I got this softcover at Toadstool Books in Nashua. It's a detailed history of that portion of the American Revolution, with lots of tie-ins to other famed battles and people. I especially like the sections of photos – lots of images of period portraits of the main characters, and of drawings and paintings of the battle itself and of Boston’s terrain at the time. Since this was before the massive filling-in of the back-bay, the contours are quite different from modern-day Boston, and it’s fascinating to try and imagine it as it was. (Favorite sub-elements included Henry Knox and his epic journey to retrieve much-needed cannons from Fort Ticonderoga in New York, hauling them downriver and then across the length of Massachusetts via ox-teams and in winter. (His portrait shows a plump, pleased-looking fellow - more suitable for his bookstore-owner persona than for the long-distance toil of the Ticonderoga trek!) Another interesting portrait is of John Quincy Adams as a very grumpy-looking old man; it was taken the year the Bunker Hill Memorial was dedicated, though Adams refused to go to the ceremony. He'd watched parts of the battle (along with many other Bostonians, who perched on their rooftops for the purpose) as a young boy, and never forgot the grisly mayhem...

The book touches on many people and events (including Phillis Wheatley, an African-American author and poet, who commented on the "strange absurdity" of the colonists' aims for independence while condoning slavery), but centers on the young doctor Joseph Warren, whose early death at the battle of Breed's Hill deprived the young America of an able and charismatic leader.

Guidelines for safely visiting and stocking Little Free Libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the LFL site here.

I plan to leave this book, bagged against the elements, on a bench or step near the monument - my first visit to Bunker Hill despite living in the area since 1978 {wry grin}; hope someone enjoys it!

[Update: left as planned, hanging from the fence on the (I think) west-side entrance, on this very cold and windy day.]

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*** Released for the 2021 4 Elements challenge. ***

*** Released for the 2021 52 Towns in 52 Weeks challenge. ***