2006 Bedford Pole Capping Ceremony

"Yearly on the second Saturday in April, the Bedford Minuteman Company, with the assistance and participation of an ever-increasing number of Minuteman Companies of the area conduct the practice of raising at Wilson Park, a pole capped with a knitted red cap...The Liberty Pole started with a tree not a pole in 1765, by a group of American Colonials in Boston. The Sons of Liberty as they became known to be called, would meet at the base of a large elm tree at the juncture of Washington and Essex streets in Boston. From the trunk of the tree was fastened a pole which rose far above the topmost branch, and a red flag floated from it as an understood signal to call together the fearless members of the organization." For more information regarding the ceremony, please go here: http://www.bedfordminutemancompany.org/PoleCapping

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Google Video | April 9, 2006

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