Come bellringing!
Feb. 28th, 2024 06:58 amI wrote this in a comment to a friend, but I am realizing that it is an open invitation, to any of my folks in or visiting the Boston area:
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If you are okay with stairs, you should come with me to bellringing some Saturday and hang out inside the Old North Church while we're doing our thing. If you're okay with weird stairs, you could even come up to the belfry where we have a little platform eighteen inches above the bells, where you can press ear protectors to your head and revel in the cacophony of something louder and larger than yourself.
(If you're okay with ladders, then maybe after practice we can go all the way up the steeple and you can get the views of the North End that no one else ever gets).
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I'm also happy to talk about bellringing as a hobby and actually trying it out, but damn, visiting and getting to see the things that the tourists don't get to see is _cool_ and I'd love to have you join sometime.
(We are a very covid-cautious group. Masks required if the windows are closed and/or the wastewater levels have been above 500 bobcat-robots1. We usually do lunch on the greenway after, unless the weather is truly horrid. 11:15-1:15.)
~Sor
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choco_frosh made up.
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If you are okay with stairs, you should come with me to bellringing some Saturday and hang out inside the Old North Church while we're doing our thing. If you're okay with weird stairs, you could even come up to the belfry where we have a little platform eighteen inches above the bells, where you can press ear protectors to your head and revel in the cacophony of something louder and larger than yourself.
(If you're okay with ladders, then maybe after practice we can go all the way up the steeple and you can get the views of the North End that no one else ever gets).
***
I'm also happy to talk about bellringing as a hobby and actually trying it out, but damn, visiting and getting to see the things that the tourists don't get to see is _cool_ and I'd love to have you join sometime.
(We are a very covid-cautious group. Masks required if the windows are closed and/or the wastewater levels have been above 500 bobcat-robots1. We usually do lunch on the greenway after, unless the weather is truly horrid. 11:15-1:15.)
~Sor
1: There is not a good unit measurement, so this is the one
choco_frosh made up.