{"id":9921,"date":"2010-06-17T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T07:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=9921"},"modified":"2010-06-17T02:27:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T18:27:47","slug":"bunker-hill-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/17\/bunker-hill-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunker Hill Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was a little upset at the weather on Saturday afternoon to have stopped me from completing The Freedom Trail. On the next day \u2013 Sunday \u2013 after visiting Trinity Church and I felt my feet could still handle an hour or two more of walking, I headed to Bunker Hill ostensibly to complete the Trail. And as it turned out \u2013 surprisingly \u2013 that I had to complete the last segment of the Trail on a different day was the best thing to have happened in this trip so far. <\/p>\n

As luck would have it: that very Sunday afternoon was when the community was having their Bunker Hill Day Parade commemorating June 14th, and 235th Anniversary of the Revolutionary War Battle!<\/p>\n

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The parade saw 1,500 participants and didn\u2019t just comprise reenacting contingents from that period: there were also representation from the last World War, with veterans parading with them too:<\/p>\n

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And every now and then, one of the period contingents would stop, and fire off a volley with their rifles, complete with instructions commanded to them by their leading reenacting officer \u2013 much to the delight of onlookers. Like this bunch below: which fired off a volley right in front of me and sent my ears ringing for several minutes.:)<\/p>\n

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And just about to fire:<\/p>\n

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I didn\u2019t get a picture of the rifles firing off at that exact moment, but got it on video. See the next post.:)<\/p>\n

I ran with the parade, and must have taken several hundred pictures \u2013 totally exhausting the D300 battery. It might had been a funny sight for the locals too: it was a largely local town affair with very few tourists in sight \u2013 and there was this obviously Asian guy with a DSLR in one hand and a HD Videocam in the other, running with the parade like an event photographer.:)<\/p>\n

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It was a terrifically colorful and warm affair. Many of the townsfolk knew the parade participants, so there was plenty of waving, cheering on their friends.<\/p>\n

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The contingents occasionally stopped to give some separation space from one to the next. Several looked at me curiously: I\u2019m assuming they don\u2019t get to see many Asian tourists wielding large DLSRs and backpacks running after them and shooting them on drive mode.:)<\/p>\n

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And what parade would be complete without belly-dancing girls..?! :)<\/p>\n

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The county sheriffs following the parade and ensuring traffic security:<\/p>\n

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Vote for Tim Flaherty.:)<\/p>\n

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The parade was going up towards the Bunker Hill Monument. More on it plus videos in the next post.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was a little upset at the weather on Saturday afternoon to have stopped me from completing The Freedom Trail. On the next day \u2013 Sunday \u2013 after visiting Trinity Church and I felt my feet could still handle an<\/p>\n

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