Brattle Street Elegy: Looked like a Church, Sounded like a Church
March 18, 2018How I’ve enjoyed your memories, especially of the bright and beautiful people and the warm acceptance!
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Brattle Street Elegy: Part of Our Family
March 17, 2018The chapel on Longfellow Park held so many, many family memoies and history that I feel as though a part of our family is gone. My grandparents were some of the people who were instrumental…
Brattle Street Elegy: Freudian Analysis of Lehi’s Dream
March 17, 2018My mother just emailed me to let me know about the fire; and although I am typically a lurker on this site, I have to write a few words simply because I associate this building…
Brattle Street Elegy: How Beautiful Our Waters of Mormon
March 17, 2018I attended the University Ward from 1997-2000 and then the Cambridge Second Ward 2000-2002. My younger brother now attends the Cambridge First Ward and called me Sunday morning (my time) with the shocking news of…
Brattle Street Elegy: Move Back in a Heartbeat
March 17, 2018When Leo said yesterday, “The Cambridge church is burning down,” my first words were, “Oh, no. I hope they can at least save the organ,” a modest but serviceable pipe organ—always a treasure in a…
Brattle Street Elegy: The Bonds Endure
March 17, 2018In 2002, when Richard and Valerie Anderson moved from Arlington to Utah after decades as members of the Cambridge Ward and several other wards in eastern Massachusetts, they bequeathed to us an original pew from…
Brattle Street Elegy: Tribute to a Building
March 17, 2018I attended the University Ward from 1995 to 1999 as one of the MIT strong. Thanks to Sam for putting up this page. It really hits home.
Brattle Street Elegy: Not Different from My Home
March 17, 2018My wife led me to the news and to this website. We met while we were attending the ward in 2001. I share the sentiments of many who have left comments here.
I clearly remember my first Sunday in the Longfellow Park chapel in August of 1998. Though I had a testimony, I was spiritually underdeveloped.
Brattle Street Elegy: Equally Warm, Whether Empty or Full
March 17, 2018While an undergraduate at Harvard, I attended the University Singles Ward from 1997 to 2000 and then the Grown-Up Ward from 2000 to 2001.1 am overwhelmed with grief and sadness and also grateful for Sam’s…
Brattle Street Elegy: Not the Building
March 17, 2018I made my husband repeat the news three times and show me the pictures before I could believe him. I joined the Church a few months before leaving for college in 1995, and the University…