Boston Tour is now leaving for Concord Part One

Concord Massachewitts...The start of our nation's

revolution...The shot heard round the world...Paul Revere.......It all happened here...right in our little state of Massachewsitts..PL1+2 and Archie and I decided to go to Concord.We love it there as it is a beautiful town,chock full of political and literary history which we all love( and they have great farm stands too.....) Now this will be in two parts..Part One the History Part two the literary...
Here is a map depicting where it all happened....

And here is the entrance to the North Bridge where the American Revolution started.......

If you can biggify this it will tell you about the bridge..

I was reading it but then thought I heard cannon fire so I had to duck under...

Here it is THE BRIDGE where on 19 April 1775 the American Minutemen tried to stop the British from finding their hidden ammunition ..... This is considered the beginning of the American Revolution (or the War of American Secession, as some of our British friends call it, right Eric?)

The statue of the Minuteman by Daniel Chester French

It has a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "By the rude bridge that arched the flood,/ Their flags to the April breeze unfurled,/ Here once the embattled farmers stood,/ And fired the shot heard round the world!'

Archie thought it must have been a very big gun to be heard around the world!

The Bridge still spans the beautiful Concord River....

but instead of Minutemen, there are artists.....



And canoe-ists......

This is the quiet heard round the world!

Archie said he was getting a little confused...

He said he didn't know which side he should be on as he is British by descent but he lives in America....He refused to read this sign..

And he paid his respects by the graves of the British soldiers who fell here....

Here we are on the other side of the Bridge..

So pretty and peaceful..except for my brother who kept yapping on and on...

He made me so crazy with all his bantering I threw myself down to roach but couldn't....Which side should we be on??? Pl1+2 said we didn't have to choose sides..It was history... and this was just teaching us about what happened....

Then he told me that he was SURE he heard canon fire........

Directly next door to the Bridge is a beautiful famous house.....

Two very famous people Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne lived here, but not together.......



This is a garden that Henry David Thoreau made for Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, Sophia, as a wedding present, and no, Archie, it is not the original plants and no you cannot eat them!

Can you see the double-decker bird house??

Then we went down the road into the main area of Concord.This hotel The Colonial Inn says that it has two haunted rooms and people LOVE to stay in these rooms and some have seen the ghosts!!(Archie said he is pretty sure that there would be no way, no how he would stay there. In fact we had to walk on the other side of the road..)

While we were walking we decided that we were hungry and Arch found this place..(actually all he really saw was the ICE CREAM)

So we went down this little alley..

And we waited with PL2 while PL1 went to get us PIZZA.....

I told Arch not to get so excited and sit patiently like I was...

Then I told him to sit under the table and act as if nothing out of the ordinary was happening....

Only I was too excited thinking about the pizza to do that...



SO we all had our pizzas(some of us did not have quite as much as we would have liked) and we were walking on...and Archie starting yapping again about which side should he be on..... and he saw this sign of a minuteman...

And he was feeling very contrary and rebellious... and ..well you can guess what he did next........Let's just say the sign got a little wet....

And on the way home we did stop at a farm stand and got blueberries and raspberries and practically ate all of them before we got home!!! Now part two we will show you some famous literary sites in Concord!!!