Show to mark year of boston common pageant next summer to depict historic events boston saved from modern road builders and street wideners only by the high powered indignation of the boston common society the ter tere centen enten ary of fifty acres of cow paths lawns and shrubbery uncrossed by rapid transit line or highway will be celebrated next summer of course thousands of persons are inconvenienced each day because of the disinclination of boston antiqua rians to let go another foot of land from the common for needed street or deimit the building of roads reads across it but other thousands revere it for its place in american his tory and the breathing space it affords in the heart of downtown boston for this reason a committee Is now raising a fund tentatively placed at to recon reconstruct strut the scenes and homes of vanished days the duels ducking stools and hangings during the he 1935 celebration ct cf its three hun dreith anniversary As it was years ago with the help of the emergency relief administration the committee headed by everett TS B mero hopes to draw from the past a representation of three hundred years of history to show the plot as it was when quakers and pirates dangled from its elms as it was when young woodbridge and his rival dueled at forty paces for the favors of a boston belle the committee if sufficient funds are raised hopes to reproduce the corn com mons mon s ducking stool show the er ers s circle where henpecked devo tees of nicotine repaired when driven from the home reproduce the spinning bee of 1753 when young ladies revealed their matronly traits tor for the edification of their swains the anti slavery meeting of the earl percy and his Pede redcoats oats before the revolution william blaston or blackstone bos dos ton tons s first settler who sold his land now the common to a community which he found too crowded and moved to rhode island beacon street when respectability stalked uncheck ed the coming of the railroad in 1830 the water celebration in 1848 when a pub I 1 c system was first installed the ar rival of lafayette on the common june 17 1825 when he came to attend the bunker hill exercises recruiting for the civil war in tents near tremont street all this and much more is in the scope of a celebration which could almost depict a nations history and progress as well as a city s first woman in boston soston anna I 1 ollard a woman noted for her plain face her fine tavern on bea con street and the fact that she was the first woman in boston may well find some mention in the ceremonies she was a favorite of the harvard class of 1638 as well as of 1639 and 1640 and others who loved her enter tain ment until at last she went to her reword rew ird in those days beacon hill accord ng to a recent description was the tenderloin distinct more than sixty of america americas s great soldiers poets statesmen presidents preachers architects were wont to roam in leisure hours the routes that crisscross criss cross this patch of tree studded green in the heart of a city |