Thanks Vegaspilgrim for setting the record straight with the weather in Colorado! Now you have me wanting to check out Arizona if that's the average year round there!
To continue about historical Boston & Charlestown, especially the Bunker Hill Monument. Here is something I'll share with you guys that's pretty interesting to read. We saved it because my father back in the 30's & 40's and many many others in the town that grew up there, gave all the tourists this "25 cent tour" of the Bunker Hill Monument, as follows:
This monument stands two-hundred and twenty-one feet in height. It has two-hundred and ninety-four winding stairs and no elevator. It is built entirely of pure Quincy granite, hauled here from the quarries of Quincy on the first horse-drawn railroad ever built in this part of the country. The statue you see in the foreground is that of Colonel William Prescott who is said to be standing in the same attitude and position as when he gave his most famous and bravest command: 'Don't fire, boys, until you see the whites of their eyes. Aim low and pick off the officers first.' At this command, more than twenty-five percent of the British officers were killed or wounded. The British made three attempts to gain this hill. The first two were unsuccessful. On the third attempt, the Americans ran out of ammunition and, using their rifles as clubs, were forced to retreat. Marquis de Lafayette, a French ally and also a French General, laid the cornerstone in 1825, while young Daniel Webster gave the oration for the day: 'Let it rise, let it rise until it reaches the sky for all the brave men who have fought and died here!' This hill is really not Bunker Hill, it is Breeds Hill. Bunker Hill is three-quarters of a mile northwest in that direction (youngster points), containing no historical value whatsoever. This hill was three times its present height when the battle took place but has been cut down to its present size, and the dirt taken from it was used to fill in Moulton's Point, which is now known as the Charlestown Navy Yard. They say the quickest way up this monument is to walk up, and the quickest way down is to fall down!! 
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