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...CONCORD, N.H.—One hundred bleary-eyed members of the Harvard College Democrats piled aboard three yellow school buses at 9 a.m. Saturday morning to begin the long trek—getting out the vote in the Granite State...
Another willing older worker is Frank Dillon, 65, of Concord, Calif. After 37 years as a marketing executive at PG&E, Dillon enjoys a generous pension benefit and has personal assets of more than $1 million. He spent his first golden year exactly as he had envisioned--reading, playing some golf and, one by one, knocking off several odd jobs and improvements such as building a deck at his home. But then something he had not envisioned intruded on years of planning: he got bored. So he took a part-time job supervising tee times at a nearby golf club...
...likes to masquerade as a quaint New England village and glorify its role in the American Revolution. Every year on Patriot’s Day—the Mass. state holiday in April that commemorates the battle of Lexington (and maybe some other battle that might have occurred in Concord)—a troupe of Lexington residents dress up in colonial-style garb, take up muskets loaded with blanks and reenact the battle of Lexington. The town’s Historic Districts Commission must approve everything along the stretch of Mass. Ave. that serves as the town center?...
...Indian Wars, with additional target practice from hunting, and preparation as part of the town’s training band. Instead of driving the British away like sheep, the Lexingtonians sustained heavy losses, killed only two British soldiers, and did not prevent the British from marching onward to Concord...
This defense of Lexington’s historical significance often results in clashes with nearby Concord, that other town that (falsely, from the Lexington view) claims the shot heard round the world. In 1824, Concord resident Samuel Hoar claimed in a speech that his town had made the first “forcible resistance” to the British, offending Lexington’s town pride and sparking the appointment of a committee to collect evidence on the battles of Lexington and Concord. The 40-page pamphlet that resulted from the committee not surprisingly documented Lexington’s noble...