The Boston Globe, April 26th, 1987
They are more important than Concord and Lexington, Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights. Only gunshots echo there. Faneuil Hall and the Old State House are not just handsome buildings and attractive tourist stops. They are the essence of Boston because they are the shrines of liberty. Freedom echoes there. Yet their balconies are encrusted with peeling paint, their window frames are rotted with mildew, and their water pipes are weakened from decades of tidal flow. If these shrines are not repaired, they may soon become structurally unsound, depriving generations of Americans from visiting the s...
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