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Ruth Ann Murray

Ruth Ann Murray

Ruth Ann Murray, PhD, is an American Historian and higher education administrator who has held administrative positions at Boston University, Northeastern University, and Tufts University.  She currently teaches history part-time for Southern New Hampshire University.

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Patriots

A Patriot’s Pilgrimage

March 15, 2024
Ruth Ann Murray
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Each year in April, scores of marchers, many dressed in colonial garb, make their way on foot from several towns in central Massachusetts to the Old North Bridge in Concord. These men, women, and children walk  in the footsteps of the American colonists who made this journey on the same morning in April over two centuries ago. 


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