Pedaling the People's Republic

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Entering the shortcut from Cogswell Ave

Coming onto Pemberton St from the shortcut

Robert Winters explains significance of stop

Tip O’Neill’s formative years were centered around a clubhouse in an abandoned barbershop at the intersection of Cedar and Rindge known as Barry’s Corner

The Barry brothers' building faced Rindge Ave at the site of the brick building in the background as shown on this map

Partisanship in municipal government along party and ethnic lines grew with the influx of immigrants to Cambridge in the early 1900s

Holding Tip O'Neill's memoir, Man Of the House

Bicycle Committee chair Catherine Hornby

Thomas P. O’Neill, a former city councillor and father of Thomas P.“Tip” O’Neill, became commissioner of sewers and was in position to make good use of the patronage system in effect during those years

The political dichotomy of Cambridge was really between political patronage (often along ethnic lines) and the good government crowd

Politics became intertwined with the ability to get and retain a job. This was the environment that spawned Congressman and later Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill

Karen Aqua leans and listens

Jonas waits out the presentation

On Sherman St

We detoured onto Sherman St because the Yerxa underpass was flooded from the previous day's rain

Riding past St. Peter's Field

Early fall colors

Garden St at Garden Terrace

Gathering at the entrance to the Harvard Smithsonian Observatory

Panoramic view

Entering the shortcut from Cogswell Ave	Coming onto Pemberton St from the shortcut	Robert Winters explains significance of stop	Tip O’Neill’s formative years were centered around a clubhouse in an abandoned barbershop at the intersection of Cedar and Rindge known as Barry’s Corner
The Barry brothers' building faced Rindge Ave at the site of the brick building in the background as shown on this map	Partisanship in municipal government along party and ethnic lines grew with the influx of immigrants to Cambridge in the early 1900s	Holding Tip O'Neill's memoir, Man Of the House	Bicycle Committee chair Catherine Hornby
Thomas P. O’Neill, a former city councillor and father of Thomas P.“Tip” O’Neill, became commissioner of sewers and was in position to make good use of the patronage system in effect during those years	The political dichotomy of Cambridge was really between political patronage (often along ethnic lines) and the good government crowd	Politics became intertwined with the ability to get and retain a job. This was the environment that spawned Congressman and later Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill	Karen Aqua leans and listens
Jonas waits out the presentation	On Sherman St	We detoured onto Sherman St because the Yerxa underpass was flooded from the previous day's rain	Riding past St. Peter's Field
Early fall colors	Garden St at Garden Terrace	Gathering at the entrance to the Harvard Smithsonian Observatory	Panoramic view