Image: Galaxy Cambridge. jpg |" Galaxy: Earth Sphere " sculpture, a Kendall Square landmark by Joe Davis, Fall 1989.

Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts

Davis Square in winter

Davis Square is a major intersection in the northwestern section of Somerville, Massachusetts where several streets meet: Holland Street, Dover Street, Day Street, Elm Street, Highland Avenue, and College Avenue.

Sign showing intersecting streets of Davis Square.

The Davis Square T station is one of the stops on the Red Line of the MBTA subway.

Davis Square is from Porter Square, from Tufts University, from Alewife, from Harvard Square, and from Union Square.

With so many streets converging, several of which are one-way, Davis Square is infamously difficult to navigate.

Today, Davis Square is a mix of the old and the new.

In 1997, Davis Square was listed by the Utne Reader as one of the fifteen " hippest places to live " in the United States.

In 2005, The Boston Globe reported the first million dollar condo sale in Davis Square, which marked a major shift for a neighborhood once known as affordable.

One of the Davis Square statues

Davis Square itself is decorated with many colorful pieces of art, including tiles made by local schoolchildren, sculptures of prominent local figures, the Davis Square statues, and a flying cow.

The Public Radio International show, Living on Earth is recorded in its studios in Davis Square.

Davis Square is named for Person Davis ( 1819 – 1894 ), whose estate included the present-day Davis Square.

In the summer of 1861, Davis appointed several generals to defend Confederate lines from the Mississippi River east to the Allegheny Mountains.

Still nominally serving in the senate, Davis spent the summer of 1858 in Portland, Maine.

By the end of the summer, Davis had persuaded Wayne Shorter to leave Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and join the quintet.

* Bette Davis, actress ( summer visitor )

* Dwight Filley Davis, ( 1879 – 1945 ), an American tennis player and politician who is best remembered as the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis competition, had a summer home in Aiken.

Stone intended to spend the summer in Providence, Rhode Island, working with Davis on the details of the gathering.

After a two-year absence when he was with the U. S. Army ( 1953 – 1954 ), he returned to Gateway in its 1955 summer season, playing: Eddie Davis in Ronald Alexander's Time Out For Ginger ( July 1955 ), Hal Carter in William Inge's Picnic ( July 1955 ), Charles Wilder in John Willard's The Cat And The Canary ( August 1955 ), Paris in Arthur Miller's The Crucible ( August 1955 ), and John the Witchboy in William Berney and Howard Richardson's Dark Of The Moon ( September 1955 ).

Children play in the fountain on a hot summer evening, Davis, California.

He is buried in the local cemetery, together with bandbox craftswoman Hannah Davis, and author and summer resident Willa Cather.

* Singer Sammy Davis Jr. of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack performed with his uncle in Massena during the summer of 1940.

In summer 1861, Howell Davis and her husband moved to Richmond, Virginia, the new capital of the Confederacy.

Over the summer and autumn of 2003, a series of protracted negotiations took place between PC and CA " emissaries ": Bill Davis, Don Mazankowski and Loyola Hearn for the PCs and Gerry St. Germain, Ray Speaker and Scott Reid for the CA.

In summer 2010 Kim Warnick started a new band with Mikey Davis called Calligraphers.

During the summer months of 1930 to 1933, Davis escorted pilgrimages of World War I Gold Star Mothers and Widows to the burial places of their loved ones in Europe.

Davis was assigned to the 369th Regiment, New York National Guard, during the summer of 1938, and took command of the regiment a short time later.

This report was presented to the Shadow Home Secretary David Davis during the summer of 2004.

While at Real, Benítez also gained his coaching certificate in 1989 and in the summer of 1990 he taught at a football camp at the University of California, Davis in California.

In the summer of 1893 George Davis, funded by Charles Moore, discovered gold on Rainy Lake.

Both of the newlyweds contracted malaria on a summer visit to Davis ' sister in St. Francisville, Louisiana.

Nevertheless, the area was threatened by at least four potential developments: ( 1 ) sub-divisions for summer homes on Cabin Mountain, ( 2 ) as a route for a proposed federal expressway ( Corridor H ) linking Washington, DC with the highlands, ( 3 ) strip-mining of as many as six coal seams, which was already occurring within 3. 5 miles of the Sods in the north and ( 4 ) flooding by a huge reservoir as part of the proposed Davis Power Project just to the west.

The Motels 2009 summer tour found Martha Davis once again surrounding herself with all new musicians: Felix Mercer ( keyboards ), Matthew Brown ( bass ), Matthew Morgan ( drums ), and Matt Miller ( guitar ).

As of late summer 2011, Davis put her jazz album ( rechristened as " I Have My Standards ") on hold, but she still plans to release it down the line.

* Graceland ( Elkins, West Virginia ); the summer home for Davis and a National Historic Landmark

The " Coda " show was successful, and was followed by a summer 2006 Madison Square Garden concert that showcased freestyle's most successful performers.

It draws tourists and artists, who each summer throng the cafes, restaurants and shops around Market Square.

Farmers market during the summer time on the Winchester Square

* Thursday Night on the Square features an outside market, live entertainment, various arts and crafts, refreshments, and children's activities on Thursday Nights in the summer

During summer, artists and musicians frequent Sherman Square.

The Opera House, which opened in 1888, is known as the " Jewel of the Square " and is still used for the summer productions of the Dade County Community Theater.

After rising to local music scene stardom with their brand of funk metal fusion, reaching the point where they were " selling out Berkeley Square ", Wright left Primus in the summer of 1988 to be replaced by Jay Lane, drummer with the Freaky Executives, who were " getting dicked around by their record company ", as Claypool later described it.

The new additions to Town Square were completed in the summer of 2006, making it one of the most popular shopping centers in the Metroplex.

Clapton and Winwood released a CD and DVD of their Madison Square Garden shows and then toured together in the summer of 2009.

This development is however an increasing demand for outdoor summer cinema, since the early 1990s, before the Vienna City Hall every summer, the Film Festival at the Vienna City Hall Square takes place.

Slaughter and the Iron Sheik engaged in many matches throughout 1984, culminating in a boot camp match which took place before a sold out Madison Square Garden that summer.

Throughout the spring and summer of 1982, the Ceroc troupe worked with choreographer Michel Ange Lau, whose classes Cronin and Sylvia Coleman had attended at the Centre Charles Peguy, a French youth centre, in Leicester Square.

Money was still tight – in the summer of 1920 he briefly let out his house at Eaton Square.

In the summer of 2011, Good Morning America decided to vacate the first floor of the Times Square studios because of costs.

Bellevue Square Park hosts many concerts and festivals throughout late spring and summer.

His parents ran a Christian summer camp in Halkirk called Circle Square Ranch.

Ocean Grove was originally developed as a summer camp meeting site, and is referred to as " God's Square Mile at the Jersey Shore ".

In recent years, his engagements have included a Gala solo performance at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, a Kosovo Aid concert at St. John's Smith Square, London, with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields recitals at the Snape Proms, Aldeburgh, and at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and a tour of UK National Trust properties in summer and autumn 2000.

In summer an open-top bus tours the island leaving from Guildford Square by the ferry at 11am and 1pm.

The AMP organized events at the Taube Museum of Art and the Minot Public Library over the summer of 2004. There was considerable controversy over a show held in September 2004, a film festival put on by a travelling group espousing borderline criminal activities. The manager of the Dakota Square Mall asked the president of Minot State University to cancel the show, which was then scheduled to take place at the Aleshire Theatre on campus.

Canada Square in the summer is a popular grass area for events such concerts and TV screening of sporting events

After graduating from Fairport High School, Hoffman attended the Circle in the Square Theatre's summer program, continuing his acting training with the acting teacher Alan Langdon.

Rogers and Barend split briefly and feuded, but reunited that summer to defeat Bruno Sammartino & Bobo Brazil in Madison Square Garden 2 falls to 1.

Triple H was given this role in the summer of 1996 by Vince McMahon as punishment for the infamous Madison Square Garden Incident.