of Harvard
Our unexpected role in the annals of the blues
How one bookstore beat the odds
When we were the capital of sweetness
When our town was the capital of candy