On Saturday, March 3, I was not home, but in Cambridge MA. I am at Harvard for a two-week stint studying at Harvard Business School. I did not really get a change to get away from the city, but did spend about three hours on Saturday afternoon exploring Cambridge.
I met up with a friend of my sister’s and he took me all over Cambridge — from Harvard Yard to Radcliffe to Cambridge Common. We explored buildings and cemetaries as we came across them. The highlight of our wandering was stumbling upon Longfellow House/Washington’s Headquarters. I was surprised to learn that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had selected the home that George Washington selected as his headquarters and home in July 1775 as he began to build the Continentental Army.
Sadly, the house was closed for renovations, but we did get to wander through the grounds and the brochure shared this lovely Longfellow quotation:
Once, ah, once within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, The Father of his Country dwelt. And yonder meadows broad and damp the fires of the besieging camp Encircled with a burning belt -from To a Child by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1845Lovely day and a great reminder for this California girl of just how tangible US history in the east.
Holly Potter 
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