Happy Independence Day!

We wish everyone a happy and safe holiday today – The Somerville News will be on the streets on Wednesday as usual.  We have had many requests over the past few weeks for additional distribution points across the city – if you don’t see the paper somewhere that would be convenient for you, then give us a call or send us an email and we will add it to the 150+ locations we have now.

Let us all take time from our busy schedules to look back on our nation’s history with pride and honor – and remember the events that took place which allow us as citizens (and some non-citizens) to enjoy the liberties we seem so eager to take advantage of these days.

  Concord Hymn – Ralph Waldo Emerson at the dedication of the Obelisk,1837

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,

Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled;

Here once the embattled farmers stood;

And fired the shot heard round the world.

The foe long since in silence slept;

Alike the conqueror silent sleeps,

And Time the ruined bridge has swept

Down the dark stream that seaward creeps.

On this green bank, by this soft stream,

We place with joy a votive stone,

That memory may their deeds redeem,

When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

O Thou who made those heroes dare

To die, and leave their children free, —

Bid Time and Nature gently spare

The shaft we raised to them and Thee.

From Prospect Hill Publishing, the Editor and Staff of The Somerville News