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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Upside with Jordan, a dose of good news because it's a big world out there. And credit goes to WBZ Radio's Kyle Bray for reporting on this story about our friends at the Somerville Museum, which is now leading the cause, to pay tribute to one of that city's most endearing and, quite frankly, influential milestones. According to the Somerville Museum, that city is the home of the very first residential phone call, not just in New England, but in the entire world. It happened in 1877. And the man who called his wife, because that's what you're supposed to do, was Charles Williams, one of Alexander Graham Bell's colleagues. The museum is honoring the unique history of Somerville and its contributions with a project called Let Freedom Ring, and it includes old-fashioned telephone boxes created by artists that are on display throughout the city. Other Somerville firsts are being highlighted during America's 250th, but the next time you make a phone call, if that still happens, I think it does, remember that Somerville was where so much of it started. And that's The Upside with Jordan WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Upside with Jordan, a dose of good news because it's a big world out there. And credit goes to WBZ Radio's Kyle Bray for reporting on this story about our friends at the Somerville Museum, which is now leading the cause, to pay tribute to one of that city's most endearing and, quite frankly, influential milestones. According to the Somerville Museum, that city is the home of the very first residential phone call, not just in New England, but in the entire world. It happened in 1877. And the man who called his wife, because that's what you're supposed to do, was Charles Williams, one of Alexander Graham Bell's colleagues. The museum is honoring the unique history of Somerville and its contributions with a project called Let Freedom Ring, and it includes old-fashioned telephone boxes created by artists that are on display throughout the city. Other Somerville firsts are being highlighted during America's 250th, but the next time you make a phone call, if that still happens, I think it does, remember that Somerville was where so much of it started. And that's The Upside with Jordan WBZ, Boston's news radio.
