I grew up in North Oxford, Massachusetts - the birthplace of Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, the "Angel of the Battlefield," and other myriad accomplishments.

When you grow up down the street from Clara Barton birthplace, your schoolbus travels down Clara Barton Road, and you go to Clara Barton Elementary School, you grow up thinking she's one of the most famous women ever.

Oxford was the settling place for Huguenots - Protestants thrown out of Catholic France. It was "established" three times - first two settlements were wiped out by the Nipmuc (Native Americans).

Oxford was the birthplace of Elliott Joslin, a pioneering doctor in the treatment of diabetes.

These days, it's where Dad lives. No food landmarks, um - there's a big flood control project, where on many years you can tell how wet the winter was by how soon the water retreats from the pitcher's mound of the baseball field ...