. Outdoors in New England . 31. on the spot where it was made, through the medium of his-torical pilgrimages. From Boston and the other large New England centers,therefore, thousands of pilgrims—sometimes a majority of thedelegates to a great convention—are constantly traveling tothe many world-famous towns and cities in Massachusetts andelsewhere in which Colonial or Revolutionary history wascreated. Just as thousands of European tourists visit the home ofShakespeare at Stratford-on-Avon, so do thousands of Ameri-can travelers repair to Concord and Lexington, to stand rever-ently upon the spo
. Outdoors in New England . 31. on the spot where it was made, through the medium of his-torical pilgrimages. From Boston and the other large New England centers,therefore, thousands of pilgrims—sometimes a majority of thedelegates to a great convention—are constantly traveling tothe many world-famous towns and cities in Massachusetts andelsewhere in which Colonial or Revolutionary history wascreated. Just as thousands of European tourists visit the home ofShakespeare at Stratford-on-Avon, so do thousands of Ameri-can travelers repair to Concord and Lexington, to stand rever-ently upon the spot where the first struggle in behalf of Ameri-can liberty took place and to gaze on the remaining physicalmementoes of that fateful clash between the Minute Men andthe British soldiers. In Concord, doubly endeared to the American publicthrough its Revolutionary and literary associations, the visitorwill find much that will unfailingly interest and instruct Old North Bridge, its statue of the Minute Man, itsancient W
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