Sunday afternoon, we decided to join the other trespassers (thanks to the government shutdown!) and head to Minute Man Park in Concord, Massachusetts. Elijah's favorite pre-trip materials were our Revolutionary War books plus the Liberty Kids tv episodes; he was excited to actually get to go to Concord! We walked part of the trail that takes you to different points in the Battle of Concord.
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| Elijah and his guns |
We, sadly, didn't have time to explore Concord's famous literary heritage (Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Alcott, and others, all lived here in the mid-1800s, trading houses and ideas--an amazing wealth of literary greats in a small town). We drove past the homes, but it was too late in the day to tour any.
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| The Alcott family home, where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set "Little Women" |
Then we found the Old North Bridge (in the fading light with little signage, Dustin and I thought we were looking for a covered bridge--thankfully we had our resident Battle of Lexington and Concord expert to inform us that it was not a covered bridge and to provide lots of other information about the significance of the bridge).
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| Old North Bridge |
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| In front of the Minute Man statue |
Dinner was at a little restaurant in Concord with delicious homemade ice cream, and then it was onto Plymouth to spend the night.
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