Woke Old North Church Concerned That Many People Planning To Visit Don’t Know Why It’s Famous

Forty percent of people who had decided or were close to deciding to visit Old North Church last year didn't know why it's famous, according to a survey of visitors the church took. Even The Boston Globe stumbled on that point in a feature about the church published Monday, January 16, claiming that the two lanterns held in the steeple the night before the American Revolution began "launched [Paul] Revere on his 1775 ride toward Lexington and Concord …"

Forty percent of people who had decided or were close to deciding to visit Old North Church last year didn't know why it's famous, according to a survey of visitors the church took. Even The Boston Globe stumbled on that point in a feature about the church published Monday, January 16, claiming that the two lanterns held in the steeple the night before the American Revolution began "launched [Paul] Revere on his 1775 ride toward Lexington and Concord …"…