Harvard Square is a large triangular area created by three streets, which are Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street, and John F. Kennedy Street. It’s heart of Cambridge and Harvard University. The name "Harvard Square" can also refer to the entire neighborhood surrounding this intersection for several blocks in each direction.

At the center of the Square is the famous old Harvard Square Subway Kiosk, now a newsstand, Out of Town News, stocking newspapers and magazines from around the world.

There are also many monuments like Five black panels who are a monument to Prince Hall, and to the thousands of African American revolutionary patriots who helped lay the foundation of this nation joined to Washington's Army and winning their freedom like him. Prince Hall Monument is also in honour of man who was the founder of Black Freemasonry and later, found the first African-American elementary school in Cambridge.


Prince Hall Monument


Another interesting monument is The Irish Famine Monument erected on the 150th anniversary of the worst year of the Irish Potato Famine, the year 1847, also known as "Black 47," depicts attenuated figures of an Irish mother and father, each holding a child, reaching out toward one another from across a rectangular polished granite base meant to symbolize the ocean. The inscription on the front of the base reads "An Gorta Mor - The Great Hunger." The inscription on the back of the base reads "Never again should a people starve in a world of plenty."


Irish Famine Monument


This is a bustling center of activity, Harvard Square embodies all that is Cambridge. Students and academics mix with tourists and locals to crowd the sidewalks and restaurants on weekends and evenings, while the streets are more relaxed during the week. But when you want go through Harvard Square in straight line, you can’t do this, it’s impossible, you don’t believe, ask locals.

Autor: Filip Lewandowski