Cyrus E Dallin School
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Cyrus E Dallin
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Dallin H Oaks
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They decided (over fairly strenuous neighborhood objections—I even got interviewed on TV as part of the protest) to “Lock the Locke,” a block away from Timbaloo on Appleton Street, and thereby to transmute our offspring from Locke kids into Dallin kids and to give them a half-mile walk over a hill to school. The old building became condos and ceased to honor the memory of Captain Benjamin Locke, leader of the Menotomy Minute Men on the 19th of April in ’75, whose house still stands, a couple of blocks in the other direction.
I’ve been told, and I’ve told many, that that house’s front door is the only survivor of those that Paul Revere knocked on, softly, in the night. He didn’t yell that the British were coming: he was British! He warned them, and not the Tories next door, that “the Regulars are out!”
But there’s nothing shameful about the name our young’uns received in their new school: Cyrus Edwin Dallin was a great sculptor and spent most of his adult life in a home only a couple of blocks from Timbaloo.

While parked in front of that home as a tour guide, I had occasion to ask Dallin H Oaks, a high-ranking leader of the Church to which I belong, whether he and our neighbor Cyrus were kin. He replied, “Well, sorta. My mother was pregnant with me when she went to Temple Square in Salt Lake City to see Dallin unveil a statue. And she was so impressed with him that she gave me the name!”
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