George K. Regan Jr. Reflects on Queen Elizabeth II’s Historic 1976 Boston Visit That Revived a City’s Spirit

Our founder and CEO, George K. Regan Jr., penned a remembrance of a pivotal day in Boston history in today’s Sunday Herald. George, who served as the city’s communications director under former Mayor Kevin White, had a unique vantage point to the July 11, 1976 visit to Boston by Queen Elizabeth II. The visit — the first ever by a British monarch to Boston, coming during the city’s Bicentennial celebration of the revolution against her country — helped restore a city’s flagging spirit, George recalls. 

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