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PHOTOS: Making History on the Common – Metro US

PHOTOS: Making History on the Common

The history buffs of the future were treated with a treasure trove of relics and lessons from the past on Monday, as nearlya thousand elementary school students converged on Boston Common for the seventh-annual”Making History” day.

Kids got to play Colonial-era games, meet costumed soldiers transported into the future, stick their heads through a stockade,and even spend some face-time with Boston City ArchaeologistJoe Bagley (who recently worked atan impromptu dig of an old shipwreck discovered in the Seaport).

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There was also plenty of oohing and aahingas some historiccannonsblasted nearbyon the Common, as part oftheAncient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts’ annual ceremony.