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The Hometown Historians are local historians dedicated to preserving unique historical events, monuments, and sites before they slip from the pages of history.
ABOUT THE HOMETOWN HISTORIANS:
Andrew McAleer served as a U.S. Army Historian and is the author of the Henry von Stray historical mysteries. Von Stray’s latest exciting exploits appear in the newly released: A Casebook of Crime: Thrilling Adventures of Suspense from the Golden Age of Mystery.
William Kyle Auterio volunteers for the Lexington Historical Society as a greeter.
Signed copies of A Casebook of Crime available at the Lexington Barbershop.
The “Memorial to the Lexington Minute Men of April 19, 1775” was created by Russian-born sculptor Bashka “Bessie” Paeff (1894-1979). This bronze Memorial was cast in 1948 and is mounted…
Lexington Put into Coma by Harvard Medical School Graduate
I f you want to visit the Jefferson Institute in Lexington you can do so, however, you would have to travel back in time to 1978. The Jefferson Institute is…
An Exclusive Interview with Retired Lexington History Teacher Warren Winslow
Muzzey Junior High School and Clarke Middle School teacher Warren Winslow taught public school for forty years. His career as an educator began in Westford and Ayer before teaching Social…
Ponzi Schemes
MAY 2025 Lexington’s Charles Ponzi’s Infamous “Midnight Ride” O n his deathbed, one of the world’s most notorious swindlers of all time, Charles Ponzii boasted in his last interview…
Schoolmaster James Hayward – Citizen Soldier, Revolutionary Hero
Schoolmaster James Hayward – Citizen Soldier, Revolutionary Hero D uring the April 19, 1775, British retreat from Concord, intense close-quarter fighting occurred on Fiske Hill in Lexington near what we…
Lexington’s Sam Adams Connection
APRIL 2024 On the night of Paul Revere’s and William Dawes’ famous “Midnight Ride” from Boston to Concord on April 19, 1775, Founding Father and a signer of the Declaration…









