Winter is often a quiet season at Minute Man National Historical Park, but this year history came to life through a series of engaging community events.
The Hive: A Symposium for Living History Interpreters welcomed nearly 200 reenactors, educators, and living history interpreters for a weekend of learning at the Massachusetts National Guard Museum. Even a winter snowstorm couldn’t slow us down—when Sunday’s weather worsened, we moved the presentations to Zoom so the learning could continue.
Knox’s Noble Train of Artillery 250th Anniversary brought our friends from Fort Ticonderoga to the park to commemorate the remarkable winter journey that transported vital artillery from New York to Boston in 1776. At Hartwell Tavern, visitors gathered around bonfires, met the oxen that carried the cannon, and learned about colonial cooking from reenactors. Photos courtesy of Maia Kennedy Photography.
Winter Lecture Series. Thanks to our hosts at the Concord Free Public Library, two outstanding programs drew enthusiastic audiences. Joel Bohy presented “Bullet Strikes From the First Day of the American Revolution,” while Michele Gabrielson brought history to life in a first-person portrayal of Mercy Otis Warren in “American Calliope: Mercy Otis Warren and the Writings of a Revolutionary.”