"Harvard Square is the Harvard community andall the people around in thecommunity...regardless of what buildings arethere," she says.
For Janet, she finds amusement in old Harvardgrads returning to the Square, marveling at thechange.
"It's changed a lot since the `60s,' they'llsay. `Yeah, right. You went to Harvard, right?'"she laughs.
And ultimately, the building, even in itscommercialized state, reflects the character ofHarvard Square as Cambridge has evolved from asmall-town city with local industries to the moreupscale cosmopolitan center that it is in 1999.
And what if it merely remained the same?
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For the Cahalys, the answer is simple.
"We'd still be in the horse and wagons, and thecarriage house would still be here," she says