Quote Originally Posted by DebW View Post
It's Patriots Day in Massachusetts. Revolutionary battle re-enactments. Not to mention the Boston Marathon.
ah yes... Patriots Day- Good times, good times. We used to re enact in the battle road engagement going from Concord to Lexington by being one of the local farmers family who would follow the battle, drag off the "corpses" so that they could resurrect as new personae and run off to get ahead of the battle so that they could die dramatically again, preferably in the town square in Lexington.

This was always followed or preceded by a day spent being a colonial lacemaker (with sag guy as a colonial weaver) at the Battle Road museum in Concord right there by the bridge where it all started.

The kids usually did the big scout campout/ camporee and did the whole re enactment march/ placing of wreaths on the monuments through Acton, Boxborough, Stow and Concord and then raced back home to march and play with the ABRHS band in the Patriots Day Parade.

Unless you live in the area, you really don't get how involved everyone is in the day.