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Could these venerable arches speak, what stories could they not tell,--sometimes of victory and sometimes of defeat, sometimes of gladness and sometimes of mourning, sometimes of hope and sometimes of fear!
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Sumner imagines the stories that the historic arches of Faneuil Hall could tell about the nation's struggles and triumphs.
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