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VOLUME XVIII - ISSUE 23
Cannon Dedication on the Heights by Rick Winterson To be exact, the replica of a cannon from Fort Ticonderoga was unveiled precisely at noon – as local bells tolled 12 times – last Saturday, June 4, a bright, sunny day on Dorchester Heights/Thomas Park. Precisely 240 years and three months ago (to the day) – Monday, March 4, 1776 – General John Thomas fortified Dorchester Heights, which forced the British to evacuate Boston 13 days later on March 17, almost a year after the blockade and the Battle for Boston began. General Thomas accomplished this mission under orders from General George Washington, emplacing 59 cannons on the Heights, the highest natural point around Boston, thus menacing the British ships moored in Boston Harbor. The cannons came overland from Fort
Ticonderoga in upstate New York drawn by teams of oxen. This effort was led by Colonel Henry Knox, the “Bookseller from Boston”, later to become Washington’s Secretary of War. Fort Ticonderoga had been “liberated” from British hands the year before on Wednesday, May 10, 1775, by Lieutenant Colonel Benedict Arnold, along with Vermont’s Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. This event was actually the first colonial victory in our War for Independence, soon to be known as “Evacuation Day”. A monument to this victory, in the Mayflower style of architectural design, was commissioned in 1898; it was dedicated in 1902 by the first Henry Cabot Lodge. Since then, Evacuation Day has been the most important holiday Continuesd on page 12
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Open Studios at Artists for Humanity sponsors this creative activby Rick Winterson Eight young artists are demonstrating their “en plein air” works of art in the sunken courtyard at Artist for Humanity’s EpiCenter Building at the corner of A and Second Streets. Artists for Humanity
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