Wednesday, March 17, 2004 :::
Today is Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. That's the county that includes Boston (though not Cambridge). This is by legislative decree -- much of what the legislature does is, at least by analogy, vaguely scatological, so I have my own explanation of what "evacuation" refers to.
Officially, however, Evacuation Day commemorates the day in -- I believe -- 1777, when the British troops were forced to "evacuate" from Boston. Pretty much everyone knows that the real reason the legislature created the holiday is because they weren't quite shameless enough to take Saint Patrick's Day. The notion that they're excited about celebrating the British evacuation of Boston is bull-[expletive deleted], which goes back to my interpretation of "evacuation".
::: posted by Steven at 7:56 AM
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