Brendan M. watched the Marathon at Ashland State Park this morning.
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Patriots Day
By adamg - 4/17/17 - 10:19 am
— Mike (@mjvulch) April 17, 2017
Mike watched those jets that flew overhead shortly before 10 a.m.
By adamg - 4/16/17 - 10:25 am
J.L. Bell recounts the tale of the Wrentham Minutemen. Oh, they saw plenty of action - at local taverns - before finally marching up to West Roxbury, where they found a tory and took him to a patriot tavern at Centre and Allandale to figure out what to do with him (and then Bell leaves us hanging for tomorrow's account).
By adamg - 4/18/16 - 12:30 pm
Matthew Calvin watched the runners come pass Mile 23 in Washington Square.
By adamg - 4/18/16 - 11:37 am
Jean Nagy captured the Richard family with Tatyana McFadden, the winner of the Marathon women's wheelchair race.
By adamg - 4/18/16 - 10:35 am
J.L. Bell brings us an account of the fighting at the Old North Bridge by Amos Baker of Lincoln:
There were two British soldiers killed at the bridge. I saw them when I went over the bridge, lying close together, side by side, dead.
Joshua Brooks, of Lincoln, was at the bridge and was struck with a ball that cut through his hat, and drew blood on his forehead, and it looked as if it was cut with a knife; and we concluded they were firing jackknives.
By adamg - 4/18/16 - 8:35 am
Tracey Staedter inspected the barricades along the Marathon route this morning.
Meanwhile, the city alerts us:
Meters are free and time limits are not in effect, but all other parking rules remain in effect.
By adamg - 4/20/15 - 5:08 pm
Patty Neal reports these Minutemen were having trouble finding a cab today.
By adamg - 4/21/14 - 12:14 pm
In 1939, three years after he had bested local favorite Johnny Kelly - barefoot, and with a burst of speed at the top of what is now Heartbreak Hill - Ellison "Tarzan" Jones won his second Boston Marathon.
Leslie Jones photo from the BPL Marathon collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
By adamg - 4/21/14 - 11:22 am
Paul Revere gets all the glory, but William Dawes also rode into the countryside that fateful April night to warn the colonists that the Redcoats were coming.
This morning, the National Lancers re-created Dawes' ride from the First Church in Roxbury in Eliot Square.
Reading a poem about Dawes on the front steps of the church:
By adamg - 4/18/14 - 7:42 pm
Starting at 8, the Paul Revere House will be "livetweeting" Paul Revere's ride.
Alas, poor Dawes, never gets as much credit.
Welcome to Dot suggests:
RT if by land, Favorite if by sea.
Via Beta Boston.
By adamg - 4/18/14 - 10:16 am
J.L. Bell fires grapeshot at the notion that the Battle of Lexington supposedly started with a verbal volley in which a Redcoat commander demanded the Minutemen put down their arms in the name of George III, the sovereign king of England and a minster retorted that "We recognize no Sovereign but God and no King but Jesus."
Besides the fact that none of the dozens of participants in the battle who wrote down their recollections of it ever mentioned the alleged exchange, the minister who allegedly made the retort wasn't even on the Lexington Common that morning.
By adamg - 4/12/14 - 6:02 pm
William Evans discusses Marathon preparation at City Hall.
Boston officials today outlined some of their security measures for the April 21 Marathon that include road closings, more cameras and police and more cots and emergency personnel for the larger number of runners expected.
"Our goal is to make it a safe family day," Police Commissioner William Evans said. "I'm very confident we're going to have a great day."
By adamg - 4/12/14 - 10:41 am
Calendar of Patriots Day events - some this weekend. The list is, however, missing the annual re-enactment of the rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes.
By adamg - 3/11/14 - 7:42 am
Also, no baby strollers along the route. Bring stuff in clear plastic bags.
Meanwhile, some Watertown residents want better answers on the search for the Tsarnaevs after last year's bombings.
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