TOUCHING HISTORY; HARVARD SQUARE, THE BANK, AND THE TASTY DINER

2005. Color. 33 mins.

Touching History tells the story of the re-development of Harvard Square’s Read Block. The film combines interviews with archival materials to take the viewer through the hows and whys of the project, introducing audiences to the necessary, sometimes polemical, but always compelling relationships that exist between the public and the private sector. At the film’s core is the inevitable push and pull between conservation and development.