Show redcoats on the run that april morn one of the most venerated shrines in the united states lies at the remote end of a cul de sac leading from monument street and perhaps a trifle more than a mile from the center of the town of concord mass time was afien this was not a cul de sac but a highway that ex tended from what th enthat Is in 1775 was called great meadows road across the concord river where it blanched one fork connecting with the highway near the buttrick home and the other intersecting tha lowall road near colonel barrens place the connecting link between the two shores of the sluggish stream wag known as the north bridge and eo it Is today this road without an exit Is not more than feet in length and shaded from end to end by trees of dignity size and nace the first object that strikes ones vision Is a simple shaft of white marble insignificant to these days of massive things beyond Is a bridge of concrete fashioned as though made by some primitive builder who sought strength rather than beauty a pal pable effort to suggest the possible appearance of its remote predecessor and on the yon side of the bridge stands a monument in brone heroic in size of a minute man answering the cala of bis fellow patriots acre was fired the shot heard round the world and despite the fact that the first encounter of 1 aleut leut col francis smiths men with lie rebellious bel lious colonists was at I 1 the battle of the horab bridge Is regarded as the of the ar of the and to tills sacred spot come thousands of pilgrims each yenn oddly enough his wis not alnas a mecca there was a lime when it was a neglected hit of terrain the highway and been changed alie old orth bridge remove I 1 and lie thor froia meadows road EW i |