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Patriot's Day is an incredible day in Massachusetts. At dawn, Lexington Common is crowded with spectators for the reenacted approach of the British. After shots are fired and the Redcoats march on to Concord, a parade gives the Americans something to do after enjoying a pancake breakfast. By 10 in the morning, students and businesspeople pour into Fenway Park for a promising game early in the season and then head downtown to cheer on the participants of a certain footrace from Hopkinton into Boston. As the sun sets after a beautiful day, the streets are filled with people...
Patriot's Day marks the April 19, 1775, "shots heard round the world" fired at Lexington and Concord. Ready and armed due to the night rides of William Dawes and the poetically more famous Paul Revere, the Minutemen took aim at British soldiers and pushed Boston and the 13 colonies into...
...start of the successful War of Independence is warmly cheered in Massachusetts and Maine, its former annex, on the third Monday in April, with re-enactments, fairs and a marathon to mark the event. The towns of Lexington and Concord plan their year around Patriot's Day. Even people beyond New England sometimes join in the fun: when Patriot's Day falls on April 15, accountants in New York also cheer, because the federal government allows the taxes of New Yorkers as well as Bay State residents to be filed a day later...
Being from California, all of this was once as new to me as it must sound to you. But I was lucky enough to be here for Patriot's Day as a pre-frosh. My father and I took in the sights from the shots in Lexington to the sea of mylar heat blankets that marked the finish line at Copley. My favorite Boston memory is walking to Kenmore Square from Fenway in time to see the camera truck zoom by, inches in front of Moses Tanui, one mile and 385 yards from victory...
Neighbors knew little about the couple after their return to Lexington, except that they rarely left the house and, when they did, were usually wrapped head to toe. Gayl communicated with her editors via E-mail. Ironically, her last book, The Healing, is filled with humor and has a happy ending. Unfortunately, life doesn't always imitate...