Journalist and Writer
On a day dedicated to remembering a cataclysmic demonstration of throwing off oppressive rule, Patriots Day visitors to the North Bridge and surrounds followed in the footsteps of the town’s forebears with protests of their own.
Some moments mark a generation. Many of us grew up seeing images of the civil rights movement and Vietnam protests, but those are distant stories we are disconnected from. This week, however, we were thrust into it ourselves.