Word: charlestown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wednesday, July 19, the historical excursion will begin seeing Boston from the point where the excursion of the previous Wednesday ended and, in special buses, will explore the North End and Charlestown. During the colonial period the North End was the best residential district of Boston, now it is the Italian district. In North Square, the only structure of the period standing is the house of Paul Revere, the oldest house in Boston, erected in 1676 and occupied by Paul Revere at the time he rode his "midnight ride." Here the party will have an opportunity to view articles belonging...
Proceeding to Charlestown the party will go through the Charlestown Navy Yard and after a short ride will arrive at Breeds Hill where the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought. Tablets mark the important points of the battle and an opportunity is given to those who wish to climb Bunker Hill Monument which affords an excellent view of Boston...
...apple trees "in the Yard," literally the backyard of his house. This original Yard extended across the site of Wadsworth House (the yellow wooden building at the corner of the Yard next to Lehman Hall) to about the middle of University Hall and including an extension to "Charlestown Road", (Kirkland Street), covering the site of Holworthy and Stoughton. It was not until 1835, however, after a long-career as a cow-pasture and wheat field that the Yard attained its present dimensions. The term "Campus," heard with revolting frequency by visitors to Cambridge who are not "in-the-know...
...paint, formed the psychic's equipment. "Several professors wore illuminated Electric bands on feet and wrists, and illuminated marks fastened on the center of the forehead with tape." Twenty minutes after the session began, "Walter," the spirit, began to speak. "This is a nice, comfortable room: looks like the Charlestown Jall. What's this, a free country? To--with Harvard." The trance began. Later Walter asked Code to put the "doughnut," an illuminated paper disc, on the table. In doing so, Code touched the psychic structure in the center of the table. "It felt like the fieshy part...
...Silsby of Fairhaven, James M. Smith of Wellesley, Wilder Smith of Gloucester , Manes Specter of Cambridge, Charles H. Stanton of Boston, John M. Strachan of Hude Park, David U, Sullivan of Cambridge, Edward D. Sulivan of Dorchester, James J. Sullivan of Dorchester, Leo E. Sweeney, Jr.. of Charlestown, Henry W. Syer of Sommerville, Paul C. Tiffany of Cambridge, Elwyn E. Tilden, Jr. of Holbrook, Frederick B. Tolles of Newtonville, Minot W. Tripp of Falmouth, Alexander A. Valois, Jr. of Cambridge, Herbert H. Walley, Jr. of West Newton, Herbert S. Wallis of Cambridge, Herbert H. Walley, Jr. of West Newton...