To Paul Revere by Claudia Sonea

Have you ever been to Boston? There is an historical monument and also a religious one, the Old North Church at 193 Salem Street. All history and literature lovers remember the verses from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem, "One if by land, and two if by sea" related to Paul Revere, an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution, who on April 18, 1775, together with Robert Newman and Captain John Pulling used the steeple of the church to warn to Charlestown Patriots across the Charles River about the movements of the British Army, thus preceding the Battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolution. The pair of incandescent lanterns that commemorates the signals of Revere's warning was replaced by compact fluorescents (lit only for Patriot's Day) and they might be replaced once more by the light-emitting diodes, known as LED, that are already installed to illuminate ceiling vaults. There are 18 strips of LEDs that illuminate graceful the white ceiling. Ed Pignone, executive director of the Old North Foundation of Boston and the visitors of the church agreed that all the work was done with extreme carefulness, thus the LED donated by Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions doesn't spoil the historical monument that is more like a living proof of what once had happened. For the time been LEDs are more expensive than fluorescents, but they are more efficient, converting electricity directly into light. It will be something futuristic and the church really needed the improvements and that is why they reanalyzing its state and what needs to be done to restore it. If you pass by, don't be indifferent try to help with even a small amount to something that counts so much for you as individual. George Orwell says in '1984' that whoever owns the past, holds the future, you could be that one.

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by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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