Tag: Historical reenactment

It’s time to Muster the Minutemen

April 14, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Every year on the day before Patriot’s Day, Captain William Smith rouses the Lincoln Minutemen to alert them that the British Regulars are marching on Concord. This is the night in history when Paul Revere was captured on the outskirts of Lincoln and several brave men took over his mission: to prepare the local resistance […]

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The midnight ride of Paul Revere

April 21, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

April 18th is famous in Massachusetts as the day that Paul Revere rode to raise the alarm that the British were marching to Concord to seize the Militia’s cache of weapons. Almost every school child has hear the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of […]

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