Did anyone else do a double take when reading that a Lexington detective was hit on by a prostitute. In Lexington. Yeah, that's what I'm saying!

One last thing, before I finish for the weekend.

2. I'm taking Gwen (my pup) on future assignments. It seems she's a hit everywhere. People want to hold her, invite her in stores and even give her treats. Thank you to Fancy Flea and Crafty Yankee for inviting her in.

I'm wondering if Gwen is eligible for a Patch Pup Press Pass.

Posted at 5:45 a.m. this morning ...

Yesterday’s mission was to find out how everyone was keeping cool. I waited 'til the rain stopped and then headed to the Center. Temperatures were in the high 90s and you sure did feel it.

The pool was too obvious and probably overcrowded, so I hit Emery Park to find five young adults sitting on a bench under a tree.

Matt Mesh, 18, said he was keeping cool just “sitting in the shade.” His friend Anzel Miller, 21, said a “cool drink” was his preference. Jaine Cipriano, 18, said “going out with wet hair,” which she did earlier in the day. Unfortunately, she said, it was dry and no longer offered any respite.

Carter, a 15-year-old without parental permission for a photograph, was wearing the coolest bright green shades. Next time, Carter.

Kelly Zapata made the best of the day. While waiting for LexPress to take her to Burlington’s air conditioned stores, she sat on a bench eating a sandwich from Avenue Deli and drinking a mango pineapple orange smoothie.  

People were in the Lexington Depot, so I wandered over and found 25 teachers from Arizona's Deer Valley Unified School District finishing their lunch.

The teachers made their way to Lexington through a federal Teaching American History grant, an award that provides one-week of professional development in an historic area with an educational facilitator. The district chose New York’s Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Gilder Lehrman’s Professor Andrew Robertson and two other educators guided the teachers through this portion of Massachusetts.

They arrived last Sunday and leave this Saturday, June 11. I’m not sure what they saw in Boston, but while in Lexington they visited the Battle Green, had lunch inside the Depot, toured Buckman Tavern and the Hancock-Clarke Parsonage, then saw a few other places in and around town. The next stop was Minute Man National Historic Park and the Old North Bridge in Concord. 

They didn’t have time to see the Old Burial Ground here or Author's Ridge in Concord, Deer Valley Director Debbie Peters said. “There’s only so much time in a day," she said.

It sounded as though they were burning the colonial candle at both ends already.

The history teachers, all holding cameras and recording devices, were in Lexington to see history firsthand. One teacher said students devour historic information when they know the teacher has seen or been there.

After talking to them for a while, it was clear these southwestern history teachers knew Lexington history – and I’m sure they already teach it well. Now they can go home with pictures and a renewed interest in our history.