Cambridge Common

Yeah, you know, common ground, that concept, whether it be from the Aspen Institute or from this book or Franklin, meant a lot to me, which is, all right, we share the certain things we put in the common.

And it occurred to me, in fact, as I was writing this book, that, you know, when I went to school up in Boston, I went and I saw the Boston Common and the Cambridge Common.

And I thought, "These are nice parks, not nearly as pretty as Golden Gate Park or Audubon Park." But then, then I realized they were not parks.

Back then, John Locke said, where there's disparities of wealth and certain people own most of the land, they're allowed to have those property rights as long as enough and is good is left in common.

Jane and Jim Humphreys went to dinner that evening with a group of anthropology classmates at the Acropolis restaurant in Cambridge, a regular spot for the department crowd.

Afterward, the two of them went ice skating on the Cambridge Common, a public park a short walk from Harvard Yard, the kind of spontaneous date that felt perfectly normal on a winter night in a college town.

They returned to Jane's apartment at Six University Road sometime around 10:30 that evening.

Humphreys stayed until roughly 11:30, then left for the night.