Great Road
Bedford, Mass.
This statue, titled The Patriot, represents a Bedford Militia Man carrying the famous Bedford Flag into battle, presumably on 19 April 1775. (The Bedford flag was a battle flag made for the Bedford Militia in the early 18th century). According to popular tradition, the flag was carried by Minute Man Nathaniel Page to the Concord North Bridge where the Bedford Minute Men saw action against British Regulars on that date.The statue, made by sculptor Bruce Papitto, was commissioned by the Bedford Cultural Council and was erected in the year 2000. It can be found in a park diagonally across from the Bedford Post Office located at 158 Great Road Bedford, Mass.
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I lived in Bedford, MA on Anthony Road from 1989-2018. I was at the Installation Ceremony for The Bedford Patriot Statue. I think that it was in the Spring. April? The Sculptor, Bruce Pappitto was probably just starting his career as I remember his daughters being very young and wearing little white sweaters to the ceremony. A couple of hours after the ceremony my husband Gunnar and I met Bruce and his wife, Jan VanSteenwijk and his wife Barbara Hitchcock at Dahlia's Restaurant (next to Bedford Farms Ice Cream)for dinner.
Laura Larsson, Williamsburg, VA, April 28, 2020
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