Christ Church in Cambridge marked its 250th year with a celebratory Eucharist and reception on
Oct. 16, with Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE in attendance.
As photographer Amey Callahan noted in an e-mail to the parish, Christ Church, situated as it is on the Cambridge Common, over the past 250 years "has witnessed celebrations, memorials, funerals, grazing cows, marching bands, parades, presidents, professors, politicians, protesters, people picknicking, Christ Church parishioners, rectors, clergy, ministers, bishops, ringing church bells, skipping children, strolling families, stressed students, sleeping homeless, soccer teams, musicians, children playing, church services, white wigged gentlemen, women in long dresses, college coeds in mini skirts, birds, chickens, hawks, horses, wagons, bicycles, cars, trucks, buses, firetrucks, mud, cobblestones, asphalt, parking meters, red coats, armies, muskets, musket ball holes, barracks, monuments, statues, grass, trees, flowers, hot summers, Nor'easters and last Sunday morning, Oct. 16, 2011, almost 400 members of the parish and community gathered in front of the church for a celebration 250th photographic portrait of Christ Church."