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Article: AT EASE IN DEVENS 250 CIVILIAN PIONEERS RELISHING HOME BASE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 13, 2003
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They came to this abandoned military base drawn by the reasonable
price tags and desirable location of the tidy brick homes built with
military precision in the 1930s.
Now they find themselves - just 250 residents - celebrating July
Fourth together, holding barbecues, and settling local issues in
monthly community meetings.
The 4,400-acre tract known as Devens,
which once housed tank companies, infantrymen, and Army hospitals,
is feeling more like home to these pioneers.
Community pride is growing, too, as some residents yearn for that
most New England form of identity: incorporation as a town.
"It's the best place I've ever lived," John Lindbeck, a 54-year-
old clinical social worker, said ...