It’s Patriots Day. Actually, it should be April 19, but everything gets celebrated on Mondays now.
Concord is ready for its parade. In front of the library, the Boston Children’s Museum has posted the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere on wooden stakes. The grandstand is set up for the dignitaries. The vendors are out in force.
I picture Paul Revere coming back for the celebrations and wondering if his ride was for the freedom to buy cotton candy, fried dough, and Sponge Bob Square Pants balloons on a stick.
Kind of like the hobbits who had all the wild adventures coming home and being a bit nonplussed by the pedestrian preoccupations of Hobbiton.
Actually, I think the adventurers did think they had fought for the freedom to have pedestrian preoccupations.
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What a great idea to have the poem on a series of signs. I hope they got the parade and renactment in before the rains. I love the bottom shot – nicely done. Cheers
The horse seemed a little like “Whatever!”