Welcome to Thursday Doors! This is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join us, simply create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week and then share a link to your post in the comments below, anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). If you like, you can add our badge to your post.
Five days from today, those of us in the United States celebrate our independence from the British. OK, OK, I know. A lot of you are reading this from England and other parts of the United Kingdom. Suffice it to say, as countries, we’ve more or less kissed and made up. But, 248 years ago, give or take a month or two, we weren’t exactly ready to be friends on Facebook.
In February 2019, I had a post for Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors where I featured doors from Lexington, Massachusetts. A few weeks ago, I traveled to Massachusetts after a good friend’s wife passed away. The funeral was in Lexington, about three minutes from the Battle Green. I was early, so I walked around the Green. Some of the doors in today’s gallery are repeats from 2019, but the photos are new. Some of the houses haven’t changed since 1675.
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, also called the Shot Heard ‘Round the World, were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge. They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Patriot militias from America’s thirteen colonies.
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You can read more about the battle(s) at the The History Channel. If you prefer a British version, you can find that here. I hope you enjoy the photos in the gallery. I also hope you will take a few minutes to click on a few of the links from other participants. Thursday Doors draws doors from around the world and often includes history, facts, trivia and poetry from the talented people who join us each week. Finally, if you are in the U.S. I hope you enjoy what I suspect will be a long holiday weekend.
There are a few more images than usual today because some help tell the story.
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