Happy Patriots’ Day

Happy Patriots Day, America! I’d like to think this day celebrates my beloved football team but it doesn’t. Only Massachusetts and Maine celebrate this holiday but it truly is the birth of our Independence. Without it, we might be taking afternoon “tea breaks,” enjoying Cricket as our national pastime, and be immersed in the dating [...]

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Patriots Day 09

Happy Patriots’ Day to all my fellow Massholes and Maine-iacs. Patriots’ Day is one of my favorite holidays of the year, and it has nothing to do with the fact that my favorite thing in the whole world (New England Patriots) seeing as I am a geeky history buff. I am forever fascinated by the [...]

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Patriots Day

Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark [...]

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