You may recall the failed effort in the state Senate to repeal Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day. Forget the hack issue. Over in Charlestown, where they have some hallowed Revolutionary ground, some people are annoyed at this affront to the memory of those who payed the ultimate price for our nation's freedom:

... With Bunker Hill Day approaching, isn't it amazing that one would use our country's history, our state's history, OUR neighborhood's history to make a speech and mock us (several republicans did so and several members of the Senate voted to rescind these recognitions of our special history). A big thanks to Senator Jack Hart, who was the only one to rise and defend our traditions (Galluccio did not chooose to defend Bunker Hill Day by speaking on the floor of the Senate) so thanks Jack Hart from all the friends of Bunker Hill Day and for taking on the Republicans.

Of course, Hart represents South Boston, which played a key role in forcing the British out on Evacuation Day.

Lolita Parker Jr. took a trolley bus tour, led by state Rep. Byron Rushing, of key religious sites in Roxbury.

Mike Ball takes us on a tour of the site where the utopian Brook Farm used to be, in West Roxbury:

... Brook Farm though is shade with mere glimpses and hints of what was. There's the barest foundation of the Margaret Fuller cottage (she visited frequently but was never a member of the farm) and some rubble. Mostly though, the unkind farmland that yielded poor crops remains. ...

They used to be at the corner of Washington and Avery streets downtown, which I know thanks to this photo, one of 1,900 or so photos taken in the mid-1950s of Boston and Cambridge and just posted as a Flickr set by MIT.

Via Third Decade.

Joel Brown reports the intersection of Charles Street South and Boylston Street will be named Edgar Allan Poe Square on Monday at 11 a.m.

Brown notes the irony of Tom Menino officially renaming the square for Poe - who derided Boston as "Frogpondia" and couldn't wait to get out of his hometown - because Menino just announced he's running for re-election and Poe died during a drunken binge while campaigning for some Baltimore politician running for re-election.

Jay Fitzgerald explains why Edward and Lincoln Filene belong in any pantheon of Boston business history.

Furore as Redcoat stabs, beats Jason Russell to death in front of his own home this very afternoon.

Reports reach us that chastened regulars beating a slow retreat from their whupping at North Bridge in Concord this morning set upon the citizens of Menotomy, attempting to ransack and burn down houses in the village as brave patriots assembled at Jason Russell's house to try to stop them.

Attacked from two sides, the Patriots fell victim to His Majesty's Loathsome Musketballs and Swords:

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! ...

Richard Howe discusses.