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News - Abigail Adams

2008-09-05 18:00:10

By STEPHANIE CHOATE QUINCY - Some newspaper corrections take longer than others - 56 years longer. In a 1952 article about the Abigail Adams cairn - as well as subsequent articles - the Quincy Patriot Ledger said the cairn was commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

2008-08-28 09:00:44

By JENNIFER MANN HISTORY REVEALED QUINCY - The names weren't etched in ox blood as some people had speculated, but the unrolling of an 1896 scroll still drew oohs and aahs from 21st-century spectators.

2008-08-26 18:00:00

By STEPHANIE CHOATE Quincy People can see for themselves what has been inside the time capsule found in the Abigail Adams cairn for 112 years on Monday evening. City officials will open the time capsule at 6 at the Quincy Historical Society, Adams Academy building on Adams Street.

2008-08-25 15:00:34

John J. Stanton, a stonemason and native of Ireland, was paid $2.25 a day to build the Abigail Adams Cairn. The whole job cost the Adams chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution $200. The restoration work going on now will cost the city about $500,000 [ correction: $50,000 ]. Mrs.

2008-07-01 18:00:11

By LIZ HOFFMAN WEYMOUTH - The Abigail Adams Birthplace opens for its summer season Tuesday, celebrating 61 years of honoring Weymouth's favorite daughter. Adams, the wife of the second president and mother of the sixth, lived at the home from her birth until her marriage to John Adams in 1764.

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