Old North Church Projections
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The Old North Church in Boston offered a traditional Lantern Service on April 18, 2025 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the famous signal from the church's steeple on the eve of the American Revolution began. Noted historian and author Heather Cox Richardson was the keynote speaker.
Outside, images projected on the building beneath the steeple cycled through a series of messages in period lettering, such as "One if by land, two if by D.C.," an effort attributed to a group called Silence Dogood. Adopting a pen name used by Benjamin Franklin to write about tyranny, the grassroots group has recently projected messaging on historic buildings as a form of public art to "remind people of Boston's long history of protest and resistance."