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Re: Availability on June 17th and/or July 4th?

Your subject says June 17 (which is a Tuesday), but your body text says
July 17.  Since Bunker Hill was June 17, I assume that is what you mean.

I am likely to be available that evening.

On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM Laura Dickerson via Boston-change-ringers <
boston-change-ringers cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:

>      Old North is hoping to go along with a National Park Service project
> to have ringing at 5 PM on July 17 in memory of the battle of Bunker Hill
> (yes, we can be precise and say it happened on Breed's Hill).
> That's a Tuesday.  Catherine Matthews from the historic site compared it
> to the ringing in August 2019 for the 400th anniversary of the middle
> passage, as she put it.  I reminded her that I had tolled by
> myself for that occasion (some AGM attendees rang at the Advent at the
> same time).  She is OK with the same thing for this time, so we don't 
> need
> a full band.  I may be out of town. My question is whether we can even 
> get
> one person to leave work early or whatever, plus another person in the 
> room
> to follow our vague safety rule about not ringing alone.  In 2019 I (to 
> my
> surprise) had a tourist come up to watch me, so technically I wasn't 
> alone
> then, either. He turned out to be well-behaved, not a hindrance.
>      Last year on the 4th of July we rang at Old North from 10-11 AM.
> They are organizing their program now and would like a yes or no about
> whether we can do that again. It's a good time for them. It worked out 
> for
> us as well.  I know that this year many people will be at camp or 
> otherwise
> out of town that day (it's a Friday).
>      Please let me know about either or both.
>
> Laura Dickerson
>
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