Patriots Day I Spy
On April 5th, we assembled nearly 100,000 people at Boston Common and City Hall Plaza from all over the state.
But the political will of Massachusetts doesn’t end at Boston city limits, and the revolutionary history of our state isn’t restricted to Lexington and Concord. It’ll take the whole country coming together to protect against authoritarianism, and for us in Massachusetts, that means we need the whole state mobilized. Thankfully, we have a rich history of revolution to draw on—and this Patriots Day, we’re challenging you to seek out that history in your town.
On April 16, 1775, the revolutionary paper The Massachusetts Spy relocated its headquarters from Boston to Worcester. In commemoration, we’d like to play an I Spy game with some of our local landmarks—do you know these landmarks?
Click here for a list of monuments and landmarks!
Check out the map for approximate locations!
If you recognize these landmarks and live in these areas, go out and see if you can find them! Send your answers to newsletter@mass50501.com, along with a photo if you’d like and any other information you know about this place you think would be interesting to others. And we’d love to learn about more places like this, too! So, if you have landmarks in your town, we’re asking you to seek them out and tell us about them.
Go out to a local protest this weekend if you can, but don’t stop there. Learn about the revolutionary history of your area—and then come back and teach us. Go out to the landmarks you find, bring a neighbor—or maybe you’ll meet one there! Take a picture and send it to us. Tell us a little about the landmark and the events that happened there. We’ll compile all the landmarks we find and send them back out to everyone in the next newsletter—and we’ll all have a little more history in our brains to inspire us as we continue the fight.
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