A short road running through the campus of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod has been renamed because its namesake fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and supported slavery.
Maury Lane is now officially called Marie Tharp Lane. The school has erected a temporary sign and plans to replace it with a permanent sign eventually, according to The Cape Cod Times.
[CORRECTION, 7 p.m. Friday, March 12, 2021: A previous version of this story included a provision that appeared in a draft version of the Cambridge ordinance on polyamory but was not included in the final version passed by the city council. The draft version required that members of a domestic partnership "are not in a domestic partnership outside this partnership," but that provision was removed before the vote.]
Make that two Massachusetts cities that officially recognize polyamory.
