We're only a short distance from the PX and commissary, and not too far from all the sights of the area.
So, on Saturday 11 August we visited the National Historic Park at Lexington and Concord. 
They have a beautiful multimedia presentation of the battle in the visitors' center to start things off.
This is the famous "Minuteman" statue, memorializing those farmers, shopowners and workers who promised to be ready within a minute, weapons in hand, should they be needed to defend their land. 
After the British met the militia on Lexington Green and someone fired "the shot heard 'round the world", the Redcoats shot into the crowd and killed and wounded several. The militiamen retreated, leaving the British to march on to Concord in search of the weapons hidden there. They found none, of course; early intel had allowed the rebels to move them to safer places. 
They have a beautiful multimedia presentation of the battle in the visitors' center to start things off.
This is the famous "Minuteman" statue, memorializing those farmers, shopowners and workers who promised to be ready within a minute, weapons in hand, should they be needed to defend their land. 
After the British met the militia on Lexington Green and someone fired "the shot heard 'round the world", the Redcoats shot into the crowd and killed and wounded several. The militiamen retreated, leaving the British to march on to Concord in search of the weapons hidden there. They found none, of course; early intel had allowed the rebels to move them to safer places. 
The militia then met the Brits at this bridge and fired upon them, beginning the rout that chased them all the way back to Boston. For a great read, pick up David McCullough's 1776. It's terrific and fun reading! 
We don't know all the nuances of this philosophy/religion, but it pervaded the Congregational churches and there were splits, with the Unitarian churches developing, and later linking up with the Universalist movement. Today, many of these beautiful old parish churches carry a Unitarian-Universalist label.
They are not a Christian organization; in fact, they rarely use that label for themselves. Here's a link for more info if you're interested. I mention it only because so many of the old beautiful Christian churches in New England now carry this banner.
Concord was also the home of later poets and authors, such as Hawthorne, Louisa Mae Alcott, Emerson and Thoreau. They founded the School of Philosophy next to Alcott's home, the beginnings of American Transcendentalism.
We don't know all the nuances of this philosophy/religion, but it pervaded the Congregational churches and there were splits, with the Unitarian churches developing, and later linking up with the Universalist movement. Today, many of these beautiful old parish churches carry a Unitarian-Universalist label.
They are not a Christian organization; in fact, they rarely use that label for themselves. Here's a link for more info if you're interested. I mention it only because so many of the old beautiful Christian churches in New England now carry this banner.Tomorrow: Boston.
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