1776 - Paul Revere: Lighting the way

Join us to learn more about Paul Revere, the silversmith and patriot known for his midnight ride in 1775. Find out who Sybil Ludington was, and try your hand at making your own hand-dipped candle.

Please bring $2 to cover the cost of our supplies.

We'll be outside in a park pavilion - so wear your play clothes.

Paul Revere's Ride
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch
Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,—
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be.............