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Outside historical accounts by professional historians—rather than zealous townies??describe a different picture. These accounts avoid the hyperbole and colorful rhetoric of the town’s pageants and popular history. These 77 “untrained farmers” were mostly veterans of the French and 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...
...short while ago, a horrifyingly gauche society known as The Cambridge Center for Adult Education provided their culturally and aesthetically degenerate “townies?? with the opportunity to indulge in their senses. The wine tasting event (clearly appealing to an arriviste set) was pompously entitled “The Chianti Wars.” In retrospect, it was very Christian and noble of them: an attempt to stem the inevitable tide of a decaying Western Civilization, as evinced by Dan, the transvestite who sat to the left of our fearless author. Perhaps I was overcome...
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