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Recently BGES completed a survey study of the American Revolution with Ed Bearss, Seven programs in 3 years.  Our experience left many people wanting a more detailed study and we are pleased to offer it in the first of two programs this year.  Others are already on the books for the out years.  This program focuses on the key port of Boston.

No person can understand any of the issues that followed until you understand Boston—its people and its livelihood.  Stripped of its dignity as Englishmen, radical elements had caused untold grief for the King, his royal governor and his generals.  With tensions high, every move of the hated “Lobster backs” was watch and reported until one evening rumor of a series of British troop movements designed to capture key rebel leaders and remove powder and weapons from the royal magazines, became reality.

Alarms were raised and men such as Paul Revere and William Dawes sped into the night to raise the militia.  What followed is often mischaracterized and only generally understood through the lyrical rhymes of Longfellow as he waxes poetic about “The Midnight ride of Paul Revere.”  You will examine and discuss it up close and personal on the sites where they actually happened and will put your fingers in bullet holes now 235 years old.  I promise a cold chill and shiver down your spine as you look at the heroic statue of the Minuteman at Old North Bridge.  Click here for more details and registration information.