Tag: arlington historical society

• Arlington Town Day

  

  September 14th was Arlington’s 2019 Town Day. That’s 43 annual Town Days since 1976, put on by the town to showcase everything Arlington has to offer.

  Ray Bernoff

  September 14, 2019

  Events, Photos

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• Menotomy Indian Hunter

  

  At the center of the garden between Town Hall and the Robbins Library, on a crest above a long, shallow reflecting pool, kneels a statue of a Native American man. He’s equipped for a hunt. His catch for the day, a goose, rests by his foot. The 1911 statue is by Cyrus Edwin Dallin, a…

  Ray Bernoff

  August 12, 2019

  History, People, Photos

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• Old Burying Ground

  

  The Old Burying Ground’s most notable residents are Jason Russell and the 11 other revolutionists whom the British killed during the first day of the American Revolutionary War.

  Ray Bernoff

  April 23, 2019

  History, Photos, Places

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