02/24/2017

UPCOMING INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS Monday 02/27 12:00PM Lunchtime Book Group 1:30PM Telling Lives: Memoir Writing Group Neighbors News 3:00PM English Conversation Practice Tuesday 02/28 10:00 AM English Conversation Practice

12:00PM Knitting for Everyone Wednesday 3/1 What’s New in Neighbors News 10:00AM Infant and Toddler Playgroup 7:30PM MIT Women’s Chorale Rehearsal Winter fest at the Plaza! curling, shuffleboard, and and s’mores from Harvard Stu- Thursday 3/2 Just outside the Science bowling. There’s also dent Agencies. 9:30AM Art Explorations Center, the Plaza is bustling plenty of comfortable Don’t forget the WinterFest 1:30PM English Conversation Practice with fun activities, food, and seating around toasty fire special events that include Friday 3/3 pits; favorite games like curling and shuffleboard 12:30PM French Conversation Group ping pong, foosball, and lessons, hip hop cardio corn-hole; and tasty treats dancing, campfire storytelling, 2:00PM Advanced English Conversation and a winter fun run! Monday 3/6 12:00PM Living Green We are on Facebook! Harvard Neighbors Facebook 3:00PM English Conversation Practice page is Harvard-Neighbors- Tuesday 3/7 Harvard. Please check it out! 10:00AM English Conversation Practice We post announcements for 12:00 PM Knitting For Everyone festivities this winter. As our upcoming Neighbors 5:30 PM French Book Club part of the Common Spaces events and interesting ideas for Wednesday 3/8 program students, faculty, courtesy of food trucks your free time almost every- 10:00AM Infant and Toddler Playgroup and staff can enjoy newly such as Bon Me, Tenoch, day! Your suggestions 7:30PM MIT Women’s Chorale Rehearsal designed ice lanes featuring Stoked, and Zinneken’s. comments and likes are always Thursday 3/9 There’s also hot chocolate welcomed! 9:30 AM Art Explorations 1:30PM English Conversation Practice Around Harvard Friday 3/10 10:30AM Japanese Conversation Hasty Pudding Theatricals: and BJ Novak. Catch HPT's latest com- to public. 'Casino Evil' edy extravaganza at Farkas Hall in The location and date of the lecture 2:00PM Advanced English Conversation Cambridge. More info: Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals are: , Edison and http://hastypudding.org/current-show goes west for its 169th annual all-male Newman Room, March 1st at 5:30 pm IMPORTANT UPCOMING student drag comedy Casino Evil, a fun- DATES IN OUR AREA: and pun-filled farce set in '30s-era Ve- Silhouette as Art and Entertainment Exhibition Reception: Nate Dow's gas. Mobster "Lost in Boston" Houghton Library invites you to join International Women’s Day March 8 Al Calzone is betting on building a new them for an engaging casino in the Nevada desert, while local When Brighton-based journalist Nate National Pie Day March 14 folk like Grannie Oakley, lawman Hank lecture and live demonstration of a Dow started taking daily walks Kupfs and tobacco-loving waitress Em around Boston for exercise two years Fizeema aim to keep their little saloon lost art. Charles ago, he realized how much he loved town Mafia-free. The famed Hasty Pud- Burns, aka The Roll- HARVARD NEIGHBORS the city's subtle beauty. The exhibi- ding troupe boasts ing Artist, will trace 17 QUINCY STREET alumni like William the history of the tion Lost in Boston, on view at the CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138 Randolph Hearst silhouette through Harvard Ed Portal, highlights Boston's the centuries, draw- often overlooked beauty through and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as well ing on examples Dow's photography. T : 6 1 7 - 495- 4313 as actors and writ- from the Houghton Library collections, The free reception will take place on E: [email protected] ers including Jack and share his revival of it as an art and March 2, from 5pm until 7pm. To Lemmon, Mo Roc- entertainment for the twenty-first register please click here. Follow us on Facebook! ca, Rashida Jones century. The lecture is free and open The exhibition will run until May 11.

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Camden, Maine - of the year. Then warm up in the chute, where a steep track lets adjacent Camden Public Library, toboggans drop off the side of Rag- Magic along the bay another beauty, which originated in ged Mountain at speeds exceeding Best known for its picture-perfect 1796 with a donation of 200 books 30 miles per hour. harbor and historic windjammers, (present building constructed in Afterwards, you’ve earned your cup Camden casts a magic spell come 1928). of chowder at Cappy’s and a seat in Yet the most intriguing perk here front of a fireplace at one of the come winter is that this is the only many inns that stay open year- locale in America where you can ski round. downhill and peer out at an expanse of ocean. Who can resist the salty smell of the sea while riding the double chair to the top of Camden Snow Bowl? One of the smallest peaks in New England, this ski area still has a mom-and-pop appeal, attracting many local families on the winter. A stroll along the waterfront weekends. It’s also home to a 440- at Harbor Park is perfect at any time foot-long ice-coated toboggan Weekend Ideas

Five Places to Outdoor Ice Skate in Boston/Cambridge Memorial Church Re-Opening Concert The Frog Pond is widely known as the best place for outdoor ice After months of extensive renovations Harvard’s skating in the wintertime, but in addition to that, here's a few other Memorial Church celebrated the re-opening of the Church gems worth checking out. Click here for map of the rings. 1) Boston Winter (City Hall Plaza) // Rink: $10 (adults) $8 (kids), at the end of January. Rentals: $6 // 1 Bennett St, Cambridge, MA You are cordially invited to the free University Choir 2) Community Ice Skating at Kendall Square // Rink: $10, Rentals: Reopening Concert at the church Sanctuary on Sunday, $10 // 300 Athenaeum St, Cambridge, MA March 5 at 4 pm. The choir will present American Music 3) Ice Skating on Boston Harbor // Rink: $10, Rentals: $10 // 70 by Chris De Blasio, Carson Cooman, Alfred V. Fedak, and Rowes Wharf, Boston, MA others . For over 180 years the Choir 4) Harvard Skate // Rink: FREE, Rentals: $5 // , Cam- has provided a unique opportunity for student singers to bridge, MA perform great choral literature at the highest level, both 5) Frog Pond Skating Rink // Rink: $5, Rentals: $10 // Boston Com- mon, Boston, MA in concert and during the services of the Memorial Although indoors, the Steriti Memorial Rink is also a great (and Church. A demanding, yet rewarding experience, the choir affordable) place to skate: North End Skating Rink // Rink: FREE, is regarded by many as the premier program in college Rentals: $5 // 561 Commercial St, Boston, MA chapel music in the United States.

Isabella Stewart collection of plants from the Pelargonium genus. Gardner Museum Cultivate a new under- Here’s another interesting standing of this tender invitation from the famous perennial and bring home Boston museum. Get your a creative display of aro- hands dirty in the Green- matic foliage. house Classroom with crea- Advance registration re- tive, hands-on workshops led quired because the by experts in the field. capacity is limited. Work- The SCENTED GERANIUMS shops are designed for work shop will take place on participants ages 15 and up. Fee includes Museum February 26 at 11:30 am admission, instruction, materials, and coffee. For Awaken your sense of smell, and create your own cutting more information about click here

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