And we on the opposite shore shall be. I enjoyed this photo from an article that ran in the Globe today called Boston's Secret Places . The photo was taken from the steeple of the Old North Church, looking up Hull St. towards the Zakim Bridge and across the harbor to Charlestown.
The Old North Church is a fantastic place to visit in the North End (great food nearby), but unfortunately visitors are no longer allowed to make the 14 story trek to the top of the steeple. This steeple was the famed site where the church's sexton, Robert Newman, hung two lanterns on the night of April 18, 1775 to alert Paul Revere in Charlestown that the British regulars were crossing the Charles River. From that route, the British troops planned to advance on Lexington and Concord to arrest John Adams and John Hancock and destroy a munitions stockpile. Paul Revere saw the signal and rode through present day Somerville, Arlington, Medford, and Lexington to warn the patriots that "The Regulars are coming out!" The rest is, of course, history.
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