Redmen traditionalists say the name is part of town history and refers to red athletic jerseys, not the Native Americans who settled in this Boston suburb in the 1600s.Native Americans moving to the Boston suburbs in the 17th century? Red flight? Were they forced out by the Puritans? Driven out by the high wampum downtown real estate? Or is this just another Globe cow pie in print?
Tell me more, please.
UPDATE: Reader Adam Gaffin also choked on this Globe story, but knows more Natick history and gives it here (no courteous hat tip, Adam?).
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For your edification: It is Adam GAFFIN.
By the way, I really liked your latest comment over at Dan Kennedy's place. "Objective journalism" has pretty much become an oxymoron.
Hat tipped (belatedly).
I knew those 18 months covering Natick for the Middlesex News would come in useful someday. ...
-- Adam
No worries. Just needling you, Adam. I really did wonder what was the source of all those fingertip facts concerning Natick.
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