Word: concorde
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...THERE, drive down Mass. Ave, to Lexington Center, and then down Rte. 2A into the middle of Concord. Go to the left of the Colonial Inn in Concord Center, take a right on Liberty St. and a left on Estabrook Road. This last is a dirt dead-end that stretches about half a mile; at its end are a farmhouse, and a sign that says, in the same quaint letters that mark Wadsworth House, or Massachusetts Hall, "Harvard University Forest." You expect a desk, with an old man to check bursar's cards on the way in and to make...
...Concord has no mountains and this network of trails winds through what are at best hillocks. Half a mile away, on lower ground by the river, the first British dead of the Revolutionary War fell, and if this land was cleared then, you could have seen the brief battle. And if you had stood for a little while after the battle, you would have seen--so legend has it--a young boy, hired hand in a nearby farm, happen by, axe in hand, and dispatch a wounded Redcoat. The excesses of revolutionaries are not peculiar...
...land has grown out now, and the placid Concord is hidden. There are, however, lots of ferns, rotting logs, pine trees, deciduous trees, and horse-leavings. Once I emerged from the woods to find a familiar red-and-white shuttle bus at the entrance, bearing Biology students out for a serious day's work. But the Forest is big enough to swallow up any crowd; certainly it is among the most peaceable corners of this University...
...ambitious Lawrence dam partners now have several more hydropower sites in New England under development. They are building a $6.3 million project on the Contoocook River near Concord, N.H., and a $2 million one on the Wells River in Vermont. The two dams will serve a total of about 5,000 customers...
...ownership of his operation. When the plan was started in 1967, it attracted a small army of businessmen willing to put in long hours in return for the promise of making it big. Recalls John Puccinelli, who was a restaurant manager for three years in Concord, Calif.: "They recruited us by saying that if you'll stay with Sambo's for ten years, you'll be set for the rest of your life...