250th Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord coming up...

Bluemoon1 said:
Bring a step ladder so you can see what is going on,put your kids up near the top or they won’t be able to see a thing.My kids loved it (not) waking up at dawn to watch it in Lexington but now they appreciate it.Set them up early so they understand where thier freedom came from,30 years later they still understand.
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The commies won't let you bring ladders anymore.
 
Anyone here familiar with the area? If we wanted to kayak on the river to the North Bridge, where would we park and put in?

Would be fun to float by the bridge, and have a sign right in the thick of it, saying "This is all about fighting Massachusetts' GUN CONTROL!". Thinking a painted sheet would be most "water portable".
 
Heard Toby from the Cape on WTAG again. He was talking about a speech at the statue, a banquet at some hotel with shipped in speakers, and so on. Kind of mild on this hallowed ground, where past patriots gave their lives for this same reason!
 
Anyone else (besides ralphs) here 50 years ago? I just remember being tortured on the hill, having to endure Holly Near the night before (Arlo and Pete Seeger and Phil Oakes performed there too). I think the kids called it the anti-bicentennial celebration.


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Coyote33 said:
Anyone here familiar with the area? If we wanted to kayak on the river to the North Bridge, where would we park and put in?

Would be fun to float by the bridge, and have a sign right in the thick of it, saying "This is all about fighting Massachusetts' GUN CONTROL!". Thinking a painted sheet would be most "water portable".
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Bedford boat launch (right off route 4 Route 225 on the Bedford/ Carlisle line) is about four (water) miles from the North Bridge. Not sure you would be able to get to the boat launch site on Lowell Road in Concord, as it will most likely be within the "circle of safety".
 
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cmcgraw2 said:
Anyone else (besides ralphs) here 50 years ago? I just remember being tortured on the hill, having to endure Holly Near the night before (Arlo and Pete Seeger and Phil Oakes performed there too). I think the kids called it the anti-bicentennial celebration.


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I was there. My buddies and I got there the night of the 18th. We brought a tent and a couple of cases of beer.
 
Lefty38-55 said:
Thanks for pointing it out …

Ohhh, wait a minute … you didn’t at all, did you?
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The number of colonists killed at the North Bridge was 2, not 49.

49 might have the total colonist death-toll for the day including Lexington, Concord, during the return to Boston, Jason Russell house, etc.
 
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jakeroub said:
The number of colonists killed at the North Bridge was 2, not 49.

49 might have the total colonist death-toll for the day including Lexington, Concord, during the return to Boston, Jason Russell house, etc.
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49 was for the whole day, according to the Park Service estimate. Regulars lost 73.
 
For anyone interested, Rick Atkinson's 2nd book in his Revolutionary War trilogy - The Fate of the Day - is coming out on the 29th. I read the first one (The British Are Coming), which covered events through Princeton in 1777, and it was excellent.
 
some group just got to come to this show impersonating UK police to arrest everyone for domestic terrorism and public racism.

it is beyond pathetic to see those stupid shows in this world anymore. they should at least be consistent with their voting preferences and use painted wooden sticks instead of real muskets.
 
paul73 said:
some group just got to come to this show impersonating UK police to arrest everyone for domestic terrorism and public racism.

it is beyond pathetic to see those stupid shows in this world anymore. they should at least be consistent with their voting preferences and use painted wooden sticks instead of real muskets.
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Or better yet, show up as a bunch of modern liberal Karens and start berating the militiamen as nazis, fascists, racists and traitors.
 
ralphs said:
Bedford boat launch (right off route 4 Route 225 on the Bedford/ Carlisle line) is about four (water) miles from the North Bridge. Not sure you would be able to get to the boat launch site on Lowell Road in Concord, as it will most likely be within the "circle of safety".
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That's where we launched from.
We had no problem making it to the bridge and back.
This was the 4th of July a year ago.
Parking has space for about 12 cars.
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not new guy said:
For anyone interested, Rick Atkinson's 2nd book in his Revolutionary War trilogy - The Fate of the Day - is coming out on the 29th. I read the first one (The British Are Coming), which covered events through Princeton in 1777, and it was excellent.
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I'm not sure Atkins is going in his WaPo article...

"It began just after dawn on April 19, 250 years ago, with an abrupt spatter of gunfire in rural Massachusetts that left eight Americans dead on Lexington Common, a bucolic crossroads of 750 people and 400 cows. For the next eight years, an obscure squabble on the edge of the world metastasized into both a civil war of internecine fury and a global conflict fought on four continents and the seven seas. By the end, after 1,300 battlefield actions, plus 241 naval engagements, the British Empire was badly diminished and the new United States of America was ascendant, a fledgling republic with its own imperial ambitions.
The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial five decades ago, it’s an opportunity for both celebration and reflection on who we are, where we came from, what our forebears believed and — perhaps the most fearsome question any people can ask themselves — what they were willing to die for.

Today, the revolution that midwifed a nation seems an ancient, arcane quarrel over taxes, trade policy and self-rule. But even now, certain truths can be discerned across the centuries: that this nation was born from violence, with bitter discord part of that birthright; that high-minded leaders worthy of esteem can rise to the occasion with pluck, wisdom and equanimity; and that regardless of the trials bedeviling us in 2025, when national unity is elusive and when partisan rancor seems ever more venomous, we have surmounted greater perils, existential perils, throughout our history.

Much about the American Revolution has been forgotten or distorted. The nation’s founders often are either embalmed in reverence or condemned for their manifest flaws. Certainly 18th-century revolutionary rhetoric tended to be aspirational, if not delusional. The galvanic assertion that “all men are created equal” hardly held true for half a million enslaved Black people — 1 in 5 of all Americans occupying the 13 colonies when those words were written in 1776. Nor was it valid for women, Native Americans or poor people Throughout the Revolution, Americans still loyal to the British crown, or just skeptical of armed rebellion against their government, were subjected to disenfranchisement, jail, confiscation, torture, exile and even execution.

Yet the American creation story remains pertinent, vivid and exhilarating, a reminder that we are the beneficiaries of an enlightened political heritage handed down to us from that revolutionary generation. The bequest includes a legacy of personal liberty and strictures on how to divide power and prevent it from concentrating in the hands of authoritarians who think primarily of themselves. We cannot let that heritage slip away. We cannot permit it to be taken away. We cannot be oblivious to this priceless gift, or the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have given their lives to affirm and sustain it over the past two and a half centuries."
 
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MaverickNH said:

I'm not sure Atkins is going in his WaPo article...

"It began just after dawn on April 19, 250 years ago, with an abrupt spatter of gunfire in rural Massachusetts that left eight Americans dead on Lexington Common, a bucolic crossroads of 750 people and 400 cows. For the next eight years, an obscure squabble on the edge of the world metastasized into both a civil war of internecine fury and a global conflict fought on four continents and the seven seas. By the end, after 1,300 battlefield actions, plus 241 naval engagements, the British Empire was badly diminished and the new United States of America was ascendant, a fledgling republic with its own imperial ambitions.
The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial five decades ago, it’s an opportunity for both celebration and reflection on who we are, where we came from, what our forebears believed and — perhaps the most fearsome question any people can ask themselves — what they were willing to die for.

Today, the revolution that midwifed a nation seems an ancient, arcane quarrel over taxes, trade policy and self-rule. But even now, certain truths can be discerned across the centuries: that this nation was born from violence, with bitter discord part of that birthright; that high-minded leaders worthy of esteem can rise to the occasion with pluck, wisdom and equanimity; and that regardless of the trials bedeviling us in 2025, when national unity is elusive and when partisan rancor seems ever more venomous, we have surmounted greater perils, existential perils, throughout our history.

Much about the American Revolution has been forgotten or distorted. The nation’s founders often are either embalmed in reverence or condemned for their manifest flaws. Certainly 18th-century revolutionary rhetoric tended to be aspirational, if not delusional. The galvanic assertion that “all men are created equal” hardly held true for half a million enslaved Black people — 1 in 5 of all Americans occupying the 13 colonies when those words were written in 1776. Nor was it valid for women, Native Americans or poor people Throughout the Revolution, Americans still loyal to the British crown, or just skeptical of armed rebellion against their government, were subjected to disenfranchisement, jail, confiscation, torture, exile and even execution.

Yet the American creation story remains pertinent, vivid and exhilarating, a reminder that we are the beneficiaries of an enlightened political heritage handed down to us from that revolutionary generation. The bequest includes a legacy of personal liberty and strictures on how to divide power and prevent it from concentrating in the hands of authoritarians who think primarily of themselves. We cannot let that heritage slip away. We cannot permit it to be taken away. We cannot be oblivious to this priceless gift, or the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have given their lives to affirm and sustain it over the past two and a half centuries."
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he means a senseless gun violence leads to civil wars. do not distort the truth, confiscate guns, prevent violence and needless revolutions.
long live the king, be compliant in your reflection.

a perfect wapo article to commemorate the event.

ps. an 'arcane quarrel over taxes'. like, pay your damn taxes and be happy that you are given such a gift of a privilege.
 
I'm watching the coverage now. We had nothing to worry about with the media ignoring this, lol. The coverage is wall-to-wall; they've got historians on the air explaining everything.

The women are leaving Lexington now. Parker and his dudes are hanging out in the Tavern. Everyone's just waiting for the Regulars. GREAT attendance and good coverage.
 
Picton said:
I'm watching the coverage now. We had nothing to worry about with the media ignoring this, lol. The coverage is wall-to-wall; they've got historians on the air explaining everything.

The women are leaving Lexington now. Parker and his dudes are hanging out in the Tavern. Everyone's just waiting for the Regulars. GREAT attendance and good coverage.
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I would absolutely love to be there today.....but i have issues in crowds. Just can't do it.
 
paul73 said:
he means a senseless gun violence leads to civil wars. do not distort the truth, confiscate guns, prevent violence and needless revolutions.
long live the king, be compliant in your reflection.

a perfect wapo article to commemorate the event.

ps. an 'arcane quarrel over taxes'. like, pay your damn taxes and be happy that you are given such a gift of a privilege.
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Terrible article. They paid a miniscule tax to Britain compared to what we are forced to endure today......and they shot people over it!

The left certainly has to down play that nugget of information.
 
whacko said:
Terrible article. They paid a miniscule tax to Britain compared to what we are forced to endure today......and they shot people over it!

The left certainly has to down play that nugget of information.
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LET ALONE THE WHOLE "ICKY GUNS" THING!
 

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