Lively Lore is currently offering a guided historic walking tour of Harvard Square, entitled “Tales of Olde Cambridge.” Your guide, Actor Timothy Sawyer (www.timothysawyer.com), will conjure the village of Cambridge in the days of Puritans and revolutionaries and tell true tales that took place on these very streets--tales of heretics, witches, patriots, traitors, spies, murderers, heroes, heretics, rebels and (gasp) liberals.

We begin in the 1630’s, when ships docked at what is now South Street; the jail in Winthrop Square, now Peet’s Coffee, was built to hold accused witches and Puritan miscreants were set in stocks right in the Market Square. Occasionally throughout the walk, the words of the Fireside Poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes, all lifelong residents of Cambridge, will illuminate the narrative, simply because no one could say it better.

Join a regularly scheduled tour or arrange a private tour at your convenience. They last approximately one and a half hours and you will always be within a few blocks of Harvard Square.

Please check www.livelylore.com for current schedules, additional information about the tour and suggestions for dining and shopping afterwards. 617 354-3344 (voice) 617 864-3445 (fax) info@livelylore.com (email).

“Tales of Olde Cambridge” was written and produced by Academy Award nominee Joan Sawyer.