pHome to the location where George Washington took command of the troops and to America's oldest Ivy League university, Cambridge is a city that feels like a town. p pHasty Pudding meetings were enlivened with mock trials spoofing happenings in Cambridge and among the faculty by 1860 the trials had evolved into shows. In a corner of the Cambridge Common, across from Harvard Yard, a Gilded Age statue of a Puritan has been toppled several times. Letters home from Robert Kennedy were found stashed on a high shelf in a college room he occupied, over 30 years after he graduated. p pFrom protests to the Beer Garden Summit, author Jane Merrill shares the stories behind notable landmarks and some significant but little-known facts in and around town. p