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This column is a re-run from 2019. 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.
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So begins Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” about the famous midnight gallop that happened 248 years ago. The poem was first published in The Atlantic Monthly on January 1861, and I dutifully learned the first lines as a young student.
BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF
As a result, every April 18 I think of Paul Revere.
Who, exactly was Paul Revere?
I know that he was a talented silversmith because I have seen some of his work, starting with teapots and engravings, at antique shows. I