Shot heard 'round the world, re-enacted

"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."

Opening lines of the poem, "Paul Revere's Ride," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Today Ralph and I went to a re-enactment of what happened on the morning of April 19, 1775, when British soldiers (Redcoats) marched into Lexington, Mass. and the first shot of the Revolutionary War was fired on the Lexington Green. Paul Revere had announced the arrival of the British the night before, on his legendary horseback ride from Boston to Lexington.

The re-enactment was held on the picturesque Green in Milford, Ct.
A friend of mine, Christine, had told me about the event or else I would not have known about it. She is a docent at the Derby Historical Society, and was one of the women in colonial garb tending to the "fallen."
There were a lot of people there so it was hard to get photos without the "tourists" in them. Of course we were "tourists" too, so I guess I shouldn't complain!

Here's Christine chatting with Ralph about how in Colonial times the city of Derby, Ct. was pronounced "Darby." She told me she makes her own colonial costumes. That kind of sewing ability amazes me. I have no patience for that kind of work, safe to say.

The whole event lasted less than a half hour, but it was fun to get out on a beautiful spring morning and do something out of the ordinary.

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On our way back to the van, I spotted this duck sunning himself at the Milford Duck Pond. He looks like he was enjoying the warm weather as well.