Patriots Day

Cool riders, hot runners

adamg — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:11:15 +0000

Mikesssss photographed the annual midnight bike ride along the Marathon route. Later, Photographynatalia photographed some of the ~~survivors~~ runners:

Patriots Day in Concord, 2012

adamg — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:11:52 +0000

Huzzah, we win!

adamg — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:06:54 +0000

Grenadiers fall back

Late reports from Concord have the Redcoats retreating in disarray toward the center of town after a rout at the North Bridge by hastily assembled Minutemen. Some photos.

Huzzah, they win!

adamg — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:01:47 +0000

Paul Keleher watched the Marathon near the Newton/Wellesley line. He captured both the women's leaders (winner Sharon Cherop was fifth at that point) and the men (winner Wesley Korir was fourth):

Wonder if they had any takers?

adamg — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:27:13 +0000

Nathanael Hevelone captured a pair of demotivators along the Marathon route today.

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Putting the patriots in Patriots Day

adamg — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:06:25 +0000

Minutemen, members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. a few politicians and some bystanders marched from City Hall to the North End today to commemorate the rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes. The procession stopped at Dawes's grave at King's Chapel Cemetery and at Revere's grave at the Granary Burying Ground, to present a wreath and play taps, before continuing down Bromfield, Washington and Congress streets and then down Hanover into the North End, where a modern-day Paul Revere waited on a horse so that he could take off towards Lexington to warn the colonials.

Another rout today

adamg — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:48:08 +0000

Redcoats, that is, not Red Sox:

Greg Cook has more photos from today's annual recreation of the Battle of Old North Bridge.

The fog of war

adamg — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:13:50 +0000

Greg Cook rose early today to take in the Patriots Day battle re-enactments in Lexington and Concord.

A member of my tribe runs the Marathon

adamg — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:02:35 +0000

Yeah, sure, most of the people running the Marathon today had your basic boring running outfits on. But then there were the outliers, like the Cat in the Hat and Minnie Mouse (safely separated by a couple miles):

How to celebrate the true meaning of Patriots Day

adamg — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:00:51 +0000

J.L. Bell runs down Revolutionary events in the area this weekend.

Patriots Day in Boston

adamg — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:27:28 +0000

A classic photo.

The Marathon in Brookline

adamg — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:15:19 +0000

Patriot and Redcoat run the Marathon. And yes, she got all the way to Brookline holding a hobby horse.

Presidents' Day was a couple months ago, Abe:

That's a lot of runners on Beacon Street:

Villainy at Menotomy: Patriots die at hands of regulars

adamg — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:13:08 +0000

Furore as Redcoat stabs, beats Jason Russell to death in front of his own home this very afternoon.

Reports reach us that chastened regulars beating a slow retreat from their whupping at North Bridge in Concord this morning set upon the citizens of Menotomy, attempting to ransack and burn down houses in the village as brave patriots assembled at Jason Russell's house to try to stop them.

Attacked from two sides, the Patriots fell victim to His Majesty's Loathsome Musketballs and Swords:

Shouting and huzzaing

adamg — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:05:12 +0000

J.L. Bell posts a deposition from Edward Thoroton Gould, a lieutenant in His Majesty's 4th Regiment of Foot who was on the front line at the Battle at the Old North Bridge.

... On our arrival at that place, we saw a body of provincial troops, armed, to the number of about sixty or seventy men. On our approach, they dispersed, and soon after firing began, but which party fired first I can not exactly say, as our troops rushed on shouting and huzzaing previous to the firing, which was continued by our troops so long as any of the provincials were to be seen. ...

Father Austin Fleming, who lives in Concord, reports:

Just after midnight tonight I'll hear a fife and drum corps marching down Main Street to the green in Monument Square, where I live.

Only in Concord, Massachusetts might a parade pass by your home at midnight! ...

Marathon legend could run Marathon again

adamg — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:32:57 +0000

If it's cool, look for Bill Rodgers.