With the rank of captain, he led a Massachusetts militia force — which has at times been erroneously identified as Minutemen — in a fateful engagement. Parker had served as a soldier in the ...

“He’s a Massachusetts man of the people ... Reform or die. Kathleen Parker is a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group. Readers may e-mail her at|kathleenparker@ ...

BOSTON — Robert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive and modernize the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his “Spenser” series ...

Ben was born Feb. 27, 1925 in Lowell, MA, a son of the late Arthur Benjamin Parker, Sr. and Ruth (D’Mooers) Parker. Mr. Parker attended the Morey School, and the Lowell High school. He graduated ...