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Speaker 1: Come in and bring your unit the order off.

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Speaker 2: It was on this day, in this very spot on

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Speaker 2: Prospect Hill now two hundred and fifty years ago, that

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Speaker 2: shaped history as we know it.

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Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty years ago today, General George Washington

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Speaker 1: ordered the first American flag raised right here on Prospect.

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Speaker 2: Hill, Somerville's mayor, marking the occasion, just steps away from

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Speaker 2: the Prospect Hill Monument, She says, this hill became a

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Speaker 2: part of a story Americans would know by heart.

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Speaker 3: This was an important moment in the Revolution because the

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Speaker 3: Continental Army was reconstituted and kind of reborn and reinjected

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Speaker 3: with morale.

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Speaker 2: Stephanie Marlin carry Out, the executive director of the Somerville Museum, says,

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Speaker 2: it's nice to honor the history here.

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Speaker 3: This is a really significant place, and people don't know

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Speaker 3: it because it was called Charlestown at the time and

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Speaker 3: now it's called Somerville. But so we are left out

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Speaker 3: of the story. So often, you know, we hear about Cambridge, Boston,

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Speaker 3: Lexington conquered in Somerville.

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