THIRTY Cambridge-area stories to brag about? Nope. How about FORTY?! Or more! In this bonus episode you'll hear about ten more impressive local stories. You'll also learn how the many Cambridge-area contributions span eleven different categories, all at remarkable levels. Indeed, the Cambridge area has made contributions to our community, our nation, and our world vastly disproportionate to our modest population. This is the ultimate episode for Cambridge-area bragging.

The dude was short, real short. A runt. A pipsqueak. Shorty-short-stuff. Diminutive. And he was sickly to boot. Only five-feet three-inches tall with what’s now called Trigeminal Neuralgia. And yet, this guy fully earned the title, “Giant”. His is this season’s final episode, the capstone episode, for a reason. This Cambridge short-guy was as BIG as it gets.

Movie kingpins George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg are two of the greatest storytellers of all-time. They tell stories through thousands of frames of film. Star Wars. Jaws. Indiana Jones. But there's one storyteller Lucas and Spielberg look up to as THE greatest because he told great stories in just ONE frame. He was local. So were some of the faces in his famous frames.

Seventy-eight years old and what to do, what to do? Raise chickens? Nah. Pancake dinners? Nope. I know! I'll order that paint set from the Sears catalog, hang a painting in the White House, put some on postage stamps, and get my mug on the covers of Time and Life magazines. Yah, that's what I'll do!

Big global pharma companies do NOT illegally exaggerate claims about the efficacy of their products, right? RIGHT?? Get your bragging pants on because here's a fun story about one of the world's first global drug businesses, one that made big claims but always kept it legal.

You already know JB Rice ran a seed company here. But did you know how big it was? Did you know about his Civil War service? His work with the Fire Department? The Police Department? The local water company? The Fair? The Niagara Falls Bank? He planted it all . . . and indeed it grew!

His was the biggest machine ever built in the 19th Century. Its physical size was enormous. So was the impact it had on societies, urbanization, and (sadly) the slow decline of the world's small milltowns. You'll never see the sign for Greenwich's Corliss Avenue the same again.

Hey, if Buffalo Bill Cody thought she was cool, then she was cool! U.S. Presidents also thought she was cool. Queen Victoria too. Congress thought she was cool-maybe even cool enough to be carved into Mount Rushmore. All that, and she was worried nobody would take her seriously? Oh, you've gotta hear this one!

Mohican War Chief? Tribal Orator? Native leader who dealt with English Governors? Who met with Henry Hudson? Did you know that a great Mohican Chieftain made his home and headquarters right here in what we now call Eagle Bridge? Learn about all this and why we call the Owlkill . . . the Owlkill.  

Of all the places to live, this dude chose to live here. Why? Because, according to him, “locality gives art”. But apparently it does not give expertise at farming with cows. Oh, and who knew that’s what "peripatetic" means?  . . . Umm . . . this will all make sense when you listen to this episode.