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DIED. SEATTLE SLEW, 28, champion racehorse and the last surviving one to win the Triple Crown; 25 years to the day after his 1977 victory at the Kentucky Derby, which was followed that year by dramatic wins in the Preakness and Belmont Stakes; in his sleep; near Lexington, Ky. The noble Thoroughbred won 14 of 17 starts, made $1,208,726 and sired more than 100 stakes winners...
...Symphony Orchestra for more than three decades; in Moscow. Svetlanov appeared as a guest for various orchestras around the world, finally getting fired from the symphony for spending too much time conducting abroad. DIED. SEATTLE SLEW, 28, the only living winner of the Triple Crown, of old age; in Lexington, Kentucky. Considered the last of the superhorses, Slew won more than a million dollars during his racing career and fathered 99 stakes winners that have earned their owners $75 million in prize money. DIED. YVES ROBERT, 81, prolific French producer and director of several comedies and literary adaptions such...
Originally known as the Lexington Training Band, this local militia, like others around Massachusetts, was cobbled together from residents of the community, 144 in total. Each member took this oath in order to join: “We trust in God that, should the state of our affairs require it, we shall be ready to sacrifice our estates and everything dear in life, yea, and life itself, in support of the common cause.” Today, rather than simply joining the band, applicants must be sponsored by members to gain admission. Now membership is capped at 77, to remain...
...read ‘Paul Revere’s Ride’ when I was 12,” says Dan H. Fenn Jr. ’44, a former Crimson president and Harvard lecturer. “I had always been fascinated with history and interested in Lexington in particular, because it was a time when people stood and fired on others who were part of their same community,” says McCarthy. Samuel A. Forman says he has always been interested in history, especially colonial Boston. He even wrote a historical novel about the siege of Boston...
Harvard students probably don’t think twice about the events behind the plaques and markers that adorn this campus. But next Patriots’ Day, student will be just a pre-dawn bike ride away from witnessing history in reenactment form. The Lexington Minute Men will be on the green—as they were more than 225 years...