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Parker’s Revenge Exhibit Opens At Minute Man National Historical Park

On April 19, 1775, despite heavy casualties just hours before, Lexington’s Captain John Parker made the courageous decision to rally his troops and pursue the British on their march back from Concord to Boston. More than 240 years later, after extensive archaeological research over the last three years, Minute Man National Historical Park has erected an exhibit celebrating the little known but noteworthy battle called “Parker’s Revenge.”

Land On Fire

Charred landscapes, smoke-filled skies and, in some cases, shuttered national park lodges are becoming the new norm in the western United States. Why is this happening? In Land On Fire, Gary Ferguson provides a course on wildfire in a West made drier, hotter, and more combustible by climate change.