THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING

Restoring a place in history the old-fashioned way

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By Andrew Ryan
Globe Staff / April 3, 2009

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The rawhide hammer and rubber mallet reverberated yesterday in the crooked downtown alley, the thwap, thwap, thwap ricocheting off the walls. The simple sounds of hard hand labor fit the job: repaving a Colonial-era lane with 10- to 15-pound granite cobblestones. (Full article: 239 words)

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