Corporal Donald L. Curtis Memorial

Newmarket, NH

This memorial in Newmarket, New Hampshire honors Corporal Robert F. White, a United States Marine from the town who was killed in Vietnam on August 17, 1967, at the age of 27. He served during one of the war's most intense years, when American troop levels in Vietnam were climbing past 400,000 and combat losses were mounting across the country's provinces. Small New England mill towns like Newmarket felt these losses personally, and the community set this marker so that a native son's name would remain part of the place he came from.

Boston, MA

This plaque honors Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr., the Cambridge-born son of Boston's Irish Catholic community who rose to become one of the most powerful figures in 20th-century American politics. A New Deal Democrat, he served for decades in the U.S. House of Representatives and held the Speaker's gavel from 1977 to 1987, sparring famously with the Reagan White House while defending Great Society social programs. He is perhaps best remembered for the maxim that came to define his craft: "all politics is local."

Boston, MA

In the early 1950s, Boston's Back Bay was home to a remarkable pair of young students: a Georgia-born theology doctoral candidate at Boston University and an Alabama-raised singer training at the New England Conservatory. Their 1952 introduction and the courtship that followed — carried on between rooming houses along Massachusetts Avenue — would join two lives that reshaped a nation. The League of Women for Community Service, where Coretta boarded, was itself a pillar of Black Boston, a reminder that this romance unfolded within a close, striving community.

Lexington, MA

This monument stands in Lexington, Massachusetts, a town whose name is woven into the founding of the nation—yet its message reaches beyond the men who mustered on the town green. Titled after the conviction that "something is being done," it honors the women whose courage and labor shaped their communities even when the official record kept their names in the margins. In the spirit of the town's revolutionary heritage, it insists that boldness and history-making were never the province of one gender alone.