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Article: INTO THE THICKET OF TIME NEW FIGHT SEEN OVER PLAN TO CLEAR TREES IN MINUTE MAN PARK TREE CUTTING EXPECTED TO SPUR PROTEST
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 18, 2002
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Again, as in 1999, workers at Minute Man National Historical Park
will chop down century-old elms and oaks this year to create a
landscape more closely akin to the one upon which Colonists started
the American Revolution.
And again, park officials are bracing for the angry phone calls
from people who think the trees have been there forever.
But, park officials say, these leafy interlopers are rather in the
way of history, obstacles that prevent visitors from gaining a fully
accurate picture of what really happened here on April 19, 1775.
The Colonist-eye-view was most likely a wide-open horizon of
fields and pastures, divided by miles of low, hand-built stone walls,