The re-enactment in the Boston suburbs always seems to end with the evil redcoats being chased back to town by the glorious revolutionaries. It is pretty interesting (if not a rainy day); a continuous event that spans a dozen miles northwest of Boston to Concord, ending up at the Old North Bridge where, a couple of decades later, the Emerson/Alcott/Thoreau community lived.

A friend of mine was in one of the militia troops that had a small cannon used in the re-enactment. The big deal with them was in the weeks running up to the event, when they would all get drunk and shoot the thing off in his back yard. That would be going on right about now, I would guess...

http://www.battleroad.org/