The  Rainbow Flag  fills Main Street as it is carried through Concord Center during  ConcordPride Fest on Saturday, June 7, 2025.  This is the second year the town has held the family-friendly event designed to uplift and celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community.  Ken McGagh/The Concord Bridge 

A lantern-light procession goes by the Minute Man statue before a recitation of the names of soldiers from both sides who gave their lives on April 19, 1775, during the eighth annual Patriot Vigil at Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, April 17, 2025. The path from the North Bridge Visitor Center to the North Bridge  was lighted with luminaries to honor those who lost their lives that day.

The Concord Indepenent Battery fires a cannon salute from one of its 6-pounder artillery pieces during Patriots’ Day observances in Concord, Massachusetts on April 19, 2025.  Founded in 1804, the ceremonial unit  is the oldest horse-drawn field artillery in the country and is run  entirely by volunteers.

A military flyover of two  Air Force F-15’s and an Air Force  tanker plane fly over Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, Massachusetts,  as Revolutionary War re-enactors Gary Babin and Dan Robson of the 6th Middlesex Regiment stand at attention at the conclusion of the  Patriots’ Day ceremony in honor of the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War,  in Concord, Massachusetts on Saturday, April 19th,  2025. 

Dr. Samuel Prescott re-eanctor Frank D. Braford II rides a  horse across North Bridge during the Patriots’ Day Dawn Salute at Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, April 19, 2025. Dr. Prescott was the only rider to reach Concord to warn of the advancing British troops during Paul Revere’s midnight ride.  

Attendees sing “God Bless America” after the Grand March Promenade at the conclusion of  the 2025 Patriots’ Ball at the Concord Armory in Concord, Massachusetts on Saturday, April 12, 2025.  The party  made a comeback  in 2025 in honor of the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution.  

Richard Fahlander of Concord-based Art for All, left, speaks to a crowd gathered on the Concord Museum lawn as Liviana Stevens, 11, holds an LED torch after the ceremonial lighting of the Concord250 Lantern  on Sunday, March 23, 2025.    The  10-foot tall lantern commemorates  the lanterns in the steeple of North Church in Boston that Paul Revere and others used to signal the movement of British troops on April 19, 1775.  Liviana, of Littleton, also sang the national anthem at the ceremony. She is the granddaughter of Priscilla and Jonathan Stevens of Concord.  Ken McGagh/The Concord Bridge 

James Kennedy, a great-grandson of Ethel Kennedy and the son Joseph P. Kennedy III, sits in the back of a limousine following  the funeral mass of Ethel Kennedy, a long-time human rights advocate who endured a series of tragedies that included the assassination of her husband, Robert F. Kennedy,  at Our Lady of Victory church in Barnstable, Massachusetts, on October, 14, 2024. The Kennedy matriarch left behind nine children, 34 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren. Ken McGagh photo for Reuters 

The Marquis de Lafayette, as portrayed by Lafayette re-enactor Ben Goldman, tips his stovepipe hat as approaches Concord Center for his return visit to Concord, Monday, September 2, 2024. On September 2, 1824, the Marquis visited Concord as part of his Farewell Tour of the the United States.   Ken McGagh/The Concord Bridge

Revolutionary War re-enactors from the Concord Minute Men, Acton MInutemen and 6th Middlesex Regiment fire a musket volley to start a parade from the Concord Museum to Monument Square during Concord250’s “250 Days to the 250th:Community Kickoff”, Sunday, August 11, 2024.  The event marked the 250 day countdown to next year’s 250th anniversary of April 19, 1775.   Ken McGagh for The Concord Bridge

Tennis great Roger Federer of Switzerland holds a tennis racket as he speaks to students during commencement ceremonies at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S. June 9, 2024.    REUTERS/Ken McGagh

The Concord Minute Men fire a musket volley near Old North Bridge during the annual Dawn Salute, April 19, 2024. The ceremony is held every year on April 19th to mark the outbreak of armed conflict between British Regulars and Colonial militia on  April 19, 1775, the date considered to be the dawn of the American Revolution.   Ken McGagh for The Concord Bridge 

The Concord Minute Men stand attention as the sun rises at Old North Bridge during the annual Dawn Salute, April 19, 2024.   The ceremony is  held every year on April 19th to mark the outbreak of armed conflict between British Regulars and Colonial militia on  April 19, 1775, the date considered to be the dawn of the American Revolution.   Ken McGagh for The Concord Bridge 

Portraying a British officer in the 10th Regiment of Foot, Paul O’Shaughnessy of Lexington recites the names of British war dead  from the eventes of  April 19, 1775, during the seventh annual Patriot Vigil at Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, April 18, 2024.  Ken McGagh for The Concord Bridge 

Shane Clarke of Concord, right, and Tammy Rose of Waltham take part in a  lantern-light procession in memory of soldiers who gave their lives on April 19, 1775,  during the seventh annual Patriot Vigil at Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, April 18, 2024.  Ken McGagh for The Concord Bridge 

Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton puts her arm around  Hazel Dukes after presenting Dukes with  the Spingarn Medal, the NCAAP’s  highest honor,  at the closing  of the 114th NAACP National Convention at the Boston Convention Center, August 14, 2023.  

Re-enactors of the Civil War era all-Black Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry Regiment, right, march to the grave of George Washington Dugan, a Concord farmer and private in the 54th who gave his life during  the storming of Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in 1863, during a dedication ceremony at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery on Saturday, July 15, 2023.  At left is the modern-day National Guard 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment,  a ceremonial unit named for the Civil War era 54th.  The regiment was memorialized in the 1989 film, “Glory.” 

Ken McGagh for The Concord Bridge

Graduates toss their mortarboards to the sky at the conclusion of commencement exercises at Concord-Carlisle High School, June 3, 2023.  Ken McGagh for The Concord Bridge

Christian Donohue, 10,  of Natick,  stepson of Wayland firefighter Peter Regan, carries his father's helmet following Regan's burial service at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Natick, Nov. 10, 2010.  Regan, 43,  died from injuries sustained in an accident at home.  

Lilla Martell of Framingham kisses her son, Joseph, 14,  after her Ford Freestyle SUV rolled over following a two-car crash with another SUV on August 16, 2017. 

Natick firefighters stand by to put out hot spots as a downtown Natick business block lies in ruins on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 after an eight-alarm fire the previous night.

President Trump supporter Jessie Morgan of Nashua, New Hampshire, right, points her finger at counter protester Keilah Lopes, 17, of Natick and other Natick teenagers during a heated exchange between Trump supporters and a group of counter protesters on Natick Common on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. 

Motorists try to negotiate deep water on Rte. 9 west underneath an overpass in Framingham, Massachusetts,  as heavy rain from the remnants of Hurricane Florence  causes flash flooding,  on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018.  

Hopkinton firefighters prepare to put water on a sedan following a two-car crash with a SUV on Wood St. (Rte. 135) in Hopkinton June 21, 2017.  Two young children and their mother escaped the sedan before it caught fire.  

Janice Milley is overcome with grief as a plane carrying the body of her son,  Army Lt. Scott Milley of Sudbury, arrives at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford on Dec. 9, 2010. Lt. Milley, an Army Ranger, died in combat in Afghanistan. 

Bob Marriott, center, the father of murder victim Elizabeth Marriott, 19, hugs a family friend during candlelight vigil in memory of his daughter at the Bay State Commons in Westborough, Oct. 13, 2012.  

Weston resident Peter Keating says a prayer after helping to place 3,000 flags on the Weston Town Green in memory of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, on Sept. 11, 2014.  

A large box truck is righted after rolling over on the Mass Pike eastbound in Framingham during a blizzard on March 13, 2018.   

Amy Groves of Ashland holds a candle during a Vigil for Democracy, held on the first anniversary of the Jan 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, in downtown Framingham,  Massachusetts, Jan. 6, 2022. 

Jaime Alberts, center, a music teacher at the Bigelow Middle School, bangs a marching band drum during the Newton Teachers Association's protest of unresolved contract negotiations at City Hall Wednesday morning, August 28, 2019. 

A spectator gives the thumbs up as Beth Byrne and her 1959 Nash Metropolitan speed through Natick Center during a Fourth of July classic car tour on Saturday, July 4, 2020.

Bill Glennon of Quincy puts his hand on the casket of his uncle, 1st Lt. Joseph Finneran, a Needham native who was killed during World War II and whose remains were only recently identified,  at the George F. Doherty and Sons Funeral Home in Needham Saturday November 9 2019.

A lone jeep passes through downtown Natick in whiteout conditions as major winter storm kept most motorists off the streets on February 9, 2017. 

A tree worker from Connecticut is surrounded by snow-coated trees as he prepares to cut down branches resting on wires on Rte. 20 in Sudbury, Massachusetts,  following a major snowstorm, March 8, 2018.

Marlborough firefighter Rob Fadgen is silhouetted in the smoke and afternoon sun while putting water on a brush fire in the Marlborough-Sudbury State Forest, August 20, 2022. 

Sudbury firefighters try to resuscitate a house cat after it was found hiding in a closet during  a house fire at 589 Boston Post Road in Sudbury, Nov. 20, 2014.  The firefighters tried breathing apparatus and mouth-to-mouth but the cat died. 

A Boston Duck Tours amphibious vehicle ferries home residents of  Pelham Island Road in Wayland  after floodwaters from the Sudbury river made their neighborhood inaccessible on March 17, 2010.  

President Barack Obama walks to his limousine with Gov. Deval Patrick after a helicopter landing at Weston Middle School, June 11, 2014.    President Obama was in town for a private fundraiser.  

Opposing Framingham mayoral candidates John Stefanini, left, and Yvonne Spicer meet briefly to shake hands at the George King Elementary School polling station on election morning, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017.  Spicer won the election, making her Framingham's first mayor and the first African-American female elected mayor in Massachusetts. 

Kaia Calnan, 3,  is illuminated by sunlight coming in through the gym windows as her mother, Jillian Calnan, votes at Hopedale's Draper Gymnasium polling station on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020.

Firefighters put water on the smoldering ruins of a condo at The Villages on Oak Hill in Franklin, hours after an early-morning explosion and fire, on Saturday, October 10, 2015. Nancy and Richard Brown, both 66, the owners of the condo unit, died in the explosion. 

Firefighters roll a fuel tank away from a fire at The Tradesman, a well-known restaurant and bar on West Street in Milford, Feb. 13, 2021.  Despite the efforts of firefighters from multiple communities, the structure was a total loss.  

Serving as pallbearers, teammates of  Madeline “Maddie” Lamson carry her casket into St. Joseph’s Church in Medway for a funeral service Thursday, November 5, 2015. Lamson, 17, a three-sport athlete and senior at Medway High School, was killed in a car crash the previous  Friday night.