Word: concordes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the Ivy League Championship all over again. Except it was no big surprise. The Greater Boston Championship is traditionally Middlesex County's gift to Crimson golfers' egos, and Bicentennial week at Concord is no time to break with tradition...
This week in Boston retired Contractor Dino Di Carlo, 61, will don colonial-style breeches, waistcoat and peruke. Then he will mount a horse and head northwestward through suburban Middlesex County, re-enacting Paul Revere's ride 200 years earlier to warn Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming to seize the colonists' military supplies. Di Carlo's trip will be the first major commemorative event since the U.S. Bicentennial celebration officially began on March 1. It promises to be a gigantic birthday bash that will involve millions of Americans, from the largest cities...
When he arrives in Lexington, by about 1 p.m., he will find that the battle began at 6 a.m. and ended long before he left Boston. On the Lexington Green, residents acting as the British redcoats will have routed neighbors dressed as Minutemen and marched off to participate in Concord's parade to the old North Bridge, the site of the second skirmish. Residents of both Lexington and Concord regard the hordes of tourists-up to 500,000 are expected-as the real enemy and are suitably prepared. There will be 200 portable toilets, 60 lunch stands...
There is even a touch of protest in today's events--the people's Bicentennial Commission, which says it wants to reclaim America from Wall Street, will be holding an all-night vigil in Concord while its parade permit lasts, in a celebration designed to call forth the harsh, indominable revolutionary spirit...
...hard to tell if the People's Commission's effect will be more or less successful than the official cities' ones; from the looks of Lexington and Concord yesterday, the spirit abroad in the land was strictly 1970s...