Today is Presidents Day — Even so …

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Today’s Monday National Holiday was established to honor Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as their birthdays fall in February.

Then somewhat tangentially this holiday later came to also honor other American presidents.

This expanded honoring of past presents has especially been the case in Quincy where during the days when Quincy was still a part of a larger Braintree, Presidents John Hancock, John Adams, and John Quincy Adams were all born in olde Braintree, not to mention that in the beginning of the colonial era Quincy was a part of Dorchester.

Dinasaurs in church?
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This year, however, dinosaurs inexplicably scored arguably higher billing at today’s Quincy Presidents’ Day Winterfest than all of the three Johns combined, not to mention that the dinosaurs’ act was staged in the church that John Adams paid for as well as where he is entombed in a crypt in the church’s basement with his beloved wife Abigail, son John Quincy, and his daughter in law Louisa.

Then again, what with Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch likely planning to ultimately spend north of a million dollars on Quincy 400 next year, even more such oh so very curious things are only reasonably to be expected.

Dinosaur show particulars, center foreground
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After all, no one loves spending taxpayers’ money of one sort or another on an event of his ultimately self-referential hosting.

So what also, apparently, for the the fact that Quincy was not established until 1792 when a northerly part of Braintree broke away from Braintree to form the then Town of Quincy, not to mention that Braintree itself was not incorporated until 1640. and thus further convoluting Mayor Koch’s call for a Quincy quatercentenary next year.

In short — as well as yet again, Only in Quincy© …

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