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Salt Pond Visitor Center – Cape Cod National Seashore If he were still with us Congressman and Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill would be celebratintg his 100th birthday on December 9, 2012! To celebrate this milestone, the Massachusetts delegation wants the Salt Pond Visitor’s Center at the Cape Cod National Seashore…
Read More »Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote “Concord Hymn” in 1836 for the dedication of the Obelisk, a battle monument in Concord, Massachusetts that commemorates the men that gave their lives at the Battle of Concord fought on April 19, 1775. It was the first battle of the American Revolution. Emerson’s poem became…
Read More »In one of those coincidences of timing that make history such a fascinating topic, volunteer soldiers from Middlesex County who just days before were farmers and mill workers were the first to be killed by enemy fire in the American Revolution (on Lexington Green on April 19, 1775) and in…
Read More »This past Sunday, a collection of photos taken by Tony Sampas of Lowell Civil War monuments and scenes opened at the Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center at 40 French Street in Lowell. Information about the Mogan Center is here and the exhibit may be viewed during the operating hours of…
Read More »Around 10PM on the evening of April 18, 1775 Paul Revere and Williams Dawes set out on horse to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that British troops were moving on Concord. On April 19, positioned on Lexington Green rebel farmers fired “the shot heard around the world”.…
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