245 years ago

[1gewehr]

Farmers and tradesmen in small towns north of Boston faced off against the world's best soldiers who were sent to confiscate a couple of small cannons and other weapons.

The movie 'April Morning' is worth watching, if you can find it.

[RED333]

Amazon has it, will check it out latter, thanks much!

[AuEagle]

[Dirtshooter]

Yes on that day 89 men fro 23 towns in Massachusetts were killed or wounded in Concord. By the next morning Massachusetts had 12 regiments in the field. Within 1 week 16,000 men from 4 New England colonies formed a siege outside British occupied Boston. The British thought every able-bodied male had become a soldier.

[btq96r]

Patriots' Day is still a celebrated holiday in the Boston area.  The Boston Marathon is traditionally run on the Monday closest to it, and that day, the Red Sox have a home game if the weather is nice.  It used to end (if it didn't go extra innings) at a time to let the fans out in time to cheer the marathon runners at that point in the route.  Not sure why that stopped.  Obviously those things won't be happening this year, and that's a shame.

[RED333]

On 4/19/2020 at 7:25 AM, 1gewehr said:

The movie 'April Morning' is worth watching, if you can find it.

Thanks for recommending the movie, good show.

[peejman]

15 minutes ago, RED333 said:

Thanks for recommending the movie, good show.

We watched it last night too.