I always enjoyed Patriots Day, April 19th, celebrating the shot heard round the world. The Sudbury Minutemen would start about 6 a.m. at the town center and march to Concord for the reenactment. We'd hear the muskets and fife and drum corps, hurriedly get dressed and get to the corner of our street to watch them march by. There was a British family around the corner on the line of march who would fly the Union Jack. In the summer I would enjoy the Concord Band playing concerts at the Buttrick Mansion in Minuteman Park which looked down on the Old North Bridge. It always gave me goosebumps standing while the band played the Star Spangled Banner overlooking where it had all started and a jet leaving a vapor trial overhead. I'm sure the tradition continues! We, the People, all of us this time!
My home in MA was in Sudbury with the zipcode 01776 next to Concord.
Acton. 01720 on the Concord line. Wife raised her kids in Concord. The "Line of March". We are still marching, eh?
Our best friends live in "Sudsbury" :)
I always enjoyed Patriots Day, April 19th, celebrating the shot heard round the world. The Sudbury Minutemen would start about 6 a.m. at the town center and march to Concord for the reenactment. We'd hear the muskets and fife and drum corps, hurriedly get dressed and get to the corner of our street to watch them march by. There was a British family around the corner on the line of march who would fly the Union Jack. In the summer I would enjoy the Concord Band playing concerts at the Buttrick Mansion in Minuteman Park which looked down on the Old North Bridge. It always gave me goosebumps standing while the band played the Star Spangled Banner overlooking where it had all started and a jet leaving a vapor trial overhead. I'm sure the tradition continues! We, the People, all of us this time!