Continuing our celebration of Patriot’s Week, join Goodnow Library and Sudbury250 for an in-person event, interactive event as we dive into what the last few hours would have looked like before America changed forever.
Pete Abair, local author of the historical fiction, Each Hath a Hand: A Rebellion at Dawn, 1775, will discuss the varying perceptions and motivations of key participants in the Battles of Lexington and Concord, 250 years ago. As they slept the night before, few in Massachusetts would have imagined the outbreak of war the next day. For the British Regulars who marched out from Boston to the town militiamen who gathered on Lexington Green and at the North Bridge in Concord, there was nothing certain about the day ahead of them. It is a story of sympathetic characters on both sides and a tumultuous beginning for a new nation’s rise.
