Patriots' Day

I have talked with a couple of people today who knowing I had lived in Boston asked me what patriot's day is.  I forget it is only a holiday in Massachusetts and Maine which was once part of Massachusetts.. Patriots' Day is a celebration of beginning of the American Revolution. The day isn't of course on the very day of the start of the revolutionary war but it is damned close.

In the early morning in Lexington and Concord re-enactors are on the Lexington Green and on Old North Bridge in Concord in full revolutionary gear. Later in the day another group of re-enactors replay the ride of Paul Revere. It is now a state holiday with sporting events and of course the Boston Marathon which starts in Hopkinton a small town outside of the city and finishing in the Back Bay neighborhood.