| Elm Brook tactical demo is 11.30 at Hartwell house.
Parker’s Revenge demo is around 1 pm near NP center. Lynne Smith 5 Tabor Hill Road Lincoln, MA 01773 781-258-1175 Sent from my iPhone The 5am Lexington demonstration is at 1 Bedford st, Lexington.
Can anyone tell us where on the Battle Road we should go to witness the Tactical Demo .Diana Smith
Thank you, Don. This helps me decide to focus on one of the Tactical Demonstrations.
Dear Lynne,
A good question. These are “tactical demonstrations,” not re-enactments. There are several reasons for making the distinction. For one, although we know generally how events unfolded on April 19th, we do not know them in the degree of detail that would be
important to presenting them as historical replicas. For another, men on both sides died that day on this ground, and depicting that in a "re-enactment” for theatrical purposes might seem disrespectful. Not least, in order to make this an event safe for
visitors (and re-enactors), we need to assure safe separations among visitors and participants, and that means the movement of re-enactors cannot necessarily be identical to what we know probably happened.
All that said, what visitors will see, hear, and smell from swirls of drifting gun smoke will be as close to contemporary accounts of the events as we can safely manage. Visitors will be enveloped in the events, just as the residents of Lincoln would have
been on the historic day.
I might note there will be over 800 British soldiers, American militia and minute men, and fleeing citizens taking part in the drama tomorrow. An event not to be missed.
Don Hafner
The Lincoln Minute Men
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