I am sure most of the AS volunteers who are history fans have been geeked out with all of the stories reporting and celebrating the 250th Anniversary of April 19, 1775. I know I have been.
There are innumerable articles and posts about the events of April 18-19, 1775. There are simple narratives, videos of the reenactments, articles that are very detailed on specific subjects, and websites that followed the various activities in Boston, along Battle Road, back to Boston and even the beginning of the Siege of Boston.
I particularly enjoyed numerous social media posts by Emerging Revolutionary War, a group of historians who have written books on the War of Independence (Savas Beatie link below). They are the group that hosted the tour of Battle Road I went on in October. They are very knowledgeable, and even arranged for Alexander R. Cain to lead the tour of Lexington. Talk about detail! They recorded videos this past weekend from events in Boston, along Battle Road, and about the beginning of the Siege of Boston. (See links below.)
One of the stories I ran across this weekend is about Mary Munroe Sanderson. Mary was a cousin of William Monroe, owner of the tavern in Lexington that General Lord Hugh Percy took over as a headquarters while waiting for Colonel Francis Smith's bedraggled column to return. Her husband, Samuel, was a corporal in the Lexington Training Band. He was on Lexington Green when the massacre occurred. When Mary returned home from fleeing the British Regulars, she found a wounded Regular in her bed. Since the Regulars had ransacked her home killed their cow, and left very little, her attitude toward the wounded Regular was not "hospitable." From the article: "She said, 'The Satanish critters stole and destroyed everything in the house and didn't leave rags enough to dress the wounds of their own soldiers.'" In fact, she was so angry that the Regular insisted that her family members taste the food he was served before he would eat it. Mary lived to 105 and her photograph is in the article.
On the Freedom's Way website, there is a tab for "Freedom's Way 250." There are dozens of stories, many of which are relevant to the history we tell at Project Appleseed events. Some of the stories are in audio form. Among the story links are:
Abner Hosmer Powder Horn
Acton's Woodlawn Cemetery
Arlington Revolutionary War Monument
British Revolutionary War Soldiers' Grave Sites
Buckman Tavern
Concord's Old Hill Burying Ground
A number of stories on British Regular gravesites
Hannah Davis Leighton (Isaac Davis' wife)
Isaac Davis Monument (which is also the monument for Abner Hosmer and James Hayward)
Lantern (the surviving "Paul Revere" lantern)
Lexington Revolutionary War Monument
Prince Estabrook
Hancock-Clarke House
Jason Russell House
Munroe Tavern
Prudence Cummings Wright (memorialized on last years Project Appleseed t-shirts and patches)
Mary Munroe Sanderson
and many more.
https://freedomsway.org/freedomsway250/ (http://freedom's%20Way%20250)
Emerging Revolutionary War webpage (https://emergingrevolutionarywar.org)
Emerging Revolutionary War podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emerging-revolutionary-war/id1600006680)
https://www.facebook.com/emergingrevwar (http://emerging%20revolutionary%20war%20facebook%20page)
Emerging Revolutionary War YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@emergingrevolutionarywar8217) (they are going to be setting up a channel just for their video coverage of April 19, 2025)
Emerging Revolutionary War books (https://www.savasbeatie.com/american-revolution/emerging-revolutionary-war-series/)
Historical Nerdery website (https://www.historicalnerdery.com)
Historical Nerdery blogspot (https://historicalnerdery01.blogspot.com)
Historical Nerdery podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/historical-nerdery/id1562263003)
Alex Cain YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@alexcain7811)
Revolution 250 website (https://www.revolution250.org/)
Revolution 250 podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolution-250-podcast/id1532955215)
Revolution 250 Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Rev250)
I hope the coverage of the 250th Anniversary inspires all of our volunteers to reinvigorate our presentations of the Three Strikes of the Match, Dangerous Old Men, and Dangerous Dames.