At one point, almost all Americans remembered exactly where they were when President John F. Kennedy was shot Nov. 22, 1963, 60 years ago today. There are now diminishingly few people who remember that day directly. But it turns out that the phenomenon of a “flashbulb memory” is not that reliable, anyways.
I was 3 years and 10 months old and I was on a tire swing by a country house after my parents car broke down and they called the nearest gas station and the attendance said JFK was dead.
Battle Road Trail, Minute Man National Historic Park - This 5 1/2 mile pathway for walking, bicycle, or wheelchair follows a part of the route taken by the British Regulars on their march from Boston to Concord and back. The trail parallels route 2A in Lexington, Lincoln, and Concord and Lexington Road in Concord. Along the trail are historic houses, farmlands, wetlands, and fields. Highlights include the the Bloody Angle where the Battle Road made sharp turns providing ambush points for the colonists, the site of Paul Revere's capture during his famous ride, the restored 18th-century house of Captain William Smith of the Lincoln Minute Men, and the Ephraim Hartwell Tavern (now an interpretive site) where travelers were offered bed and board.
It was right here I was then.
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