Forty percent of people who had decided or were close to deciding to visit Old North Church last year didn't know why it's famous, according to a survey of visitors the church took.
Even The Boston Globe stumbled on that point in a feature about the church published Monday, January 16, claiming that the two lanterns held in the steeple the night before the American Revolution began "launched [Paul] Revere on his 1775 ride toward Lexington and Concord …"
