Concord

Suburban kids to get taste of city school life today

adamg — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:19:08 +0000

Students at Concord-Carlisle Regional High will have to go through metal detectors and are being told to leave backpacks at home because of threatening messages found in the boy's room, Channel 4 reports.

Shouting and huzzaing

adamg — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:05:12 +0000

J.L. Bell posts a deposition from Edward Thoroton Gould, a lieutenant in His Majesty's 4th Regiment of Foot who was on the front line at the Battle at the Old North Bridge.

... On our arrival at that place, we saw a body of provincial troops, armed, to the number of about sixty or seventy men. On our approach, they dispersed, and soon after firing began, but which party fired first I can not exactly say, as our troops rushed on shouting and huzzaing previous to the firing, which was continued by our troops so long as any of the provincials were to be seen. ...

Father Austin Fleming, who lives in Concord, reports:

Just after midnight tonight I'll hear a fife and drum corps marching down Main Street to the green in Monument Square, where I live.

Only in Concord, Massachusetts might a parade pass by your home at midnight! ...

Oh, Henry

adamg — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:18:59 +0000

Chris Devers reports that if the statue is life-sized, then Thoreau was pretty short.

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When her friend died at Walden Pond

adamg — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:24:26 +0000

Jett Travolta's seizure-related death gets Christine to remembering when her friend Andy drowned at Walden Pond after suffering a seizure.

Concord farmstand burns to the ground

adamg — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:31:57 +0000

Verrill Farms this afternoon:

Why they call it Patriots Day

adamg — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:22:36 +0000

BattleRoad.org has a complete calendar of events for today and tomorrow - and historical info.

J.L. Bell finishes up destroying every myth we hold dear about Paul Revere, ending with the fable that his ride actually made a difference.

Photos: Patriots Day in Concord.

What Paul Revere really yelled on his midnight ride

adamg — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:46:35 +0000

It wasn't "The British are coming!"

Walking onto Walden Pond

adamg — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:22:14 +0000

Evan reports on his trek (so no, he didn't fall through); he saw plenty of ice-fishing holes and a snowman standing on the ice in the middle of the pond.

Joe Driscoll stayed firmly on solid ground as he photographed Forest Hills Cemetery in the snow.

Kid on the ice

adamg — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:54:01 +0000

Had to be talked out of trying to walk clear across Walden Pond.

Gourdgeous day at the end of an era

adamg — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:16:46 +0000

We haven't been keeping up with our Concord news, so we were shocked yesterday when we made our annual trek to Arena Farms to learn the place was closing forever on Oct. 31:

Sometimes, creepy-looking guys really are creepy

adamg — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:51:19 +0000

Stacey reports on an encounter with a creepy-looking creep in Concord Center.

The best Minuteman statue

adamg — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:41:57 +0000

In a battle to the death, Jay Fitzgerald would give the nod to Concord's Minuteman:

... The hat does it for me. The Lexington statue makes the Minuteman look like a slimmed down version of Paul Bunyan. Besides, I like Concord center more than Lexington center. ... So there. Someone had to settle this simmering debate. ...

Paul Revere's ride

adamg — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:33:28 +0000

J.L. Bell sets the historical record straight on Henry Longfellow and his poem:

... "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" is bound to be a better story than "The Midnight Rides of Dozens of Guys, Most of Whom I Can't Name." ...

Rest in peace, Sophia Hawthorne

adamg — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:59:41 +0000

Sandouri Dean Bey got to know Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife while working as a tour guide at Salem's House of the Seven Gables:

... It has been said that when Hawthorne wrote The House of the Seven Gables, he based the character of Phoebe on his beloved Sophia. ...

Remembering Massachusetts' war dead on April 19, 1775

adamg — Mon, 29 May 2006 23:05:34 +0000

J.L. Bell discusses the patriots who died on April 19, including Edward Barber, of Charlestown, age 14.