Around Town


Five Stories of Memory at the Cambridge Antique Market

The post had been intriguing enough that she and her friends chose to spend their last day in Boston sifting through vintage designer clothes and multicolored jewelry. They are not alone in this experience.

The Urban Agriculturalist at North Allston Farms

Founder Rita L. Vaidya sees North Allston Farms not simply as a business, but as a garden and space of education for anyone hungry and curious. When not tending to her crop, she hosts workshops throughout Allston, advertising “the joy of tasting and growing microgreens while learning where your food comes from.”

Preserving the Past, Embracing the Present: Art in the Houses

There is often little room for modern or student-produced art. The Houses “have a particular architecture,” Luise Mörke says, that “already determines what is possible in a given space, or what works in a given space.” Conformity to these past styles, she says, is often what contemporary art “is up against.”