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The Canon by Gertrude Gardener, bunny dragon, rongo rongo

July 8th, 2008 10:31 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Make an improvement/amendment to a canon.

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Make an improvement/amendment to a cannon.

During the Revolutionary War, the colonists had four brass cannons (which they had stolen from the Loyalist led local artillery company). Two were captured by the British during the war, but the other two have survived to this day and are displayed at the Bunker Hill Memorial and the Minute Man National Historic Park. Since these are probably some of the oldest, most traditional cannons in the US, (and are conveniently located around Boston), they were my targets for improvement/amendment.

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real and simulated

Here are my two paper tissue poppy wreaths, next to some real red Icelandic poppies.

just a minute

You can't get very far around Boston without running into a bunch of Minutemen

Freedom Trail

Boston has a red line marking the Freedom Trail which you can follow around town to see historic sites, including the Bunker Hill Monument

Bunker Hill Monument

The cannon is located at the top of 291 steps

stairs

The stairs spiral all the way up, full of hot, sweaty tourists, huffing and puffing past each other in the dimly lit, narrow passage.

wreathed

Even though poppies are associated with a later war, I figured a colorful wreath would improve this Revolutionary War cannon.

cannon

Here's one cannon, decorated. (The hole in the cannon was the result of a post-war accident.)

view

Bunker Hill, along with many other hills around Boston, was completely flattened and the dirt used to make landfill. The coastline has grown outward quite a bit since the Revolutionary war.

companion cannon

This twin cannon is in a park in Concord. Although it has been protected from the grubby fingers of visitors, it didn't actually look that much more well preserved than the one at the top of the monument.