Sudbury 250 Committee finalizes Saturday logistics and approves logo request

250 Committee · Meeting of May 13, 2026

Sudbury 250 Committee locks down final logistics for Saturday's town-wide commemoration. At the May 13 meeting, members walked through the town-center triangle layout, with John Riegel asking that the fife and drum's modern pop-up tent be kept away from the Minute Man encampment because it "looks bad, doesn't look historical at all," and proposing that children be run through musket drills every half hour using a dozen wooden muskets. The committee agreed volunteers, not bus drivers, would hand out Sudbury 250 pins as riders board shuttles from Nixon School and Lincoln-Sudbury.

Members backed a $400 honorarium for Professor Daniel Mandel, matching what Acton paid, and agreed the First Parish bell would toll 21 times to close the Declaring Independence program. The committee unanimously approved April 29 minutes and set a tentative June 17 follow-up.

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Source: the 250 Committee meeting of May 13, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.