Christopher Martell
So cool that @[email protected] students were part of this! Also, did not know, but love this student protest story: "In 1968, the cod was stolen again, this time by @[email protected] students who wanted more legislative attention for the institution." https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/11/metro/this-fish-swims-upstream-sacred-cod-is-carried-once-again-old-state-house-beacon-hill/
This fish swims upstream: Sacred Cod is carried once again from Old State House to Beacon Hill

In a festive march to fifes and drums, a replica of the wooden Sacred Cod that hangs above the Massachusetts House of Representatives was borne to Beacon Hill from the Old State House in a re-creation of its move there 225 years ago Wednesday.

The Boston Globe
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Show threadRebecca M. TownsendJan 13, 2023
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"Humble the subject and homely the design, yet this painted image bears on its finny front a majesty greater than the dignity that art can lend to graven gold or chiseled marble,” the lawmakers wrote. “The lessons that may be learned of it are nobler than any to be drawn from what is beautiful, for this sedate and solitary fish is instinct with memories and prophecy, like an oracle. ..."
Show threadRebecca M. TownsendJan 13, 2023

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...It typifies to the citizens of the Commonwealth and of the world the founding of a state It commemorates democracy. It celebrates the rise of free institutions. It emphasizes progress. It epitomizes Massachusetts"

What a wonderful tradition.

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