Re: brief mention of ON bells on Rachel Maddow

[Alison Miller <millerab gmail com>]

Also, https://www.letfreedomring.live/media now has a second post from
Kalamazoo (also by "Professor emeritus", who I assume is John Fink):

Warmest greetings to the tower at Old North from Benjamin, Soren, Will, and
> John.


Thought I'd pass it on!
Alison

On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM Alison Miller <millerab gmail com> wrote:

> (also a bunch of Unitarian Universalist churches, which does not surprise
> me as we're the ones most likely to arrange something last-minute on Good
> Friday because we heard about it on Rachel Maddow :-D)
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM Alison Miller <millerab gmail com> wrote:
>
>> https://www.letfreedomring.live/media has reports and videos from the
>> other churches/towers/individuals that rang their bells in solidarity 
>> last
>> night.  Includes Stetson Chapel, Kalamazoo, and St. Luke's, Atlanta 
>> (with a
>> short video of call changes on 4).
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM Alison Miller <millerab gmail com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I see that the Maddow clip includes the link to
>>> https://www.letfreedomring.live/, so this does appear to be an
>>> organized thing.
>>>
>>> Alison
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM Laura Dickerson via
>>> Boston-change-ringers <boston-change-ringers cosmos phy tufts edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>      Sarah M let me know that Rachel Maddow featured ON.
>>>> https://youtu.be/C6TymJwvuP0?feature=shared
>>>> There is the background for the history and the anniversary at the
>>>> beginning of the show, and then slightly after 3 minutes in, there is
>>>> mention of our ringing.  She said that there will be ringing across 
>>>> the
>>>> country at the same time. I didn't know about that. We (via the church
>>>> office) were requested to do some special ringing tomorrow, but maybe 
>>>> this
>>>> is a bigger organization than the person who originally wrote to us?  
>>>> At
>>>> any rate our commemorative ringing will be at 6-7 PM tonight, before 
>>>> the
>>>> lantern service, which will be livestreamed. Link here:
>>>> https://vimeo.com/event/5056560
>>>>
>>>>     Maddow also talked about the 19th as a day of protests. I can't
>>>> find much mention of an on-foot protest tomorrow in Boston.  They are
>>>> happening in Worcester and Hyannis, for example.  There will be 
>>>> Lexington
>>>> residents protesting a couple of times tomorrow but I'll be in Boston 
>>>> for
>>>> practice and I was too disorganized to order one of the nice "No King 
>>>>  No
>>>> Tyranny" signs to hold.
>>>>      I specified nothing on foot because I found this
>>>> bike ride from the North End to Lexington partly along the Minuteman
>>>> Bikeway
>>>> https://events.pol-rev.com/events/0d9c4e6e-4f94-481d-aecf-4be886965b56
>>>> I know nothing about it but that.  I'm not involved in any way.
>>>>
>>>> Laura Dickerson
>>>>
>>>> PS the regulars are out
>>>>
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