The town is advising people who think they can just run 26 miles on their own without any road closings, water and first-aid stations or police in the middle of a frickin' pandemic that they seriously need to reevaluate their thinking.
Patriots Day
By adamg - 4/12/20 - 12:32 pm
Not this year.
J.L. Bell lists ways local historical groups are putting together ways to celebrate the historical part of Patriots Day online this year.
By Ron Newman - 3/30/20 - 5:28 am
The page content will not surprise anyone, yet the headline is still painful to read on the Town of Lexington's website:
Patriots' Day 2020 Has Been Cancelled
That means no Paul Revere's ride, no battle re-enactments, no pancake breakfasts, no parades, no fifes and drums, no vigils, no Dawn Salute at the rude bridge in Concord -- none of it.
By adamg - 4/16/19 - 9:45 pm
Boston EMS Lt. Tony O'Brien worked Copley Square yesterday. He reports there were so many inspirational people yesterday, including the guy who crawled across the finish line, but this guy may have been the most inspirational: Read more.
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By adamg - 4/15/19 - 9:14 am
NorthEndWaterfront.com has photos from last night's Lantern Ceremony at Old North Church. Sara Cuthbertson got up early to watch the battle on Lexington Green.
By adamg - 4/8/19 - 11:50 am
Here's your chance to take that trip to Fitchburg you've been dying to do: On Patriots Day, you'll be able to ride anywhere commuter rail goes for $15 for the whole day. The "Marathon Pass" is available starting today on the mTicket app and starting Wednesday at ticket offices at North South and Back Bay stations. Don't worry about missing out - the pass will also be available on the trains themselves on April 15. Read more.
By adamg - 4/16/18 - 11:28 pm
Matt Calvin watched men's winner Yuki Kawauchi glide by on Beacon Street in Brookline today.
Lots of Marathon photos by Photographynatalia.
By adamg - 4/16/18 - 9:18 am
NorthEndWaterfront.com has video of the annual lighting of the lanterns (two if by sea and all) in Old North Church.
By adamg - 4/12/18 - 10:31 am
Scott Wholey watched workers paint the finish line for the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street.
By adamg - 4/17/17 - 11:33 am
Our own Ron Newman got up early this morning to take in the annual Battle of Lexington reenactment.
By adamg - 4/17/17 - 10:51 am
Paula Tennyson watched police and cadets assemble for Marathon duty near Mass. Ave. around 8:30 a.m.
By adamg - 4/17/17 - 10:19 am
— Mike (@mjvulch) April 17, 2017
Mike watched those jets that flew overhead shortly before 10 a.m.
By adamg - 4/16/17 - 10:25 am
J.L. Bell recounts the tale of the Wrentham Minutemen. Oh, they saw plenty of action - at local taverns - before finally marching up to West Roxbury, where they found a tory and took him to a patriot tavern at Centre and Allandale to figure out what to do with him (and then Bell leaves us hanging for tomorrow's account).
By adamg - 4/18/16 - 12:30 pm
Matthew Calvin watched the runners come pass Mile 23 in Washington Square.
By adamg - 4/18/16 - 11:37 am
Jean Nagy captured the Richard family with Tatyana McFadden, the winner of the Marathon women's wheelchair race.
By adamg - 4/18/16 - 10:35 am
J.L. Bell brings us an account of the fighting at the Old North Bridge by Amos Baker of Lincoln:
There were two British soldiers killed at the bridge. I saw them when I went over the bridge, lying close together, side by side, dead.
Joshua Brooks, of Lincoln, was at the bridge and was struck with a ball that cut through his hat, and drew blood on his forehead, and it looked as if it was cut with a knife; and we concluded they were firing jackknives.
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