town crier

Finally, the Bidens ended up at Nantucket’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony, clapping as the town crier led the countdown and the tree was illuminated with colored lights.

Seven years ago I profiled him in a column that said that due to rising temperatures, his glacier project had turned him into a sort of “town crier of decline.”

The day begins with an old-fashioned parade, complete with a town crier.

Avedon wanted not only to detect the pulse, with a physician’s intimate solicitude, but also to amplify and announce it, like a town crier.

A more ominous sound that echoed in his memory was that of the town crier, beating a drum in 1939 to announce that France was at war with Germany.