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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 10351642, member: 6444&quot;]Just to take this topic into the weeds a bit, a bit of trivia known to anyone who lives or has lived in Concord and Lexington. Emerson was a life long resident of Concord, and his 1837 poem commemorating the shot at the rude bridge was about a gunshot that occurred in Concord, not Lexington. And Daniel Chester French, also a resident of Concord, was commissioned to do the 1874 bronze statue of a minuteman that stands at the bridge (old north bridge) now.</p><p><br /></p><p>So a Concordian would say that a spoon commemorating the shot heard round the world should say Concord on it, and not Lexington. Of course a Lexingtonian would emphatically beg to differ, countering that guns were fired on their green as well, and that they have their own 1900 minuteman statue (later, and not by French). But such is history.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just in case you detect any bias, this history brought to you by a member of the re-established Concord Minutemen, who had a great day yesterday dressed in Revolutionary attire, playing in a fife and drum corps in the annual Patriots day parade and celebrations afterwards.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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