[rlmorel]

The Concord Museum is only a short distance from me, and when I went in there last year, I saw this:

I was one of the actual lanterns which was used on that night of April 18th, 1775 to communicate to Patriots in Charlestown whether the British were going to march over the thin strip of land out of Boston, or row across the water to Charlestown to begin their campaign. (The lanterns were a "backup" communication in case Paul Revere and William Hawes were held up or arrested leaving Boston, IIRC)

When I saw that lamp, the feeling of real history flooded into me, as if the act of visualizing the real lamp used made a connection back to that time and validated that it really did happen!

[1Old Pro]

Back in a time when Patriots wanted to build a better country FOR the people. Now we have bloated government awash with over taxed taxpayer money and a one party system like a monarchy, the uni-party that spends spends spends.