On May 31-June 2, 2022, board member Bryan Cheeseboro traveled with members of Company B, 54th Massachusetts reenactors, to participated in the rededication ceremony of the Shaw/54th Massachusetts Memorial in Boston.
Bryan planned to do four things on the trip- the rededication ceremony;
a game at Fenway Park,
One of the ushers showed off his 2018 World Series Championship ring.
A visit to the site of Camp Meigs, where 28 Civil War regiments trained, including the 54th Massachusetts.
And to see the statue of Cy Young and where home plate was for the Huntington Avenue Grounds (now the campus of Northeastern University), the ballpark that preceded Fenway
Brian also paid a visit to the Old Massachusetts State House, which is the site of where the Boston Massacre occurred 252 years ago;
Robert Gould Shaw's home on 44 Beacon Street. The balcony of the home is where Shaw's parents watched him march off to war, as depicted in the movie Glory. Sadly, they never saw him again, as he was killed on July 18, 1863, in the battle of Second Fort Wagner.
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