Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Industries and the Park Agency, Inc., have disposed of the family's holdings in Manhattan. The golden touch that Kennedy enjoyed in his dealings is illustrated by the largest single transaction in this slow, quiet process of liquidation. In 1943 Kennedy bought the property at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue, on which Alexander's department store now stands, for $1,900,000, with only $100,000 in cash. In the fall of 1963, the property was sold for $6,000,000 in cash...