BHS Class of 1971 Pulls Off a Rock Concert with The Grass Roots
On February 17, 1970, 1,500 kids attended a rock concert in our high school gym. The Grass Roots played a 60-minute set. Now where’s that broken drumstick?
50 years ago this month, August edition
Burlington man shot dead in Tewksbury.
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We rejected a “Beacon Village” behind St. Margaret’s in ’67
But we allowed Beacon Village just afterward.
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We rejected greyound racing in ’46
Proposal fell just 55 votes short at a raucous Town Meeting
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1957 phone book plucked from the abyss
Phone books are the dullest documents ever — but not when they’re 61 years old.
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50 years ago this month, July edition
A mall grand opening. And, unfortunately, a murder.
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One small town helped “one small step”
RCA in Burlington was instrumental, literally, in getting men to the moon.
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St. Margaret’s began humbly in a frigid barn
It was so cold, the priest could barely hold the Holy Eucharist.
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50 years ago this month, June edition
Burlington’s first bank robbery?
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Behind the stone walls of this “Little House”
Kent Cottage might be Burlington’s loneliest house. Who will adopt it?
