Today's the first Monday in June and that means it was once again time for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, founded in 1638, to hold its annual march through downtown to commemorate its changing of the guard. Read more.
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday dismissed a California man's suit against the Massachusetts Army National Guard for the hearing he lost while walking on the Common just as Guard howitzers erupted in honor of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company's annual June command change in 2015. Read more.
It's the first Monday in June and you know what that means! Yes, time for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company to parade through downtown and the Common, periodically stopping to let Minutemen first muskets into the air and the Army to shoot off some howitzers from the top of the Common. So either rush down to Tremont Street or the Common between 1 and 2 or cover your ears.
Alert the Harvard Business School alumni association: The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company holds its annual leadership change tomorrow, and that means a march around downtown with frequent firing of muskets, with even more musket fire - and cannon fire - on the Common between 1 and 2 p.m. Read more.
Annual ka-booming on the Common (photo from 2016).
A California man who claims he suffered permanent ear damage from one of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company's annual June artillery barrages on the Common wants $20 million in recompense - half from the historic group and half from the National Guard. Read more.
Ted Folkman watched the musketfire downtown as the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company held its annual June procession.
It's just our Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company doing their annual procession.
Like this. Oh, and they might shoot off a cannon or two.
Huzzah! Any lobsterbacks on Tremont trembled in fear this day.
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company held its annual march around downtown as part of its ancient and honorable election of new officers on the first Monday in June.
In addition to Minutemen and current service members, actual members of the artillery company marched, of course: Read more.
This is a confederate flag right? pic.twitter.com/D29Nd2YzEf
— Sarah J. Jackson (@sjjphd) June 1, 2015
Somebody carries a confederate battle flag every year in the parade. Anybody know why?
It's part of the annual first-Monday-in-June change of command for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.
It was just our very own Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, firing rounds and shooting off things to celebrate their election of new officers like they do on the first Monday of every June, even Junes coming a couple months after Marathon explosions.
On the first Monday of every June, the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company elects a new leader, then marches from the Old State House to lay a wreath at the grave of their first captain, Robery Keayne. And that's what there were a bunch of guys in uniforms marching around downtown today.
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