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Revere| Town in Suffolk County, east-central Massachusetts, situated on the Broad Sound of Massachusetts Bay, the Chelsea River, and the Pines River, 6 km/4 mi northeast of Boston; population (2000 est) 47,300. It was known as a resort from the 19th century, and has 6 km/3 mi of beaches, a dog track, and various other recreational facilities. It is now more a residential community, with some light industry. |
| Settled in 1636 as part of Boston, the town as named after American revolutionary Paul Revere, and incorporated in 1871, becoming a city in 1914. |
| Revere was the site of Wonderland Park, an early amusement park, which operated 1906–1911. The beach, which was the first public beach in the USA, and the amusement parks deteriorated in the 1950s, and many of the dilapidated buildings did not survive a major blizzard in 1978. The beach area was renovated and reopened in 1992, but with much of the former resort area given over to housing. |
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| "If you haven't a taste that way," said Revere between his puffs of his cheroot, "you'll never be able to get the hang of it, but remember, Bobby, 'tisn't the best drill, though drill is nearly everything, that hauls a Regiment through Hell and out on the other side. Father Claude taught the boy to respect the rights of others, to espouse the cause of the poor and weak, to revere God and to believe that the principal reason for man's existence was to protect woman. She was elderly and fragile, but her childlessness seemed always to impose these painful duties on her, and to revere the family, and to keep it in repair, had now become the chief object of her life. |