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A Revolutionary War re-enactor portrays patriot William Dawes, who passed through Roxbury to warn the colonists of the advancing British troops.
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Brandeis professor and organist Theodore Johnson prepares to play the church’s recently refurbished 1883 Hook & Hastings organ.
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Roxbury’s Highland Park neighborhood dominates the view south from the church’s steeple.