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The first year we began homeschooling our two younger kids, they were both in Middle School. W e went on a field trip to this farm! They had two guys, one dressed as "Tommy Lobster", and the other as a Colonial 'Minuteman". They gave us a demonstration of the weapons used; firing and all.

It was during this field trip that I learned that it wasn't Paul Revere who sounded the alarm in Concord, because he never made it there. Just outside of Lexington, Revere and two other men were riding toward Concord, when they came upon some British Regulars. One of the riders managed to get away before they were seen, but Revere and the other man were stopped. Neither were armed, so the British only held them for a couple of hours. Then the British continued their march on to Lexington and Concord, and Revere and the other man rode hard up to Bedford to warn the milita that "the Regulars were coming".

We finished this field trip to the "Battle Road" in Concord, at the Old North Bridge, with the kids taking part in an interactive demonstration of what happened that day. Some of the kids read the actual words of some of the participants, and then they split them into two groups and had them run at each other, over the bridge. Our kids are in college now, but they still talk about that trip, and how much fun, and how interesting it was.