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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesDJarvis" data-source="post: 2219959" data-attributes="member: 2515">King Philips WarMy family cut ice on "Fresh pond" in the boston area.The Boston Tea PartyThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and others.The Battle of Lexington and ConcordA couple of blocks from my boyhood home there is a plaque commerating the life and death of an elderly man to old and weak to join the younger men as a minute man but stood on hs porch firing on the british regulars as the passed on the road, two sappers were sent in to bayonet him.The Battle of Bunker Hill (most of which ddin't take place on bunker hill)More of the Revolutionary WarOne of my famos but remote ancestors: Nathaniel Wyeth. Look him up.The Brinks Job, a famous robbery that a fair movie was made about.The Boston StranglerI lived through the Busing CrisisI now live a couple a miles away from "Americas Stonhenge"  it used to be called "Mystery Hill", i like the old name more, it is supposedly pre colonial ruins of celtic origin.not strictly 30 miles away from home but of home based siginfigance:Some of my english ancestors were on the 4th ship to land at the Plymouth colony.My Itlaian great grandfather used to light the old gas streetlanps in Brooklyn.</blockquote>