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...city's oldest schools, they found, are still in use: Hawes Hall, South Boston, built in 1823; Lyceum Hall, Dorchester, 1839; Hobart School, Brighton, 1844; Alcott School, South End, 1847; Old Agassiz School, Jamaica Plain, 1834; and the Dwight and Franklin Schools, both South End, and Prescott School, Charlestown, all constructed...
...dough-faced creatures with bird-thin legs and toothless smiles. The colors were as exuberant as the designs: heads in chartreuse and grey, faces that were half yellow, half blue, with startling vermilion circles under the eyes. One of the favorites was a group project: a huge mural of Charlestown with all the details, including a nest of pigeon eggs perched on a church ledge...
Longfellow never wrote it, but he owed the great-great-grandfather of Charles Gates Dawes a poem. On the night when Paul Revere "spread the alarm through every Middlesex village and farm" between Charlestown and Lexington, William Dawes was rousing the sleepy colonists between Boston and Concord. In recent American history, the Dawes name has been hitched to three things-a pipe, a plan and a peppery phrase. The pipe was a low, underslung affair that traveled the smoke along a 15-inch channel, the plan was a reparations agreement that helped put Germany on its feet...
Small Alarm. In Charlestown, Mass., when a fire trapped Mr. & Mrs. Michael McCarthy in their third-floor bedroom, he pitched an alarm clock through the bunk-room window of a firehouse 40 feet away to arouse firemen...
...State Transfer Board, explained that every man at State Prison and Concord is screened at one time or another by his board for transfer to Norfolk. Originally, he said, it was hoped that all transfers would be excellent rehabilitation prospects. However because of overcrowding at the other institutions, especially Charlestown, the colony has had to receive well-behaved inmates who may have serious prior records and are frequently not the best prospects for satisfactory rehabilitation...