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Saturday, April 21, 2012

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Five Things You Need to Know This Weekend: April 21 & 22

Civil War Remembrance, Celebrate Earth Day, Meet Wally the Green Monster, and more...

1. Stoughton Reads Together - Civil War Remembrance Join the Stoughton Public Library for a day of Civil War Remembrance with a parade, reenactments, camp, drills, bayonet and cooking demonstrations with the Massachusetts 12th Volunteer Regiment and the 54th Volunteer Infantry, Company A. It takes place from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. at the Stoughton Public Library and at Faxon Park. A full event schedule is posted here and here.  2. Stoughton Public Library & Youth Commission Celebrate Earth Day Celebrate Earth Day, Saturday, April 21, 2012 at the Stoughton Public Library: * 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. - Info Tables in Plaza * 10 a.m. - noon - Farm Visit with Dawn Cordeiro * 1 p.m. - Gwendolyn the Dancing Pig Full details are posted here.  3. More Earth …

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Stoughton Public Library, Faxon Veterans Memorial Park, ABOUT TOWN: Civil War Parade and Earth Day Celebration This Weekend in Stoughton, and 5 more ›

Thursday, April 19, 2012

About Town with Mark Snyder

ABOUT TOWN: Civil War Parade and Earth Day Celebration This Weekend in Stoughton

Welcome to "About Town with Mark Snyder," a column that will keep you up to the minute with what's what, who's who and what's going on around town. If you see or hear something we could use here, let us know by sending an e-mail to pmpco@aol.com.

FRIDAY MORNING HISTORIC TOUR: On Friday, April 20, starting at 10 a.m., there will be a guided 1.5-mile hike from the picturesque Bradley P. Lessa Playground on West Street to observe vernal pools, budding trees and plants, the Gilbert Quarries, and the Benjamin/Lemuel Bird family barn cellar.  This is a massive stone structure, with entrance paths newly-cleared by Gerry McDonald of the Conservation Commission. Dwight MacKerron, of the Stoughton Historical Society, will serve as tour guide and will reveal two recently discovered sites from which stones for this structure may have been quarried. *** CIVIL WAR PARADE AND MORE: Saturday, April 21, at 1 p.m., there will be a Civil War Parade and Reenactment starting at Town Hall and going to …

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ABOUT TOWN: 200 Walk For Lessa Playground Expansion (And More...), Patch Passport: Travel Back in Time—The Stoughton Historical Society, 2012 Stoughton Reads Together Book Selection Brings Town Back to Civil War Era, and 7 more ›

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