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SUMMARY:Jan Scanlan presents "We Must Carry On!"
DESCRIPTION:As we get closer to the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence\, learn what our colonial Bradford counterparts would have been doing 250 years ago!  Massachusetts has been marking events wherein male revolutionaries dumped tea\, stood up to British intrusion\, and battled their way through an uncertain future.  What of the women and children?  How did they carry on while the male population was away (they marched to Cambridge following the alarm from Lexington 4/19/1775)?  What activities had to be substituted?  How did families support each other and their communities?  Were their lives overcome by responsibility or was there time for recreation?  This all ages event allows participants to interact with items familiar to those of revolutionary Bradford (as Groveland was until 1850). \nJan is an educator and historical interpreter with the Danvers Alarm List Company\, a not-for-profit that recreates the Danvers Militia and Alarm Company that responded to the call out of Lexington\, Massachusetts on 19 April 1775.  Among these responding members was Rebecca Nurse’s great-grandson Francis; he is buried onsite.  Danvers Alarm List Company owns and operates the Rebecca Nurse Homestead\, a seventeenth-century house museum honoring the memory of 1692 “witchcraft” victim Rebecca Nurse. \nThis program is part of the Revolutionary Library Crawl.  Information on the Revolutionary Library Crawl available here:\nhttps://hwlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Revolutionary-Library-Crawl-Passport.pdf
URL:https://massachusetts250.org/event/jan-scanlan-presents-we-must-carry-on/
LOCATION:Langley-Adams Library\, Main Street 185\, Groveland\, MA\, 01834\, United States
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