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[rlmorel]

I live a few towns over from Concord and hope to get there.

I will say-attitudes have certainly changed in that town since 1775.

It is full of “Concord Indivisible”, “Hate has no Home Here”, “Support LGBTQ Teens”, and “Black Lives Matter” signs. These days, pretty much a Leftist fever swamp.

[Big Red Badger]

April 19 1775
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Concord and Lexington

[reed13k]

and Tomorrow is the 160th anniversary of Lee’s surrender at Appomatox

[DiogenesLamp]

Battle of Lexington & Concord, 250th Anniversary

The American war of Independence was a time when a collection of slave owning states seceded from a Union, Declared Independence, and formed a confederacy.

They appointed a slave owning General from Virginia to lead their armies against the Union, while the Union offered freedom to their slaves.

Those evil people seceded over slavery.

[Inyo-Mono]

I live several thousand miles away from Concord, but I plan on taking my .62 cal smoothbore flintlock (musket) out and firing a few rounds in honor of the 250th anniversary as I had seven ancestors who fought in the Rev War.

[Ezekiel]

Thanks! PRs Midnight Ride is right up my alley!

The morning of April 19, 1775, on the Lexington town common is place-origin for the phrase,

"No King but Jesus"

It's sketchy lore -- purportedly what Rev. Jonas Clarke hollered at the British, but it is what it is:

On April 18, 1775 John Adams and John Hancock were at the home of Rev. Jonas Clarke, a Lexington pastor and militia leader. That same night Paul Revere arrived to warn them of the approaching Redcoats. The next morning British Major Pitcairn shouted to an assembled regiment of Minutemen; “Disperse, ye villains, lay down your arms in the name of George the Sovereign King of England.” The immediate response of Rev. Jonas Clarke or one of his company was: “We recognize no Sovereign but God and no King but Jesus.”

https://boston1775.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-no-king-but-jesus-myth.html

"The 1737 Lexington Destination":

Full circle, like the radius of the Moon (1737 km):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Stone

Located opposite of (facing) the Ebenezer Hancock House.

These two are the only surviving houses associated with John Hancock, the name synonymous with "signature."

🤔

BTW, the Ebenezer Hancock House has been on the market now for 127 days (listed Dec 2), in case anyone is interested. It's been owned by the same family (Swartz & Swartz) since ~ 1976.

Battle of Lexington & Concord, 250th Anniversary

Funny is that as far as rightful kings are concerned, 4 out of 5 of the anointing oil ingredients are known, but the enduring mystery is what was the 250 shekels of kaneh bosem.

If you consider the "not sold in stores" angle, then the source ingredient for midnight oil ranks right up there.

It's a little something only found along, even or especially just off of the Freedom Trail. After all, if you can't veer off of it, it's not a Freedom Trail.

It's *always* midnight in David's house:

David’s Alarm Clock

The Talmud relates that a lyre hung over David’s bed, and once midnight arrived, the northern wind would come and cause the lyre to play on its own. David would immediately rise from his bed and study Torah until the first rays of dawn.5

What Is the Significance of King David’s Harp?

[sten]

the shot heard around the world was the one that killed Cpt Isaac Davis of the Acton Minutemen.

Acton has been leading the way ever since...

[sten]

An amazing retelling of the events around that fateful day.

April 19th, 1775.

A day that changed the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k6zq_Y_IzA

[Thud]

I was an umpire at a 200th anniversary (1976) recreation of the Battles of Lexington and Concord performed by 1000 San Mateo County, California, high school students. All the British umpires were Marine Corps recruiting sergeants and the American umpires were local volunteers. The British re-enactors had uniforms created by their mothers.

It was a wild success and we all had fun. The scarlet caterpillar deploying from march to line formation was gorgeous.

[fella]

It should be as be a Holiday as the 4th of July.

Our media and DemonRATs hate it because it started with Gun Control and attempted Confiscation.

[9YearLurker]

Get old enough to let 50 years slip by you and it’s amazing to think we’re only 5 of those time periods from before our country’s founding.

[Vermont Lt]

I used to have to go to staff meetings in Arlington, so I drove by these two locations every week. Very nice lplaces. There is no way I would try to get through the traffic to get there next week. It’s a holiday in MA and school vacation week. It’s gonna be nuts!

Have fun. I will catch it on the news. LOL

[EvilCapitalist]

I visited Lexington and Concord in 2019. It was a good trip.

[samadams2000]

Damn. Have fun boys.

[linMcHlp]

Ben Franklin reading the first draft of the Declaration of Independence: . . . "and the purfuit of happineff"

Stan Freberg Presents the United States of American, Volume 1
https://www.garynorth.com/public/1380.cfm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOOQfGWt8Hc

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Same 1960s era:

Vaughn Meeder's The First Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUU1Op9ouBQ

Camp Granada (Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh) (Allan Sherman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XVdgcxDXjo

Peter and the Commissar (Allan Sherman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9tnOWAillk

[Pharmboy]

Thanks for the ping. Continue your great job.