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Adams family values ; Descendants of two presidents hold dear a legacy intertwined with the nation's past

As a teenager, Rett McKay Adams loved to sit in the chair in which President John Adams died and wear the founding father's glasses. "I had the park rangers sweating," he said of his visits to the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy. "I touched everything."

His father, Peter Adams, 65, seventh in line from John Adams, played with his cousins as a child in the house where John and Abigail Adams once lived, while the adults had their annual meeting. "We would be all dressed up in seersucker suits and jump over the flower beds, roll around the ground, pick apples and throw them at each other and misbehave," he said.

The Adams family will again have their annual meeting in the Old House ...

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