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...have joined UFS teams to provide professional assistance to low-income communities. Over 200 students from Harvard and other universities have participated in such projects as creating alternate urban renewal plans to oppose BRA plans for the South End; devising strategics to bring low and moderate income families to Lexington; investigating alternatives to the proposed Master Plan for Holyoke; setting up a management corporation for low-income tenants of the Bromley Health project in Jamaica Plain; and designing playgrounds, a community center, and youth centers in various areas of Boston. Both community residents and students view the program...
...learned about the "shot heard round the world." In junior high we learned that one-third of the colonists were for the revolution, one-third against it, and the rest (conveniently) undecided. In high school we learned that George Washington wasn't much of a hero. At the Lexington visitors' center, less than a half-hour by car from Cambridge, you learn that if the British had had tear-gas there might have been no revolution...
...Lexington is conspicuously proud of its part in American history. The common is studded with plaques and fringed by buildings with historical marker signs on them. Most of the shutters have little Minute-Man cut-outs, and a large restaurant on main street is named after them...
...side of the visitors' center is dominated by a diorama of the Battle of Lexington. The British are neatly lined up against a retreating group of outnumbered colonials. The text under the display says that the approaching British heard the drum roll the colonials used to summon their men and interpreted it as a call to battle. The ordered the Minute-Men to disperse. Shooting began when they didn...
...monument on the Lexington Common says the events there began something that didn't end until after it created a revolution...