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...LEXINGTON, Mass.—In this small town most known for its “shot heard round the world,” local history is a town pastime, and for some, a serious hobby. Here local history tends to take the form of attempts to reconstruct a romanticized past...
This Boston suburb 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...
Town history has focused almost exclusively on the colonial period and the Revolutionary War. But the latest project of the Lexington Historical Society may be a signal that interest in local history is expanding into other topics. The society is in the process of renovating an old railroad depot to create a museum about the town’s development as a railroad suburb in the beginning of the twentieth century. But instead of describing daily life in 1915, the depot’s first major event—a showing of old footage from...
...white woman as the “Goddess of Peace” standing elevated above soldiers and rioters. Playing into the standard line of Lexington’s immense importance, the local paper wrote last week that this scene represents “the debt the world owes to Lexington for her attainment of liberty...
John M. “Jack” Barnaby ’32, a legendary coach of Harvard’s squash and tennis teams, died Feb. 13 in a nursing home in Lexington...