The Commander's Intent for this project says the goal is to reveal the human continuity between past and present. Where my eye goes is the seam between the two — the place where the eighteenth century and the twenty-first are pressed together hard enough that you can see the join.

Most photographers at these events are shooting the reenactment. I've gotten more interested in the collision.

Over the past several years I’ve had another running project focused (literally) on hands and the work they do. It was only natural that during my Rev250 project my eye would be drawn to reenactors’ hands performing 18^th-century activities. These frames run from Lexington to Old Sturbridge Village and I’m sure there will be more in the weeks to come.

The Village interprets the years 1790 to 1840, and its living history program is built around the 1830s. This is a world on the cusp of the industrial revolution, a rural economy tilting toward industry — a world that arrived a full half-century after Lexington Green. The museum opened in 1946 and now covers more than two hundred acres, with roughly forty antique buildings relocated from towns across New England and upstate New York, three water-powered mills, and a working farm.

Nothing about that description is Revolutionary. The men who fought at Concord would have been old men here, if they were alive at all.