Suburban shoppers who park their cars in the garage adjacent to Burlington Town Center and stroll along the featureless concrete wall toward the lake might be forgiven for not realizing that a very different scene existed here nearly half a century ago.

Before the wrecking ball began to swing as part of a massive urban renewal project in the mid-'60s, this was a neighborhood of clapboard homes where children ran in and out of unlocked doors, where grown-ups shared glasses of homemade wine at the kitchen table, where a sense of common identity ran deep.

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