The Boston Globe, April 19th, 1993
As the Freedom Trail snakes its way from the Old South Meeting House to the Old North Church and tour guides talk of great events, children wriggle and flail their arms, as if waiting for the rather modest-seeming buildings to shake again with the fevered rumblings of revolutionary Boston. That's the way they remember it from "Johnny Tremain," the enduringly popular novel for young adults that defined historic Boston in the popular imagination the way "Gone With the Wind" defined Atlanta, or "Huckleberry Finn" the Mississippi. Fifty years old this year, "Johnny Tremain" remains a beloved class...
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