For this Concord class, history unfolds right in the middle of their town
âHe wasnât asked to join the war. He joined himself and tried to help the country⦠That was really cool.â
By Thomas Farragher Globe Columnist,Updated April 19, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Sydney Holloman-Pressley with her students at the Willard School, where they conducted research that led to Concord s decision to honor George Washington Dugan, the town s sole Black Civil War soldier.Sydney Pressley/Willard School
CONCORD â As they sat at their fifth-grade desks here at Willard Elementary School, what struck these kids in this history-rich town was the essential unfairness of it all.