Vacation Day 2.... Shot heard 'round the world

We spent a great, albeit rainy day, Monday wandering around Concord Massachusetts looking at more amazing sites. We went to the Old North Bridge, famous for where the Revolutionary War started [see saying in title] we went to the Concord Museum and saw, amoung other things, one of the laterns used by Paul Revere in the North Church [one if by land two if by sea].

We also visited the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery which was very cool. In the Author's Ridge you can find the graves of Nathanial Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Enjoy the pictures.

I love this picture that looks across the North Bridge. Here I am on the British side. Although the Malitia were British subjects I kept referring to them as Americans, which they weren't...yet

 Saying at base of above statue

Minute Man Statue on the "American" side of the bridge

Concord River

Next stop, Concord Museum. Very nice and the first place we had to pay to see [price reasonable] and contains one of the two laterns used by Paul Revere to signals the British coming.

Revolutionary Muskets

Nathanial Hawthorne

Louisa May Alcott

Henry David Thoreau

I was impressed with the mostly unassuming gravestones. There were family markers with the family name. Notice the stones on and around the gravestone. Many were marked this way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A view looking down from Author's Ridge.

Don't know who's graves these were but liked how they were all in a nice neat row.

How creepy is this stone with the hand reaching out.

The girls tried this tri-corners on at one of the gift shops.

And last but not least...dinner in the room that night.

I hope you enjoyed.