Trendsetting Lizzies does it again

Since Lizzy’s Ice Cream opened in 1995, they have been scooping ice cream onto the traditional sugar cones, cake cones, and waffle cones.

Passing the Torch at Bob Slate, Stationer

Seventy five years ago Robert Slate began selling paper and pencils at 8 Holyoke St. in Harvard Square as Bob Slate, Stationer. He persevered, survived the depression, nurtured his shop through the forties, thrived in the fifties, and unknown to himself created a legacy by orchestrating a seamless transition of responsibility to his sons Justin starting in 1963 and Mallory in 1973.

Oktoberfest 2009

Join the HONK! Festival Parade leaving Davis Square at noon and arriving at the Oktoberfest at 1:00 pm to “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet!” Harvard Square will welcome 25 Honk! Bands and their rolling, strolling, biking, dancing, skating, stilt dancing, costumed and puppet friends in an ambulatory spectacle!